Creativity is a complex phenomenon, not easily measured or observed with traditional scientific instruments. However, if we replace sensors with humans, we might manifest new perspectives on creative processes. Developing on arguments he introduced in his PhD thesis about children and exaptive technologies, Jean-Baptiste Labrune explore the implications of reflexive Creativity Research Tools (CRT) for the description and analysis of creativity in art and science research labs.

1. Exploring Creativity
with a Reflexive Lens
Jb Labrune - MIT Media Lab - 11172008
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2. Creativity
Divergent, Different
New,
Meaningful, Convergent, Appropriate
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3. Paul Cox @ Pompidou
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4. Paul Cox @ Pompidou
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5. Paul Cox @ Pompidou
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6. (( Lego vs Linka ))
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8. 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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9. Peer-to-peer Data Collection
Tangicam: Tangible Camera
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10. Capturing Point-of-Interest
Sketchcam
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11. Co-Exploration Tools
Metalogue
Exaptation
Intersubjective, Joint Attention
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12. Exploring Creativity
Manifesting a complex phenomenon
Promote human metalogue Morphogenesis
Celebrate subjectivity
Identify Exaptations Schizogenesis
Reflect on Adaptations Semiogenesis
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13. Agenda
A. What is an Appropriate Scientific
Framework to study Creativity ?
B. Subjective Expressions
C. Exaptation
D. Creativity Research Tools
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14. A
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What Appropriate
Scientific Framework
to study Creativity ?
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15. Quantitative Qualitative
Complexity
Philosophy
Metaphysics
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16. A. Scientific Framework ?
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Quantitative
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17. Descartes | Rationalism
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18. Descartes | Metrics
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19. Descartes | Anatomy of a Rainbow, 1637
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20. Flammarion Woodcut
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21. Young Albert
Marie Curie + Henri Poincare
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22. A. Scientific Framework ?
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Qualitative
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23. Margaret Mead | Samoa
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24. Piaget & Inhelder
D.W. Winicott
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25. A. Scientific Framework ?
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Complexity
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26. Bateson at Naropa, 1975
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27. 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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28. Subjective Intersubjective
Dialogue Metalogue
Gregory Bateson
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29. A. Scientific Framework ?
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Philosophy
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30. Husserl talking to Heidegger
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31. A. Scientific Framework ?
(
Metaphysics
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32. The Face of the Other
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33. Emmanuel Levinas
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34. Objective
Subjective Intersubjective
Metasubjective
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35. B
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Subjective
Expressions
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36. B. Subjective Expressions
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Preliterate Scripts
Invented Doodles
Illegible Cave Paintings
Primal Children’s Drawing
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37. Tetsuro Matsuzawa Steven R. Kutcher
Child Chimp Insects
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38. B. Subjective Expressions
(
Asemic Codexae
Voynich Manuscript
Aldaraia
Codex Seraphinianus
Codex Mendoza
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
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39. Voynich Manuscript
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40. Voynich Manuscript
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41. Codex Seraphinianus
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42. Codex Seraphinianus
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43. Henri Michaux
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44. Marcel Duchamp
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45. B. Subjective Expressions
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Invention vs
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Discovery
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46. Osho
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47. C
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Exaptation
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48. M.C. Escher
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49. Marcel Duchamp
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50. Marcel Duchamp
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51. C.H. Waddington
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52. C.H. Waddington
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53. C. Exaptation
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Adaptation vs Exaptation
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54. C. Exaptation
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Co-opted Adaptations
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc822/
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55. C. Exaptation
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Spandrels
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56. C. Exaptation
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Engineers vs Gardeners
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57. D
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Creativity Research
Tools (CRT)
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58. 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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59. CRT & the Media Lab
Brainstorming
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60. CRT & the Media Lab
Hiroshi Ishii at MIT WindTunnel
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61. CRT & the Media Lab
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62. 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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