Understanding Creativity Through Symbolism and Perspective

1. Create a tableau • Which symbolizes • PEACE

2. C r e a t i v i t y Source .. Resource .. Force

3. Think / Discuss • How Creative was your tableau? • If you were a facilitator to ‘your’ group – how you would have made the process more creative?

4. Situation? • Your child has a new flashy eraser in his box. He claims his friend has given him. But you have been off-late seeing too many of these “gifts” in his bag/box lately. Also he has been pestering for all kinds of flashy stationery. He had also flicked something few days back from the neighbour’s house. • Looks like he isn’t telling you the ‘right’ story. • What would be your response

5. So how much creative you think you are? So what is creativity?

6. So, what is creativity?

7. COLLECT • Collect symbols of peace – time 2 min. • Meanings • Pictures • Clip arts and icons • Quotations • People, Names • Events • Movies • Stories, Poetry

8. COLLECT • The Raw material principle • The Variety Principle • The ‘Death by an Adjective’ principle • The Wait and Watch principle

9. Situation? • Your child has a new flashy eraser in his box. He claims his friend has given him. But you have been off-late seeing too many of these “gifts” in his bag/box lately. Also he has been pestering for all kinds of flashy stationary. He had also flicked something few days back from the neighbour’s house. • Looks like he isn’t telling you the ‘right’ story. • What kind of observations / raw material you can collect ? • What kind of observations / raw material you can get the child to collect?

10. Views • Draw a flower – DRAW A FLOWER • Draw the flower - as if to be given to a beloved • Draw the flower – as if part of a large flower show • Draw the flower – as if crushed by a shoe • Draw the flower – as if food for an insect • Draw the flower – as if decaying in a dustbin

11. Point of Views • Describe the flower • how a honeybee sitting on the flower will see it • how a cloud will see it • how a dew drop will see it • how an ant crawling on the stem below will see it

12. Views Point of Views Play with views Play with point of views

13. Situation? • Your child has a new flashy eraser in his box. He claims his friend has given him. But you have been off-late seeing too many of these “gifts” in his bag/box lately. Also he has been pestering for all kinds of flashy stationary. He had also flicked something few days back from the neighbour’s house. • Looks like he isn’t telling you the ‘right’ story. • How can you view this above differently? • From what different point of views can you see the above? • How can the child view this differently? • From what different point of views can the child see the above?

14. Symbol for Peace • Make a list of symbols /things that you can use to convey “peace”. • Take the material in number of 10-15 • Using ONLY this medium and • NONE of the symbols you collected ☺ • Design a symbol for PEACE

15. Constraints

16. Convey Constraints Combine Construct Redo Redo Redo

17. Situation? • Your child has a new flashy eraser in his box. He claims his friend has given him. But you have been off-late seeing too many of these “gifts” in his bag/box lately. Also he has been pestering for all kinds of flashy stationary. He had also flicked something few days back from the neighbour’s house. • Looks like he isn’t telling you the ‘right’ story. • What kind of constraints can you put on yourself? • What kind of constraints can the child put on himself?

18. C r e a t i v i t y • Thinking Skill • Habit of Mind • Way to learn

19. C r e a t i v i t y • When one works from the premise of creativity one becomes very accepting and that helps. We realise that creativity is not just a visually appealing painting, a pep piece of music, but something that is more fundamental, more pervasive, daily, ….. A thinking process, a way of life

20. C r e a t i v i t y • Genuine ignorance is... profitable • because it is likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity, and open mindedness; • whereas ability to repeat catch-phrases, cant terms, familiar propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind with varnish waterproof to new ideas.

21. Is this a Creativity Situation? • Your child has a new flashy eraser in his box. He claims his friend has given him. But you have been off-late seeing too many of these “gifts” in his bag/box lately. Also he has been pestering for all kinds of flashy stationary. He had also flicked something few days back from the neighbour’s house. • Looks like he isn’t telling you the ‘right’ story. • Can we believe that the child is creative? • Creative enough to understand? • Creative enough to explore alternatives? • Creative enough to create his own wisdom?

22. C r e a t i v i t y • Creativity is within us. • Creativity comes out with a constraint. • Creativity is manifested as JOY