Creative Insights

This article presents ByBa’s original four-dimensional model of creativity: existential, procedural, operational, and substructural. Not levels but coordinates in a system, these dimensions allow anyone to access creativity beyond talent or profession. Together they form a multidimensional understanding of human creative capacity, redefining how we experience identity, process, action, and cognitive transformation.

Radical imagination is not fantasy but the capacity to question the frameworks we take for granted. Inspired by thinkers like Castoriadis and Kelley, it transforms structures rather than merely content. At ByBa we distinguish imagination from creativity: creativity requires usefulness alongside novelty. Nothing emerges from nothing; radicality reorganizes existing elements until the map itself changes.

This article introduces the rhizome as a powerful creative concept and previews its future development in The Other. Through its six principles—connection, heterogeneity, multiplicity, asignifying rupture, cartography, and decalcomania—it offers practical applications for creative work, inviting readers to think non-linearly, grow sideways, and design processes that embrace complexity, mutation, and intelligent play.

Studying a creative career is not about fitting into a profession but reshaping it. These seven pieces of advice encourage play, critical thinking, questioning, and embodiment of discipline. Creativity starts during formation, not after graduation. Use university as a laboratory to build a unique professional identity driven by intelligence and play.

We love change and resist it at the same time. This paradox is not moral but biological: the brain desires novelty while fearing its cost. Through a short story, this article explores why creativity is often treated as a luxury, when in fact it is a fundamental necessity to reduce stress, adapt, and remain alive and curious.