Blank Screens and Muse’s Kisses

Lutz Schmitt
ProfsoUX 2020

How to spark an inspiration? Where do great minds get their ideas from? Can you bribe the muses to kiss you more often? This talk will walk you with open minds through the realm of imagination – the place where everything is possible, and wonders happen all the time. Stop staring at your blank screen and join me for this road trip and capture some inspiration. Expect stories from the past, science around our brain and some speculations into our future. Curiosity kills the cat but join this talk nonetheless!

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2. Photo by Dguendel on wikimedia.org, used under a cc-by 4.0 license
4. useful fitting suitable relevant APPROPRIATE valuable adaptive ORIGINAL unusual statistically rare unexpected unique new novel CREATIVE
6. Big-C Little-C MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALY
7. Source: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228345133_Beyond_Big_and_Little_The_Four_C_Model_of_Creativity Big-C Little-C THE FOUR C MODEL OF CREATIVITY Pro-C Mini-C
8. EVERYDAY INNOVATION LITTLE-C CREATIVITY Photo by Lutz Schmitt, published under a cc-by 4.0 license
9. TRANSFORMATIVE LEARNING MINI-C CREATIVITY Photo by Lutz Schmitt, published under a cc-by 4.0 license
10. Photo by Lutz Schmitt, published under a cc-by 4.0 license
11. PROFESSIONAL EXPERTISE PRO-C CREATIVITY Photo by Lutz Schmitt, published under a cc-by-nd 4.0 license
12. We’re standing on the shoulder of giants
13. THE EMINENT - BIG-C CREATIVITY Screenshot from https://guernica.museoreinasofia.es/gigapixel/en - „Guernica“ by Pablo Picasso, 1937
14. Citation. Source: https://www.bach-digital.de/receive/BachDigitalSource_source_00001200
17. Analogical Reasoning Creative Imagery Overcoming Knowledge Constraints Metaphor Processing Insight Conceptual Expansion
18. Analogical Reasoning Creative Imagery Overcoming Knowledge Constraints Metaphor Processing Insight Conceptual Expansion
20. right not for creativity Left is not for logic
21. Novelty-Routinization (Goldberg & Bilder)
22. DEFAULT MODE NETWORK CENTRAL EXECUTIVE NETWORK
23. SALIENCE
24. Illustration by Nekovarova, Fajnerova, Horacek, Spaniel. Source: wikimedia.org used under acc-by 3.0 license
25. Citation from Beaty et al, 2018, Robust prediction of individual creative ability from brain functional connectivity Source:https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1713532115
30. THE FOUR OF CREATIVITX ROCESS RODUCT ERSON LACE
31. ROCESS RODUCT ERSON LACE
32. WALLAS MODEL
33. Generation of preinventive Structures Preinventive Exploration & Interpretation product constraints focus or expand concept
34. ROCESS RODUCT ERSON LACE
35. THOUGHT IDEA PRODUCT COMUNICATED EMBODIED
36. ROCESS RODUCT ERSON LACE
37. […] highly creative people have been found to show greater openness to novel experiences, are attracted to complexity, display heightened aesthetic sensibilities, are unconventional as well as intrinsically motivated, and are characterized by a heightened sense of confidence, independence, and ambition. (Barron & Harrington, 1981; Feist, 1998)
38. DESIGNER
40. ROCESS RODUCT ERSON LACE
41. MACRO SOCIAL CULTURAL ECONOMICAL POLITICAL CHALLENGE FREEDOM RESOURCES TEAMWORK ENCOURAGEMENT SUPPORT
43. CREATIVITY
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