Creative Studies is one of the humanities subjects that we need to take in Faculty Creative Multimedia Alpha year. As you know by its name, it is a study about creativity. A studies of "How to solve a problem creatively".
For your information, the objective of this subject is to develop student's ability to identify an issue or topic and from that carry out appropriate research, analysis and idea synthesis that will result in a unique, personal statement.
And so What is CREATIVITY ?
This is the formal answer that I can thought of :
Creativity is the ability to imagine or create something new, things that other people haven thought before. Creativity is not about create somethings out of nothing. Generate new ideas by combining, changing and reapplying existing idea is the best way to create. Creativity is being creative to create a creative things using our creative brain.
Let see how others define Creativity.
Creativity is a mental process involving the discovery of new ideas or concepts, or new associations of the existing ideas or concepts, fueled by the process of either conscious or unconscious insight. ----- [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creativity]
I define creativity as the act of turning new and imaginative ideas into reality. Creativity involves two processes: thinking, then producing. Innovation is the production or implementation of an idea. If you have ideas, but don't act on them, you are imaginative but not creative.
- By Linda Naiman
"Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being...creativity requires passion and commitment. Out of the creative act is born symbols and myths. It brings to our awareness what was previously hidden and points to new life. The experience is one of heightened consciousness-ecstasy."
- Rollo May, The Courage to Create
"A product is creative when it is (a) novel and (b) appropriate. A novel product is original not predictable. The bigger the concept, and the more the product stimulates further work and ideas, the more the product is creative."
- Sternberg & Lubart, Defying the Crowd
----- [http://www.creativityatwork.com/articlesContent/whatis.htm]
Creativity is the bringing into being of something which did not exist before, either as a product, a process or a thought.
You would be demonstrating creativity if you:
In fact, we are all creative every day because we are constantly changing the ideas which we hold about the world about us. Creativity does not have to be about developing something new to the world, it is more to do with developing something new to ourselves. When we change ourselves, the world changes with us, both in the way that the world is affected by our changed actions and in the changed way that we experience the world.
- Invent something which has never existed before
- Invent something which exists elsewhere but you are not aware of
- Invent a new process for doing something
- Reapply an existing process or product into a new or different market
- Develop a new way of looking at something (bringing a new idea into existence)
- Change the way someone else looks at something
Creativity can be used to make products, processes and services better and it can be used to create them in the first place. It is expected that increasing your creativity will help you, your organization and your customers become happier through improvements in your quality and quantity of output
----- [ http://www.brainstorming.co.uk/tutorials/creativethinking.html ]
