Creativity in Analog Processes
We are experiencing a profound shift in creative processes, i.e., how creativity arises, in which contexts it occurs, and how it is evaluated. AI, digitalization, and automation, for example, are influencing the forms and skills we use to solve (everyday) problems. The separation of result and process (question and search result within seconds) is changing our understanding of cause and effect, impacting judgment and imagination. Our knowledge of how much time something takes is also affected.
This leads to the following questions:
How are ideas generated based on this?
How can I judge whether something is correct or incorrect?
What do I do if something goes wrong?
How and where do I even begin?
How do I proceed if I don’t know what I’m doing?
How long will it take to solve this problem?
Or more specifically:
Is it true that necessity is the mother of invention? What mechanism (namely, thinking in analogies) is behind this?
And finally:
How do I solve an (analogous) problem during a power outage?
Against the background of current developments, the “School of the Provisional ®” deals with such questions and acts as a kind of “think tank”. The publications (currently in the form of podcasts and publications), workshops and other contributions are not only aimed at educational institutions, but at anyone who wants to find out more.
Latest release (in german):
Schild, Margit (2025): Improvisation und Kreativität in Zeitkrisen, oder:
Macht (Zeit-)Not erfinderisch? Ein Anstoß zur Diskussion, in: Dürkop-Henseling, L.; Horwitz, M; Späte, K. (Hrsg.): Sozialwissenschaftliche Beobachtungen von Krisen, Perspektiven, Instrumente und Erfahrungen. Reihe Sozialwissenschaften und Berufspraxis, herausgegeben vom Berufsverband Deutscher Soziologinnen und Soziologen e. V., Recklinghausen, Springer, Wiesbaden, S. 409 – 435 link
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