CRS 580 Final Product by Mariano

1. Final Product
CRS580 Creativity Assessment: Measures and Methods
Buffalo State College
Mariano Tosso
December 2, 2012

2. Introduction
I illustrated highlights of key concepts from Chapters 21 and 22 using my imagination, visual
and conceptual reframing, to diverge into new perspectives. How? After selecting highlights
/original statements of these chapters, I used my imagination to generate boards that contain
illustrative metaphors such as visuals, quotes, and conceptual sketches, sometimes intentionally
provocative and incorporating humor.
Brief description of my approach:
- What’s unique & original? Most of the time, I used as springboard different emotions, to
transform an original statement into emotionally colorful shadow projections via metaphors.
-Divergence may hopefully bring across these concepts in a powerful way that provides enhanced
emotional resonance to different people. Most of the time, divergent playing with an emotional
roulette was the tool selected for this purpose, which by its output hopefully reflects both, my
imagination and conceptual understanding.
-Besides emotions, I also used multiple intelligences and MBTI as divergent springboards.
- Last, I included my conceptual visual expression of one of our daily paradigms.
My creative transformation process:
Emotionally
Highlight Emotional colorful
statements springboard shadow
projections

3. Rationale & References
I became interested in using emotions and metaphors for this assignment after reading the article:
Todd I. Lubart& Isaac Getz (1997): Emotion, Metaphor, and the Creative Process, Creativity Research Journal, 10:4, 285-301
A number of ideas in the article captured my attention, and led me to explore them in practice via this
assignment:
- Metaphor generation is a unique creative ability, and thus seemed relevant for creating my final product.
There are conventional metaphors and novel ones, which bring new or unusual views. The later ones are the
most useful ones to extend the insights a topic or problem.
- The authors posited the power of emotions to access concepts with creative potential, in particular its use
in
metaphor creation.
- Emotions are alike creativity, multidimensional, extremely rich!
- Emotions are attached to concepts and images, and imprinted in our memory.
- Metaphors are believed to generate emotional waves that propagate throughout the memory system.
Depending on the target emotional make-up, metaphors achieve different resonating power. Thus, can
help us to achieve memorable associations between distant concepts, and therefore, hopefully consolidate
our learning about a specific topic. In summary, metaphors charged with emotions are a recipe for creative
thinking and should lead to achieving memorable learning!
My creative transformation process:
Emotionally
Highlight Emotional colorful
statements springboard shadow
projections

4. Original statement:
Everyone has some creative talent!
“Visual” metaphors
playing emotional
roulette:
(Mamacita, this chainsaw is dedicated
to your sense of humor! )

5. Original statement:
Creativity tends to flourish
where it is valued
“Visual” metaphors
playing emotional
roulette:

6. Original statement: If creativity means having original ideas that are useful,
it can relate to any activity in school and any subject in curriculum
“Visual” metaphors
playing emotional
roulette:

7. Original statement:
Motivation is a key
enabler of creativity! Shoot for the moon. Even if you Inside (the creative experience) is
miss, you’ll land among the stars. inquiry, the expansion of emotional
Brian Littrell depth and range, the tuning of the
“Written” metaphors spirit and the quest for meaning.
Peter London
(quotes)playing
emotional roulette:
If you can dream it, you can
do it. Walt Disney
An essential aspect of creativity is not
Even if you fall on your face, being afraid to fail. Edwin Land
you're still moving forward.
Victor Kiam
One very important aspect of
motivation is the willingness to
stop and to look at things that no
People often say that motivation
one else has bothered to look at.
doesn't last. Well, neither does
This simple process of focusing
bathing - that's why we recommend
on things that are normally taken
it daily. ZigZiglar Be miserable. Or motivate yourself.
for granted is a powerful source
Whatever has to be done, it's always
of creativity… Edward de Bono
your choice. Wayne Dyer

8. Original statement:
The capacity to imagine is
also a key enabler of
creativity!
“Conceptual” metaphors
(visual and written)
playing emotional
roulette:

9. Original statement:
The teacher’s defined
creativity was found to
covarywith their preferred
way of teaching
Conceptual metaphors
(visual and written)
playing emotional
roulette:

10. Original statement:
The teacher’s defined
creativity was found to
covarywith their preferred
way of teaching
I illustrated how teachers
may tap intomultiple
intelligences to connect to
students about the theme
of “chocolate”
Chocolate song by Kylie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izShX8VW1HY

11. Original statement:
The teacher’s defined
creativity was found to
covarywith their preferred
way of teaching
Visual metaphors &
stereotypes
playing the
multidimensional
MBTI chords:

12. Emotions, emotions, emotions:
“We are feeling machines that think!”
We are at all times
Quotes from video source: : http://www.illywords.com/2012/10/we-are-feelings%C2%B4machines-that-think/
feeling “emotions”!
Scale warning:
High risk of
emotional hijacking

13. Original statement:
Creativity is
multidimensional
“Visual” metaphors
playing emotional
roulette:

14. Original statement:
To use a variety of changes
psychological measures conscious
emotions
is helpful since each
thinking
unconscious
one brings not only
different
perspectives, but also
unique
strengths and
weaknesses curiosity questions
Eureka
Visualization shows a
passion
strengths
personality dashboard with
weaknesses
multiple psychometric
outputs in progress. Emotional
Different instruments help
hijacking
Emotions
to reveal the underlying
sketch of hypothetical
internal components,
facets, and complex ways
of working in the
background…
Love at
first sight

15. Original statement:
The 21st Century education system faces
significant improvement challenges, and
has three key barriers:
1. Competition is key driver of 2. Standardization of teaching
educational improvement this results in often means less risks and less
high competition for resources, and collaboration
lower program autonomyfor teachers
3. Teacher’s recent accountability for student’s
standard test results discourages focus on
creative efforts… since standard tests do not
actually measure creativity…

16. Daily Paradigm : creative focus,time management, and priority choice