Thank you for being first out of the starting blocks Mila Ilieva

Conference Paper Creativeness

Creativeness has a deep connection to workable analogies and metaphors.

E.G:

Economy can be understood as organism (not only as machinery).

Financial crises can be understood as heart disease.

Powerful analogies and metaphors do indeed reinforce creativeness.

Thank you for your contribution Stephen I. Ternyik . I can see lots of possibilities when using the metaphor of a " heart" in relation to financial crises and the economy. As an example, if a country is faced with stagnant economic activity, how to get it "pumping" again.

I will certainly go through the conference paper for additional insights.

Kheepe Lawrence Moremi

http://www.stephen.ternyik.scienceoflife.nl/Projects/Translational_Synopsis/translational_synopsis.html

This analogy could also interest you.

Yes sure.

Thank you Liqaa Habeb Al-Obaydi for your participation and Stephen I. Ternyik for additional insights.

Dear Mr. Moremi!

I argue that the aim is to strenghten the links between creativity, and the use of analogies and metaphors to make innovation research process to produce more value with possibilities for applications in different (related) fields:

1) J. Hey, et al. (2008). " Analogies and Metaphors in Creative Design", International Journal of Engineering Education 24(2), Available at:

Article Analogies and Metaphors in Creative Design

2) Tiziana Bertoncelli& Oliver Mayer& Mark Lynass (2016). " Creativity, Learning Techniques and TRIZ", Procedia CIRP 39 ( 2016 ) 191 – 196, Available at:

Article Creativity, Learning Techniques and TRIZ

Yours sincerely, Bulcsu Szekely

Bulcsu Szekely

Excellent contribution, merging science, art and creativity.

You have my attention Bulcsu Szekely

I shall chew on the research that you have shared. I saw Nonaka and Takeuchi in the bibliography. This tells me, I should go and buy some 'popcorns." On a different note though, the opening introductory of the sentence of the research paper is contentious. Some people believe the world is "spikey" and not "flat," but that is a discussion for another day.

Thank you for your contribution Barbara Sawicka Balqees Al-Musawi

Metaphors and analogies are voiced as key tools for enhancing creative design. Metaphor dominates as the design tool for early problem framing design phases whereas analogy dominates as a tool for concept generation.

Thank you Carine Temegne Nono for your participation and contribution. In what way does "analogy" dominate as a tool for concept generation?

Metaphors and similes are two ways of seeing connections, understanding differences, noticing similarities and making 1 + 1 = 3, and therefore very much part of what it is to be creative. That said they can also be manifestations of uncreative thinking when you reach for a well-worn metaphor such as something being the tip of an iceberg for example. George Lakoff's wonderful book, Metaphors we live by, is really helpful here...

Thank you for your participation and contribution Bill Lucas . Highly appreciated. I will look out for George Lakoff's book.

Bill Lucas Carine Temegne Nono Barbara Sawicka Stephen I. Ternyik Bulcsu Szekely

Thank you for your participation and contribution. This was a very insightful thread. See below, some of the key words and phrases that came up:-

“Creativity creates metaphors.”

“Merging science, art and creativity.”

“Word formation..”

“Metaphors and analogies are voiced as key tools for enhancing creative design.”

“Metaphors and similes are two ways of seeing connections, understanding differences, noticing similarities and making 1 + 1 = 3, and therefore very much part of what it is to be creative.”

“strenghten the links between creativity, and the use of analogies and metaphors to make innovation research process to produce more value with possibilities for applications in different (related) fields.”

I think yes.

Thank you for your participation and contribution Shakir Faris Tuleab

Good morning,

It is not what you say - it's how you say it that makes people remember what you said. In the first room, if a writer can get a reader to laugh - "they" will not forget what yu said. This is just the opposite of writing, ortalking, down to people and, indeed, the home of creative writing.

Lou

Thank you for your participation and time Lou Schmitt

You are "off topic" though.

You are welcome. That's the creative part.

Cheers,

Lou

"Divergence," I get it, Lou Schmitt

That's right on the money. Have a good day Kheepe.

Lou

Seems yes...

Thank you D A Gayan Nayanajith

Try to search for metaphorical thinking and creativity on google scholar. There is a huge body of literature on that particular subject.

Thank you for your time and contribution Frank Ulrich . Will search Google Scholar

Article Exploring the Relationships between Analogical, Analytical, ...

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.161.4709&rep=rep1&type=pdf

https://www.redalyc.org/pdf/1293/129313736008.pdf

https://www.academia.edu/download/47160527/j.2162-6057.2009.tb01303.x20160711-5930-g8uj3d.pdf

Thank you Cristian Ramos-Vera for generously sharing the papers above. They will come in handy.