Buzz in Leicester
December 7, 2007 – 3:26 pmSpoke yesterday at a conference on Creativity:Innovation and Industry, organised by the Insititute of Creative Technologies at De Montfort University in Leicester. The other contributors were two academics, Professor Margaret Boden and Dr Claudia Eckert, and Toby Moores of Sleepy Dog, the company that brought us Buzz. Annoyingly I managed to read 8:00 am as 7:00 am on my watch, missed my train and missed Maggie's opening talk. I'll post more when I get a transcript but I think she discussed three kinds of creativity: combinational, exploratory and historic. I know she told me that I was wrong when in my presentation I gave the Koestler definition of 'bisociation' as the heart of any creative act. Claudia Eckhart has been studying creativity and innovation processes at Cambridge University. She compared attitudes to creativity in art and scientific or technical domains, suggesting that the term is regarded with suspicion in engineering projects ...