Solitary work, creativity and larval ideas
Combinatorial Creativity
Combinatorial creativity recombines existing ideas to spark novel, valuable innovations in cognition, AI, and design.
Watch and Link Disparate Ideas — Think Jar Collective
An important skill to develop to enhance thinking creatively is to be able to link disparate ideas. This article lays out some provocations to spark creative collisions for innovation
Don’t change the subject
Many creatives know this phenomenon: They start a new project on a promising topic with excitement, but when they can’t come up with an original idea instantly — they lose interest. They come to th…
mata.garden
The garden is where we grow seeds of ideas. Either coming through a creative thought or a technological development we consider these live, multi-dimensional, interactive sketches or maquettes. It's important to have ideas that have no specific functional end but are there only to evolve and mutate into others. This is our place to do that.
Brainchildren
Minds are complex artifacts, partly biological and partly social; only a unified, multidisciplinary approach will yield a realistic theory of how they came i...
What Makes Us Smart?
Human creativity does not solely rely on our individual cognitive abilities, but instead emerges from the recombination of ideas, practices, and approaches that result from social interactions and id...
Midjourney
An independent research lab exploring new mediums of thought and expanding the imaginative powers of the human species.
Great creative work is usually the product of a single person
Lotus Blossom
Focus the power of brainstorming using a structured, visual representation of ideas—pushing you to fill out every box with new ideas.. Time: 60+minutes Group Size: 2+ people Level: Beginner
Co-creating with emergent processes ✦ Hijinx World
Existential musings over algorithmic design with creative programming legend Dan Tapper.
The Myth of the Instant Cake Mix
How to think about creative tooling in the new world of generative AI
A revolution in our sense of self | Nick Chater
Psychologists have tried to plumb the depths of human motivation to make sense of our behaviour. But our inner mental world is a fiction, sustained by constant improvisation
Emergence: the connected lives of ants, brains, cities and software
In the tradition of Being Digital and The Tipping Point…
The Evolution of Creativity
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.