Tuesday, April 07, 2009
Is Creativity a Team Sport?
ExhibiTricks: "In a recent post, I asked people to suggest 'Museums Worth a Special Trip.' One thing I've noticed about the museums suggested is that many, if not most of them, are the products of strong-minded founders. Which begs the question, 'Is Creativity a Team Sport'?"
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I think that creativity does tend to become a one man sport. The reason for this is that a single person usually comes up with the idea, and as such, is the most devoted to it.
I think that creativity is usually a one man sport, but that this is completely not true in the theatrical world. Because our productions are so large and intricate, you have to have several people working towards the final product. The most fascinating and creative ideas that we come up with for the theater are often results of collaboration, and melding interesting ideas into amazing results.
I think that the wonderful thing about being creative is that it is not restricted by a certain number of people. Creativity can be creatively used in any situation it is applied to. And as Liz said, theatre is a perfect example of this
I think Creativity for the most part should be individual to some extent, but collaboration is fine. Like in theatre although all the designers collaborate, each is in charge of his or her design field.
i think creativity, especially in the environment that we work in tends to become a collaboration even if it is initially guided by a single vision. The end result is always a combination of different ideas and creative processes.
I think its interesting that Apple doesn't use focus groups and instead relies on the intelligence of a single more compact unit. However some situations, like in theatre, benefit from having multiple inputs from designers the directors, and sometimes the actors. I feel a group works like a system of checks and balances to ensure a working completed piece. The group does have to work extremely well together to achieve this and this can fail epically sometimes.
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