building for creativity
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A discussion document about building for creativity. Produced in programming stages for an innovation center in Japan.TRANSCRIPT
Building for CreativityChris Berthelsen (http://a-small-lab.com)for http://www.vanderarchitects.com/
The TOOL HOUSE (thank you mr Echanove)
Organic connection through individual, family, community, neighbourhood, extended family, organisations and the government.
A SPECTRUM OF FUNCTIONAL OPTIMISATION, from storage to productive commercial space, to integration into the global economy. A connection with LIVELIHOODS – social cultural as well as economic imperatives.
SOCIAL STRUCTURES and TRUST play an important role in income generation and the configuration of space (community ties permeate personal and professional space)
Not informal, but in-formation.
The tool house accretes through creative use.Not just dense, but simultaneously diverse
stigmergy
Personal components of creativity
(3)
(1)
(2)
Building for Creativity(1) Personal Components of Creativity in the Built Environment
PEOPLE
Creativity is a PRODUCT of a PROCESS that occurs within a PERSON in a PLACE.
HUMAN(E) use of buildings is messy and spontaneous, but it is also a creative response to the built environment, a reflection of personality, livelihoods, society, culture and traditions.
The most powerful way of improving our environments is to put it in control of those PEOPLE that have the STAKE and KNOWLEDGE to make it function well.
PEOPLE feel JOY rather than mere PLEASURE.
PEOPLE use buildingsand we are building for creativity
Personal Components of Creativity
PEOPLE use buildingsand we are building for creativity
Knowledge and Skills
“act directly on tasks within the relevant domain in question, but also indirectly affect creativity in other domains through the broadening of individual perspectives..”
Personal Components of Creativity
PEOPLE use buildingsand we are building for creativity
Creativity Relevant Skills
“cognitive and personality traits, work style (e.g. high energy and concentration), and knowledge/ability to use creativity generating techniques..”
Knowledge and Skills
“act directly on tasks within the relevant domain in question, but also indirectly affect creativity in other domains through the broadening of individual perspectives..”
Personal Components of Creativity
PEOPLE use buildingsand we are building for creativity
Intrinsic Motivation
“the motivation to work on something primarily for its own sake, because it is enjoyable, satisfying, challenging or otherwise captivating...”
Creativity Relevant Skills
“cognitive and personality traits, work style (e.g. high energy and concentration), and knowledge/ability to use creativity generating techniques..”
Knowledge and Skills
“act directly on tasks within the relevant domain in question, but also indirectly affect creativity in other domains through the broadening of individual perspectives..”
Personal Components of Creativity
PEOPLE use buildingsand we are building for creativity
Intrinsic Motivation
“the motivation to work on something primarily for its own sake, because it is enjoyable, satisfying, challenging or otherwise captivating...”
Creativity Relevant Skills
“cognitive and personality traits, work style (e.g. high energy and concentration), and knowledge/ability to use creativity generating techniques..”
Knowledge and Skills
“act directly on tasks within the relevant domain in question, but also indirectly affect creativity in other domains through the broadening of individual perspectives..”
Personal Components of Creativity
PEOPLE use buildingsand we are building for creativity
How can we understand these in terms of the built environment?
(elements of the building: e.g.)● Site● Built Form● Components● Structure● Skin● Services● Space● Circulation● Space Syntax● Legibility● Regulations/Restrictions● Furniture● And?
what parts are we interested in?
(e.g.)Transport/AccessLocation
Storey Height
Materials, FixturesBotanicsConnectionsInterchangeabilityDurability
LoadingWallsGrid Spacing
CladdingGlazing
AccessRedundancyLighting, Waste, Power
Standardisation
FlowCoresAccess/Egress
Buildings are used by people
(elements of the building)● Site● Built Form● Components● Structure● Skin● Services● Space● Circulation● Space Syntax● Legibility● Regulations/Restrictions● Furniture● And?
[ stakeholders include: passers-by, local families, community, workers, innovators in residence, start-ups, sponsors etc...... ]
Buildings are used by people
(elements of the building)● Site● Built Form● Components● Structure● Skin● Services● Space● Circulation● Space Syntax● Legibility● Regulations/Restrictions● Furniture● And?
(action spectrum)● Spontaneous, ad-hoc
movement↓
● Everyday Behaviour↓
● Routines↓
● Livelihoods↓
● Occasions/Events ● Rituals● Myths● And?
[ stakeholders include: passers-by, local families, community, workers, innovators in residence, start-ups, sponsors etc...... ]
Buildings are used by peoplein many ways and levels
Intrinsic Motivation
Creativity Relevant Skills
Knowledge and Skills
How does the building enable informal knowledge acquisition, transfer and transformation?
With the above in mind,
Personal Components of Creativity
See Hedlund (link)Knowledge
taxonomy (link)
See Nonaka (link)
Intrinsic Motivation
Creativity Relevant Skills
Knowledge and Skills
In what ways does the building influence● Implicit or explicit heuristics for generating novel ideas?● Work style conducive to creativity?● Creative cognitive frames of mind?
With the above in mind,
Personal Components of Creativity
Intrinsic Motivation
“the motivation to work on something primarily for its own sake, because it is enjoyable, satisfying, challenging or otherwise captivating”
Creativity Relevant Skills
Knowledge and Skills
How does the building enhance intrinsic motivation and minimize external constraints on motivation?
With the above in mind,
Personal Components of Creativity
Source: Derived from discussion in Amabile (1996) and Stafford (1998).Amabile, T.M. (1996). Creativity in context. Boulder: Westview Press.Stafford, S.P. (1998). Capitalizing on careabouts to facilitate creativity. Creativity andInnovation Management , 7(3), 159-167.
