1. One Step to Creativity Judit Fehér Pigrims

2. What did we do that made this activity creative?
What’s this object?
What did we do that made this activity creative?

3. What’s this object?
We turned one object
into another object

4. What is creativity? What is creativitiy?
Creativity is transforming one thing into another.
Roger Von Oech
Creative thinking is ‘double-minded’ thinking that ‘operates on more than one plane’.
Arthur Koestler
What is creativity?

6. They ‘just’ connected things
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee
Robert William Kearns
Percy Spencer

7. What is invention?
A large majority of our respondents were inspired by a tension in their domain that became obvious when looked at from the perspective of another domain. Even though they do not think of themselves as interdisciplinary, their best work bridges realms of ideas.
Csíkszentmihályi, Mihály (1996). Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
………

8. What is discovery? What is discovery?
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something
A. Szent-Györgyi
What is discovery?
different

9. What is understanding and humour?
”… to understand … that always requires a tiny little jump of the intellect, a minute hop that connects one thing to another…
To ‘get’ a joke requires a similar mental skip ...”
p. 118

10. What do we do when our minds work creatively?
Transform one thing to another
Think on more than one plane
Connect things
Bridge realms of ideas
See something different
Jump, hop, skip intellectually
Transition

11. One step: Transition
Information
Opinion
Perception
Creative thinking

12. Creating the right gap Mind the width!

14. sticker & ticket
sticket

15. Michael Rosen: Really? He had a sticker and he had a little ticket
and he took the little sticker
and he stuck it to the ticket.
Now he hasn’t got a sticker
and he hasn’t got a ticket.
He’s got a bit of both
which he calls a little sticket.

16. Combine your objects Find someone to combine your object with.
Combine their names (e.g. sticket).
Find a use for the combined object. What is it good for?

17. Combined objects Fridge Computer Bedroom Window Ticket Garden Chair
Sun cream
Pencil
Dictionary
Picture
Hammock
Music
Chocolate
Pillow
Coffee
T-shirt
Camera
Perfume
Doormat
T. Woodward

18. Combined objects Transitions / thinking planes
one object – another object
one word – another word
one use – another use

19. What could students do with their combined objects?
Draw and give a name / describe / guess each other’s
Make them using e.g. objects / their bodies / playdough
Develop a dialogue between the two objects whether to unite or not
Make an ad to sell it
Write the instructions manual
Write a patent description
Negotiate a merger

20. Think of an object that you have and which is important to you
Find out about the lives of the other objects.
Are they happy with their owners?

21. Telltale objects Transitions / thinking planes person – object
between points of view
facts - feelings

22. Maternal advice
J. and C. Hadfield

23. Maternal advice Choose an animal. Choose some typical behaviour.
Give advice.

24. Maternal advice Transitions / thinking planes behaviour – animal
animal behaviour – human behaviour
points of view
behaviour - advice

25. Tactile weather forecast
Give the weather forecast on your partner’s back
Transitions / thinking planes
weather – touch
tactile feeling - weather

26. Tactile weather forecast
Transitions / thinking planes
weather – touch tactile feeling – weather
non-verbal - verbal
Transitions / thinking planes
weather – touch
tactile feeling - weather

27. Who is talking? I am silver and exact.
Whatever I see I swallow immediately.
I am not cruel, only truthful.
She rewards me with tears.
I am important to her.
Each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness.

29. Transitions / thinking planes
two sequences of events
fates of characters
meanings of stories

30. How could you make the creativity gap bigger?
Ss give each other the film ending they would like to be changed.
Ss swap endings and act out the other group's changed ending
Ss don’t say which film’s ending they changed. Others guess the film / the original ending

32. Transitions / thinking planes
informal to formal
genre switch

33. How could you make the creativity gap bigger?
Illustrate your stories.
Illustrate your stories; give the pictures to another group to write your stories.
Write for different paper types e.g. yellow press, science magazine, etc.
Make a TV news programme.

35. I clap = similar, 2 claps = different

36. Sylvia Plath: Mirror Whatever I see I swallow immediately
I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions.
Whatever I see I swallow immediately
Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike.
I am not cruel, only truthful-
The eye of the little god, four cornered.
Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall.
It is pink, with speckles. I have looked at it so long
I think it is a part of my heart. But it flickers.
Faces and darkness separate us over and over.
Now I am a lake. A woman bends over me,
Searching my reaches for what she really is.
Then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon.
I see her back, and reflect it faithfully.
She rewards me with tears and an agitation of hands.
I am important to her. She comes and goes.
Each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness.
In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman
Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish.

37. What are the wall’s thoughts?
Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall.
It is pink, with speckles. I have looked at it so long
I think it is a part of my heart. But it flickers.
Faces and darkness separate us over and over.

38. Describe the woman Now I am a lake. A woman bends over me,
Searching my reaches for what she really is.
Then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon.
I see her back, and reflect it faithfully.
She rewards me with tears and an agitation of hands.
I am important to her. She comes and goes.
Each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness.
In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman
Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish.

39. Mirror Transitions / thinking planes person – object
similarities – differences
between points of view
said – imagined
someone else – I – we all
now – past - future

40. Long actions blind ignorance
You have been tidying your room for a long time.

41. Long actions blind ignorance
Your partner has been sunbathing for a long time. B.
Your partner has been wearing the same dirty clothes for a long time.

42. Long actions blind ignorance
Transition / thinking planes
Action – result / side effect– action

43. What other grammar could be practiced with the ‘Blind Ignorance’ game?
Faulty objects – Present Perfect / Past deductions E.g. Squashed cake
Who am I? – Simple Present , Simple Past, Present Perfect E.g. Someone famous
In an appalling condition E.g. You are dripping wet.

44. Describing a picture creatively
Think of a task with a creativity gap for describing the picture.

46. Describing a picture creatively
1. Part – whole
a. Limiting information
part of picture, short time for viewing, not everyone can see it, etc.
b. Extending
before – after; things / people not in the picture; reasons, cause – effect; sound and voices, etc.
2. Person – person and person - object
monologues, speech bubbles, role play, drama, story, etc.

48. Transition
Creative thinking gap