Creative Insights
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Read more: What Is Creativity?
What Is Creativity?
Creativity is the ability to generate responses that are both new and useful. Far from being a gift reserved for a few or a skill exclusive to artists, it is a universal human capacity that can be developed. In this ByBa Cortex node, we explore what creativity really is, why it matters, and how it expands human possibilities.
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Read more: Lévi-Strauss and the Art of Bricolage
Lévi-Strauss and the Art of Bricolage
Lévi-Strauss's concept of bricolage describes creating with available resources instead of waiting for ideal ones. It offers a powerful lens for understanding creativity, innovation and problem solving. The bricoleur recombines existing elements, embraces constraints and explores possibilities through play. Many of humanity's most creative achievements emerge not from perfection but from resourcefulness.
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Read more: Emotional Core
Emotional Core
Emotional Core is a ByBa creative game that invites us to transform objects, ideas or problems by changing the emotion from which we perceive them. The dynamic asks you to choose a thing, identify its first sensation, replace it with another feeling and reformulate its function or existence from that new emotional bond. A playful way to feel differently and create differently.
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Read more: If situations are defined as real, their consequences are real
If situations are defined as real, their consequences are real
The Thomas theorem states that if situations are defined as real, their consequences become real. This article explores its double impact on creativity: how ideas perceived as possible transform reality, and how creative self-perception changes human behavior. Creativity appears here as perception, freedom, and the active construction of new possibilities.
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Read more: Every creative is their own clay
Every creative is their own clay
Creativity doesn’t use the creator—the creator is the raw material. This piece presents an identity-based view of creativity, where thinking, feeling, and perceiving form the real workshop. Everything you absorb becomes part of your system. Working on creativity ultimately means working on yourself as living, ever-changing material.
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Read more: Ode Against Creative Talent
Ode Against Creative Talent
A critical ode that dismantles the idea of talent as an explanation for creativity. Through 47 arguments, it reveals how this concept blocks learning, hides process, and restricts creative access. In contrast, it proposes a view of creativity as practice, system, and action—accessible to all and grounded in development rather than innate gifts.
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