Intrinsic Motivation
“the motivation to work on something primarily for its own sake, because it is enjoyable, satisfying, challenging or otherwise captivating”
Creativity Relevant Skills
Knowledge and Skills
How does the building enhance intrinsic motivation and minimize external constraints on motivation?
‘extrinsics in the service of intrinsics’ (i) Possibility of sparking latent creativity + (ii) Motivational synergy
(when intrinsic motivation is low) (when intrinsic motivation is high)
With the above in mind,
‘extrinsics in the service of intrinsics’
Creative Climate+ve and -ve influences on intrinsic motivation
‘extrinsics in the service of intrinsics’
Creative Climate+ve and -ve influences on intrinsic motivation
(positive dimensions)● Freedom● Trust/Openness● Resources● Time● Playfulness/Humour● Idea Support● Debate● Risk Tolerance
(negative dimensions)● Conflict/Violence
‘extrinsics in the service of intrinsics’
Creative ClimateHow does the building influence the social psychological dimensions that are
important for intrinsic motivation?
(positive dimensions)● Freedom● Trust/Openness● Resources● Time● Playfulness/Humour● Idea Support● Debate● Risk Tolerance
(negative dimensions)● Conflict/Violence
(elements of the building)● Site● Built Form● Components● Structure● Skin● Services● Space● Circulation● Space Syntax● Legibility● Regulations/Restrictions● Furniture● And?
‘extrinsics in the service of intrinsics’
Creative ClimateHow does the building influence the social psychological dimensions that are
important for intrinsic motivation?(over a spectrum of action, from the momentary to the mythical, for relevant stakeholders)
(positive dimensions)● Freedom● Trust/Openness● Resources● Time● Playfulness/Humour● Idea Support● Debate● Risk Tolerance
(negative dimensions)● Conflict/Violence
(elements of the building)● Site● Built Form● Components● Structure● Skin● Services● Space● Circulation● Space Syntax● Legibility● Regulations/Restrictions● Furniture● And?
(action spectrum)● Spontaneous, ad-hoc
movement↓
● Everyday Behaviour↓
● Routines↓
● Livelihoods↓
● Occasions/Events ● Rituals● Myths● And?
[ stakeholders include: passers-by, local families, community, workers, innovators in residence, start-ups, sponsors etc...... ]
Building for Creativity(2) Stigmergy and Scattered Oases
Creative use of the built environment leaves traces and fragments; remnants that layer up and decay over time.
These traces are fine-grained evidence of life. Human-scale attachment, action and care.Affection, love, pride. Ordinary magic. Resilience.
Scattered oases. Tacitly accepted or actively protected.
Individuals adjust their use (indirect collaboration) to fit with that of other users of the space through the medium of a
slow and steady work in progress.
stigmergy
Actor/Action Environment
Actor/Action
Actor/Action
Use (Coordination/Construction)
Imprint of information via cues and/or stimuli
Information flow via the environment
stigmergy
Actor/Action Environment
Actor/Action
Actor/Action
Use (Coordination/Construction)
Imprint of information via cues and/or stimuli
Information flow via the environment
stigmergy
Who?What?
What?How?Where?
What?How?Where?
What?How?Where?
Actor/Action Environment
Actor/Action
Actor/Action
Use (Coordination/Construction)
Imprint of information via cues and/or stimuli
Information flow via the environment
stigmergy
Who?What?
What?How?Where?
What?How?Where?
What?How?Where?What does the stigmergy of the
building mean for knowledge transformation processes? See previous diagrams
Actor/Action Environment
Actor/Action
Actor/Action
Use (Coordination/Construction)
Imprint of information via cues and/or stimuli
Information flow via the environment
stigmergy
Who?What?
What?How?Where?
What?How?Where?
What?How?Where?What is a stigmergy of the built
environment? What elements of the building are important?
Building for Creativity(3) Tool House (CEP)
The TOOL HOUSE (thank you mr Echanove)
Organic connection through individual, family, community, neighbourhood, extended family, organisations and the government.
A SPECTRUM OF FUNCTIONAL OPTIMISATION, from storage to productive commercial space, to integration into the global economy. A connection with LIVELIHOODS – social cultural as well as economic imperatives.
SOCIAL STRUCTURES and TRUST play an important role in income generation and the configuration of space (community ties permeate personal and professional space)
The TOOL HOUSE (thank you mr Echanove)
Organic connection through individual, family, community, neighbourhood, extended family, organisations and the government.
A SPECTRUM OF FUNCTIONAL OPTIMISATION, from storage to productive commercial space, to integration into the global economy. A connection with LIVELIHOODS – social cultural as well as economic imperatives.
SOCIAL STRUCTURES and TRUST play an important role in income generation and the configuration of space (community ties permeate personal and professional space)
Not informal, but in-formation.
The tool house accretes through creative use.Not just dense, but simultaneously diverse
The TOOL HOUSE (thank you mr Echanove)
Organic connection through individual, family, community, neighbourhood, extended family, organisations and the government.
A SPECTRUM OF FUNCTIONAL OPTIMISATION, from storage to productive commercial space, to integration into the global economy. A connection with LIVELIHOODS – social cultural as well as economic imperatives.
SOCIAL STRUCTURES and TRUST play an important role in income generation and the configuration of space (community ties permeate personal and professional space)
Not informal, but in-formation.
The tool house accretes through creative use.Not just dense, but simultaneously diverse
stigmergy
Personal components of creativity
Moving toward a built environment as an elegant tool.
platform
Moving toward a built environment as an elegant tool.
convenience
elegance
platform
