Designing for Creativity

Interesting article from Wired.com , by Jonah Lerer, about how distance can make us think more creatively about an object or idea.

According to the construal level theory (CLT) of psychological distance, anything that we do not experience as occurring now, here, and to ourselves falls into the “psychologically distant” category. It’s also possible to induce a state of “psychological distance” simply by changing the way we think about a particular problem, such as attempting to take another person’s perspective, or by thinking of the question as if it were unreal and unlikely. In this new paper, by Lile Jia and colleagues at Indiana University at Bloomington, scientists have demonstrated that increasing psychological distance so that a problem feels farther away can actually increase creativity.


Click here for the rest of the article: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/07/designing-for-creativity/
 
 
It seems that the color blue helps to inspire creativity: http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/2009/02/the_color_of_creativity.php
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