Special section: Creativity and cognition

✍ Scribed by Ernest Edmonds

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 155 KB
• Volume: 7
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0950-7051
• DOI: 10.1016/0950-7051(94)90032-9

✦ Synopsis

International Symposium on Creativity & CognitionL

The main aim was to bring together leading practitioners from the different fields of creative practice, the study of creative thought and computer support systems for creative tasks in order to promote dialogue between these different perspectives.

My personal motivation in proposing the symposium was that I had attended many meetings over the previous few years in which experts had discussed creative practice and theory, but all of them had only included a subset of the relevant experts 2,3. Artificial intelligence, cognitive science and philosophy were often discussed together as were art and design practice and theory. The missing live discussion was the one that brought all of these concerns together. That is what we did at the creativity and cognition symposium. Designers and scientists may think differently in important respects but, for both of these groups, their exposure to new views of creativity proved stimulating and valuable.