The Storm of Creativity Simplicity Design Technology Business Life (Audible Audio Edition) Kyna Leski Robin McKay University Press Audiobooks Books
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Although each instance of creativity is singular and specific, Kyna Leski tells us, the creative process is universal. Artists, architects, poets, inventors, scientists, and others all navigate the same stages of the process in order to discover something that does not yet exist. All of us must work our way through the empty page, the blank screen, writer's block, confusion, chaos, and doubt. In this book, Leski draws from her observations and experiences as a teacher, student, maker, writer, and architect to describe the workings of the creative process.
Leski sees the creative process as being like a storm; it slowly begins to gather and take form until it overtakes us - if we are willing to let it. It is dynamic, continually in motion; it starts, stops, rages and abates, ebbs and flows. She maps the arc of the creative process by tracing the path of water droplets traveling the stages of a storm.
Leski draws on examples of creative practice that range from Paul Klee to Steve Jobs, from the discovery of continental drift to the design of Antoni Gaudi's Sagrada Familia.
Creativity, Leski tells us, is a path with no beginning or end; it is ongoing. This revelatory view of the creative process will be an essential guide for anyone engaged in creative discovery.
The book is published by MIT Press.
The Storm of Creativity Simplicity Design Technology Business Life (Audible Audio Edition) Kyna Leski Robin McKay University Press Audiobooks Books
Wonderfully written. In many ways this book is about how we need to live in our rapidly changing world. It is how we need to engaged in creative processes and less focused on consuming things. In many ways it is about the magic of our existence, but very connected to reality, which continues to evolve. It is a book that everyone should read whether they work in the Arts, the Social Sciences, or Crafts.Product details
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The Storm of Creativity Simplicity Design Technology Business Life (Audible Audio Edition) Kyna Leski Robin McKay University Press Audiobooks Books Reviews
To what does the title of this book refer? Kyna Leski suggests that a storm is an appropriate metaphor for the creative process. How so? Both seem to begin from what appears to be nothing; arise out of a disturbance to displace and destabilize the status quo; increase power and impact while varying in nature and extent; both are contagious; in perpetual motion; and have reiteratIve cycles. Neither can they be controlled, nor can a specific course for either be predicted.
She goes on to observe, "The consequences of a storm and creativity are real, and specific. They are found in the exchange that happens between the world, creator, and those with whom the creation interacts. This may be the viewer or a work of art, the recipient of an idea, patient receiving the novel treatment, dweller in the built house, user of an artifact, and so on. Creation is, in this respect, truly 'in the (mind's) eyes of the beholder,' and the principal consequence of the creative process is transformation."
These are among the dozens of passages that caught my eye, also listed to suggest the scope of Leski's coverage
o Storm (Pages 1-4, 7-8, 38-39, 151-152, and 165-165)
o Open mind (12-13 and 15-20)
o Uncertainty (16-17 and 163-164)
o Mistakes (17-18)
o Invention (26-28, 32-034, and 95-97)
o Framing a problem (40-43)
o Limits on problems (43-46)
o Gathering (49-52 and 56-63)
o Gathering of intelligence (56-58)
o Perceptions and Preconceptions (57-58, 25-26, 83-88, 94-95, 97-98, and 126-128)
o Form (57-60, 66-67, and 77-78)
o Abstract (63-64, 97-98, and 117-118)
o Language (71-75, and 164-165)
o Scale (74-75)
o Catenary curve (76-80)
o Conceptions (80-81, 87-88, and 95-95)
o Sensibility (83-91)
o Connecting/Connections (122-140)
o Charles Darwin (123-126)
o Synchronicity (135-139)
As Kyna Leski suggests near the conclusion of her brilliant book, "creativity is a reiterative process. But it does not reiterate within a closed loop until some end is achieved. It is ongoing, continuing...At any point in creative practice, you may go 'back' and unlearn, or go 'back' and gather...the 'output' of creativity, the reaching of a goal or ideal, and thus the the making of some product or consequence, is not an end point. This holds true whether the creativity takes place in an artistic or scientific realm, whether in engineering or design, whether a medical diagnosis or the writing of a poem. Creativity continues; an artifact formed through creative practice is not an end point but rather a point along a never-ending way."
She cites my favorite passage in T.S. Eliot's "Four Quartets" in Chapter 2 ("Little Gidding") and once again as this book concludes
"We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all of our exploring
Will be to arrive at where we started
And know the place for the first time."
Each storm of creativity offers the opportunity to see at least some portion of reality -- what is or what could be -- that we had not recognized before. As Alvin Toffler urges us to do, we must learn, unlearn, and relearn from each storm throughout a process of discovery that never ends until we do. This is probably what Pablo Picasso had in mind when observing that he spent all of his adult life struggling to see the world as he once did as a child. His quest ended only when he died...at age 91.
Kyna Leski is one of the most important and influential architecture teachers in the US. This book is a supremely well organized distillation of many years' experience teaching architecture and other design fields at undergraduate and graduate level. For teachers of architecture this is an essential book--hopefully it will spark a serious discussion about pedagogy in our field. In my opinion her book also has great value for thoughtful people working in other fields--politicians, businesspeople, composers--for anyone who must come up with a singular response to situations/problems that don't have a clear definition or solution. It is risky to write about creativity. Methods, rules, or techniques for being creative obviously won't work since each creative task and answer is unique. Accounts of the creative process-- stories of how others have framed and resolved problems-- can also also be of limited use since the firsthand experience often seems continuous or instantaneous, and usually lies below the threshold of conscious attention. Kyna Leski brings a deeply reflective mind to this elusive phenomenon--she slows down the process, and in my opinion accurately accounts for what is going on. She shows us that the creative process is not continuous or seamless. There are junctures, phase changes. At different points in the trajectory, different rules apply there's a moment to think analytically and another moment to intentionally transgress what one has already done and thought. She is able to point to these discontinuities and offer helpful suggestions. Her guiding hand is strong but also light "Why don't you try this?"
Some readers who consider themselves experts in their chosen terrain, working and teaching in creative fields, will no doubt be provoked by this book. To give one example by my understanding Leski advocates diagrammatic thinking at a late point in the creative process. Those who are committed to diagrams as initiating seeds for thought will disagree with this--and so will others who see no beneficial place in the creative process for diagrams. I think that this book will become a fundamental reference for discussions and debates on creativity.
great book for a gift to any creative people you may know and get it signed if you live in RI by the writer
Enjoying this read. Some ideas have been stated/framed differently in other books on creativity, but Leski writes in a casual/poetic way that makes complex ideas accessible. Not so much a "how-to", but a framework that allows perspective on one's own creative practice. Would be a good book for students to read.
This is a fascinating book She shares the way she sees the world so well.
This book is truly a treasure and a presents a beautifully intuitive metaphor about creativity and cultivating a creative practice. I read it about a year ago and now I am revisiting it by listening to the audiobook version because it is such a wonderful book!
From the Act of Creation, by Arthur Koestler to Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Suzuki Roshi, to Kyna Leski it all comes down to the space between heaven and earth where the storm arises. The excitement and the terror of that place is all that we have to be truly alive. Imagine what life would be without "the storm of creativity."
Wonderfully written. In many ways this book is about how we need to live in our rapidly changing world. It is how we need to engaged in creative processes and less focused on consuming things. In many ways it is about the magic of our existence, but very connected to reality, which continues to evolve. It is a book that everyone should read whether they work in the Arts, the Social Sciences, or Crafts.
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