Creativity

How generative AI could change the way we think and speak

What needs defending is the conceptual beauty of language: the freedom to build meaning through one’s own search for words

Ukrainian high jumper Yaroslava Mahuchikh executes the Fosbury flop – an unorthodox jumping style made popular by Dick Fosbury's Olympic win – on her way to winning gold at the recent World Athletics Championships in Hungary.
THE BROAD VIEW

Rising above boundaries: The transformative role of lateral thinking

IN 1968, a good, but not exceptional, athlete won the high jump gold medal at the Olympics. The man, Dick Fosbury, leapt higher than every other competitor at the Mexico City Games. And he did it by j...

Sleep brings dreams, which, according to new research, can give shape to creative ideas that come to us like gifts from a muse.
LIFE & CULTURE

Want to be more creative? Try dream-hacking while you sleep

New scientific methods are helping researchers understand how dreams can boost brainpower

Sheena Iyengar on the concept of Learning+Memory: “Neuroscience shows that all thinking is an act of memory in some form. That includes imagination, creativity, innovation and other variations of ‘new’ thoughts."
THE BROAD VIEW

If there are no new ideas, how do we keep innovating?

Thinking bigger is about assembling old ideas in a new way, says author Sheena Iyengar, who writes that all successful innovators are ‘strategic copiers’

Brian Gothong Tan's stunning, surreal images were created using an AI tool. Like other artists in Singapore, Tan has been turning to AI for collaboration and inspiration.
ARTS

End of tedium? How AI impacts the creative sector

From theatre and music to fashion and architecture, artificial intelligence is supercharging creative work, even as ethical concerns mount

Can anything be done to improve the world's ability to imagine a desirable future?

How to reverse the West’s creativity crisis

Reviving our social and political imagination will require defeating tech monopolists, the academic clerisy, and other vested interests in the knowledge-industrial complex.

Why it is (almost) impossible to teach creativity

Why it is (almost) impossible to teach creativity

It resists the measurement and strategies with which we're familiar.

The grey side of creativity

The grey side of creativity

CREATIVITY has been identified as a critical driver for economic growth and social reform at the macro level, and an enhancer of individual performance and competitiveness at the micro level.

When creative types meet business-school types ...

When creative types meet business-school types ...

Joint project for Disney teaches each side something about how the other works.

To innovate, hire the 'wrong' people

To innovate, hire the 'wrong' people

Business leaders must use diagnostic frameworks to examine the extent to which entrepreneurialism, creativity and continuous learning is promoted within their organisation.