creativity

Creativity is the ability to form novel and valuable ideas or works using one's imagination. (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

La créativité est — de façon générale — la capacité d'un individu ou d'un groupe d'individus ou d'êtres non-humains à imaginer et mettre en œuvre un concept neuf, un objet nouveau, à combiner des idées existantes ou à découvrir une solution originale à un problème. (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Une confrontation permanente entre théorie et expérience est une condition nécessaire à l’expression de la créativité.

Pierre Joliot

Le goût est l’ennemi de la créativité.”

Pablo Picasso

Of the many potentialities afforded by the computer, one of the most significant is its capacity to operate as a search engine. If, then, we think through the logic of the search in the context of ‘design’, what such an approach suggests is that if all possible solutions already exist, it is simply a question of defining a set of constraints and conducting a search, and then selecting one of the many outcomes. The potential implications of this are far reaching. Not only does it challenge the traditional notion of the ‘genius’ of the architect/designer and the originality of the work of art, but it also suggests that if there is still any creativity in the ‘design’ process, it should lie, firstly, in defining the constraints that generate the range of possible solutions to a problem, and, secondly, in developing an effective method of filtering or evaluating them

Neil Leach

in David Gerber, Mariana Ibanez (eds.), Paradigms in Computing: Making, Machines, and Models for Design Agency in Architecture, Los Angeles: eVolo Press, 2014, pp. 148-158