Martha's Collection

4th Year Major Project about Getting Creatively Stuck and hopefully how to get un-stuck!

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Last one, Rule 7 William Beachy

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Same Series but this one is by Adam Wagner

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William Beachy

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William Beachy

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William Beachy

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William Blechley

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William Blechley’s blog posts on Go Media

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"Since the digital age, things like books, DVDs, records and CDs have started to disappear. It’s eroded people’s sense of having to own physical products because everything is virtual instead, and this is a reaction."

BBC News - Etsy, Folksy and the mania for making crafts (via marthasfourthyear)

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Mihaly Csikszentmihaly: Interview with him talking about his research into;

Flow: Creativity and the Evolving Self

Suggestions from his research are that creative people seem to come from either wealthy families where the children have been exposed to diversity or poor families and they have had to overcome some trauma, over 50% of the people he researched the father died before they were aged 10.

Also suggests that the current (need to check date of filming) idea / stereotype of the struggling artist is not necessarily true that up until the Renaissance artists were upstanding citizens and members of society.  Perhaps now artists work is not received well by the public / community which leads to them becoming miserable, particularly amongst play-writes and authors.

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Impact of creative initiatives and wellbeing

Really interesting, took lots of notes in my book from this.

Defining what creativity is etc.

http://www.creativitycultureeducation.org/wp-content/uploads/CCE-Literature-Review-Wellbeing-and-Creativity.pdf

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creative requirements

http://membres-lig.imag.fr/dugdale/papers/ICEC09%20Final.pdf

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Creativity and Giftedness

http://www.uk.sagepub.com/upm-data/7029_treffinger_intro.pdf

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Really useful - about why art based research and not knowing where you’re going is difficult but discusses the potential benefit and advantage of being open to uncertainty

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PERFECT - need to find a free edition

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So, after talking with Kirstie, simply focusing on researching limitations as just mentioned for my Major Project is enough work to do for my dissertation - so I don’t need to worry about all of the other topics I thought I might try and fit in!!!! I am expanding testing methods on myself to...