Creativity

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Culture	‘Eliminate the nonessential’ and Other Advice for Artists Artist and teacher Kit White offers a toolkit of ideas and a set of guiding principles for creative thinking. Kit White \| Oct 1
Science & Tech	“Hallucinating” AIs Sound Creative, but Let’s Not Celebrate Being Wrong The term “hallucination,” which has been widely adopted to describe large language models outputting false information, is misleading. Its application to creativity risks compounding that. Oliver Bown \| Oct 13, 2023
Culture	How New Ideas Arise Architect and poet Paolo Belardi traces the many conditions and situations that have inspired extraordinary ideas across the arts and sciences. Paolo Belardi \| Jan 26, 2023
Culture	How Drawing Helps Us Observe, Discover, and Invent The practice of drawing is a simple and accessible means to become more mindful and aware of our inner and outer worlds. Andrea Kantrowitz \| Nov 11, 2022
Culture	Ten Tips for Cultivating Creativity, From the Director of the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at MIT The challenge is not how to “teach creativity” to children, but rather how to create a fertile environment in which their creativity will take root, grow, and flourish. Mitchel Resnick \| Mar 19, 2020
Culture	How the Resistance of Materials Opens the Space of Reverie The creative process demands openness to the unexpected and a recognition that what we “have in mind” may not be at all what is beginning to transpire before us. Christopher Bardt \| Feb 10, 2020