Creative Exercise

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Yurika Shibamoto
CEP818, MAET
Michigan State University

CREATIVITY
BROADENS
OUR REALITY

simple excercisesto bring creativity into our lives

Do we desire Creativity?

Bias Against Creativity?

"If people hold an implicit bias against creativity, then we cannot


assume that organizations, institutions or even scientific
endeavors will desire and recognize creative ideas even when they
explicitly state they want them." (Muller, et al., 2011)

Excercise 1

What
does creativity mean to you?

In next 5 minutes, please prepare yourself to express


what creativity looks like to you, using
one of the following methods.

1. photographs found on the Internet or taken by yourself


2. a hand drawing
3. embodiment (including movement and vocalization)

Sharing Time

What does creativity mean to you?

Excercise 2

How
do you describe creativity?

Please create the description of the creativity that


you expressed using the examples of terms in your
field of expertise.

Sharing Time

How do you describe creativity?

Creativity
Broadens Our Reality

People of creative imagination, pioneers,


must be adaptable thinkers and have a toolbox
of basic and versatile creative skills that will
enable them to generate new knowledge.
(Root-Bernstein & Root-Bernstein, 2001)

Reference:

Mueller, J. S., Melwani, S., and Goncalo, J. A., (2011). The Bias Against Creativity:
Why People Desire But Reject Creative Ideas. Psychological Science. 23(1). p13-
17. http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/articles/450

Root-Bernstein, M. & Root-Bernstein R. (2001). Sparks of genius: The thirteen


thinking tools of the world's most creative people. Mariner Books.Paragraph.

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