Picasso said,
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”
This was a question that was running in my head for several days. Is there anyone in this world who is always creative? Do they have a secret that they are not telling us? Seems suspicious! Or is it that there is no such thing as constant creativity and the creatives are also mediocre at times? Is there something that provokes one’s mind to think in a particular direction, which brings out these new thought ideas?
When I was looking at wicked problems* of the world, these questions always remained in my head. Personally I have experienced & observed people having this creative block – studying in a design school for now 4 years, we have an urge and reason to cross this barrier. We have questioned it at a lot of stages. So why not understand this topic and find some unexplored answers?
*A wicked problem is a problem that is difficult or impossible to solve because of incomplete, contradictory and changing requirements that are often difficult to recognize. It refers to an idea or problem that can not be fixed, where there is no single solution to the problem.
When this thought was shared with the class, few questioned its relevance as a System design topic, few questioned its outcomes, few were worried about the time constraint.
We came together as a group with one common feeling – curiosity.
A person who was curious to know how a fundamental quality was not a mandatory skill in the past but now has become a major point in the 21st century? How smartly it is around us everywhere but is still not highlighted.
A person who is keen to know how can we make it a method of the betterment of the quality of life. Can it be measured, analyzed, defined?
A person who is questioning if this skill can be nurtured? How does the eureka moment occur? Is creativity a conscious or a subconscious process? does pressure play any role in coming up with brilliant ideas?
– Nuti Mody
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