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The Creativity Quartet 2020 are 52 playing cards with 52 corresponding articles on Creativity. The Creativity Quartet 2020 is for professionals that want to understand creativity in its richness, to be able to make better use of their own creativity and problem-solving abilities. And for those who want to facilitate the creativity of others. It is our assumption is that if you have more understanding about what you are doing when you are trying to use your creativity, you will be better at it. So go for it!
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CQ24: The 3 secrets of Design Thinking
Design Thinking is hot. Most non-design professionals know ‘the design process’ as a method called Design Thinking. A potential reason for its popular
CQ23: Creative Problem Solving, the ins and outs
As the term implies, CPS is a method to train people on how to enhance their creativity and become more ‘creative’ problems-solver. I am positive that
CQ22: Deliberate creativity methods
Can we be creative by choice? The word ‘deliberate’ implies we can. In this chapter I will describe four methods all based on the idea that we can be
CQ21: How do people solve problems?
The Cognitive Analytical Model (CAM) is described by Robert W. Weisberg in his 2006 book: Creativity: Understanding Innovation in Problem Solving, Sci
CQ20: Geneplore: theory ready for practical use
Geneplore is a merge of two words: generate & explore (Finke, et al., 1992). The Geneplore model is described in a book called Creative Cognition,
CQ19: Three Components of Creative Performance by Amabile
Teresa Amabile (1950-going strong), distinguished and retired Harvard Professor, but as many retired professors, still working. Last Summer at the Cre
CQ18: Preparation, Incubation, Illumination, Verification
You know that feeling when you finish a book, close the cover, hold it in front of you, and you think: ‘WOW!’? I had that with the Art of Thought from
CQ17: Theoretical models on creativity, where to start?
There are as many theoretical models on creativity as models in the first episode of a new season of America’s Next Top Model. Fortunately, we have a
CQ16: There is no such thing as Creative Thinking
I finished Robert Weisberg’s 600+ page book on creativity in 2016. Weisberg (2006) concludes that creative thinking doesn’t exist. He makes a strong c
CQ15: What is the difference between creativity and innovation?
I recently became the new President of the European Association of Creativity & Innovation (EACI)*. From that perspective, it would be nice to cla
CQ14: What is Creativity?
Understanding how people create has been a serious topic for philosophy since the Renaissance (CQ9). But when Guilford acknowledges creativity to be a
CQ13: Could Einstein paint like Picasso?
Could Einstein paint like Picasso? No. And Picasso was no brainiac like Einstein was. We give both men credit for their great creative contributions,
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