Exploring Creativity
with a Reflexive Lens
Jb Labrune - MIT Media Lab - 11172008
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Creativity
Divergent, Different
New,
Meaningful, Convergent, Appropriate
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Paul Cox @ Pompidou
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Paul Cox @ Pompidou
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Paul Cox @ Pompidou
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(( Lego vs Linka ))
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Creative Epistemology
Labrune’s Phd, INRIA, CNRS 2007
Peer-to-peer Data Collection
Identify Point of Interest
Co-exploration
Tangicam, 2005 Sketchcam, 2006 Videocube, 2004
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Peer-to-peer Data Collection
Tangicam: Tangible Camera
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Capturing Point-of-Interest
Sketchcam
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Co-Exploration Tools
Metalogue
Exaptation
Intersubjective, Joint Attention
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Exploring Creativity
Manifesting a complex phenomenon
Promote human metalogue Morphogenesis
Celebrate subjectivity
Identify Exaptations Schizogenesis
Reflect on Adaptations Semiogenesis
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Agenda
A. What is an Appropriate Scientific
Framework to study Creativity ?
B. Subjective Expressions
C. Exaptation
D. Creativity Research Tools
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A
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What Appropriate
Scientific Framework
to study Creativity ?
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Quantitative Qualitative
Complexity
Philosophy
Metaphysics
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A. Scientific Framework ?
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Quantitative
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Descartes | Rationalism
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Descartes | Metrics
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Descartes | Anatomy of a Rainbow, 1637
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Flammarion Woodcut
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Young Albert
Marie Curie + Henri Poincare
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A. Scientific Framework ?
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Qualitative
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Margaret Mead | Samoa
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Piaget & Inhelder
D.W. Winicott
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A. Scientific Framework ?
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Complexity
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Bateson at Naropa, 1975
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Always, the process of
representation will filter it out so
that the mental world is only
maps of maps, ad infinitum.
Gregory Bateson
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Subjective Intersubjective
Dialogue Metalogue
Gregory Bateson
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A. Scientific Framework ?
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Philosophy
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Husserl talking to Heidegger
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A. Scientific Framework ?
(
Metaphysics
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The Face of the Other
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Emmanuel Levinas
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Objective
Subjective Intersubjective
Metasubjective
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B
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Subjective
Expressions
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B. Subjective Expressions
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Preliterate Scripts
Invented Doodles
Illegible Cave Paintings
Primal Children’s Drawing
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Tetsuro Matsuzawa Steven R. Kutcher
Child Chimp Insects
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B. Subjective Expressions
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Asemic Codexae
Voynich Manuscript
Aldaraia
Codex Seraphinianus
Codex Mendoza
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
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Voynich Manuscript
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Voynich Manuscript
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Codex Seraphinianus
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Codex Seraphinianus
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Henri Michaux
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Marcel Duchamp
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B. Subjective Expressions
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Invention vs
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Discovery
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Osho
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C
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Exaptation
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M.C. Escher
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Marcel Duchamp
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Marcel Duchamp
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C.H. Waddington
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C.H. Waddington
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C. Exaptation
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Adaptation vs Exaptation
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C. Exaptation
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Co-opted Adaptations
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc822/
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C. Exaptation
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Spandrels
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C. Exaptation
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Engineers vs Gardeners
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D
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Creativity Research
Tools (CRT)
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D. Creativity Research Tools
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Dimensions
Peer-to-peer Data Collection
Identify Point of Interest
Co-exploration
Goal: Manifesting Exaptations
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CRT & the Media Lab
Brainstorming
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CRT & the Media Lab
Hiroshi Ishii at MIT WindTunnel
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CRT & the Media Lab
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Thank You!
labrune@media.mit.edu
http://web.media.mit.edu/~labrune/
http://www.media.mit.edu/events/eventpage.php?event=talk-639
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