The Storm of Creativity (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life)
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| Rating | : | 4.78 (600 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0262029944 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 216 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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(Joe Gebbia, Cofounder and Chief Product Officer, Airbnb)We spiral through our lives trying to do our work, and Kyna Leski understands the elusive complexity of it all. Thank God she has written a how-not-to book that helps us understand how to do it. In her thinking, she develops critical mechanisms that braid the arts, sciences, and humanities to bring the various disciplines into conversation as part of the process of discovering. (Wang Shu, Dean, School of Architecture, China Academy of Art; 2012 Pritzker Prize winner)There is perhaps no intellectual who is as in tune with the vulnerability of the creative process and the uncertainty from which innovation emerges as Kyna L
Kyna Leski is Professor in the Department of Architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design and a Founding Principal of 3six0 Architecture.
Leski sees the creative process as being like a storm; it slowly begins to gather and take form until it overtakes us -- if we are willing to let it. All of us must work our way through the empty page, the blank screen, writer's block, confusion, chaos, and doubt. It is dynamic, continually in motion; it starts, stops, rages and abates, ebbs and flows. Although each instance of creativity is singular and specific, Kyna Leski tells us, the creative process is universal. Creativity, Leski tells us, is a path with no beginning or end; it is ongoing. Artists, architects, poets, inventors, scientists, and others all navigate the same stages of the process in order to discover something that does not yet exist. We perceive and conceive; we look ahead without knowing where we are going; we make connections. The Creative ProcessUnlearningProblem MakingGathering and TrackingPropellingPerceiving and ConceivingSeeing AheadConnectingPausingContinuing. We gather evidence -- with notebook jottings, research, the collection of objects -- propelling the process. We pause, retreat, and stop, only to start again. In this book, Leski draws from her observations and experiences as a teacher, student, maker, writer, and architect to describe the workings of the creative process. To illustrate these stages of the process, Leski draws on examples of creative practice that range from Paul Klee to Steve Jobs, from the discovery of continen
"A good take on creative practice" according to Stellabeth. Enjoying this read. Some ideas have been stated/framed differently in other books on creativity, but Leski writes in a casual/poetic way that makes complex ideas accessible. Not so much a "how-to", but a framework that allows perspective on one's own creative practice. Would be a good book for students to read.. Five Stars This is a fascinating book: She shares the way she sees the world so well.. "For those not fortunate enough to have been one of Leski’s students at" according to Amazon Customer. For those not fortunate enough to have been one of Leski’s students at RISD, this book is a school. Architecture, etymology, poetry, and pedagogy itself are among the many creative fields discussed here. Thankfully, it is not mere interdisciplinary stone skipping. Each chapter breaks a surface, sinking deep into the dynamics of making. A refreshing contrast to the current wave of counterintuitive melodramas, there is authentic substance here, n