What is 'creativity'?

What is creativity?

Earlier whenever i heard the word “creativity” I always associated it with "Out of the Box Thinking". The first thing that strikes our left brain is that creativity always relates to creating what has never been thought of. But have you ever imagined that the right brain is never active when your left brain takes charge of your thinking process. But then after the visual art class I realized the being creative not only means thinking with the help of right brain but also thinking simple ideas. We are so much tied up with our linear world (controlled by the left brain) that thinking laterally (by the right brain) is a seldom thought. Thus to be creative, I would say “How can I depict this same beauty in more simpler but different way than it is now as shown complex by Mother Nature?” Answer this simple question and you will find yourself being creative. Being creative essentially means you adore the beauty around you and reciprocate it in some manner back to the surrounding or the society. Perhaps the greatest single barrier to becoming more creative is the fear of risk. Creativity demands that we step into the unknown.
Here I would like to mention the 3 pillars of creativity:

1. Do it yourself:
The moment you get a new idea, start making a list. Don’t worry about order. Order comes later. Just puke everything out in movable bits of content so that way when it self-organizes, you can easily categorize it.

2. Do it with available resources:
When you are constrained by the resources available to you, you are bound to think “Out of the Box”. No theorems of operations management or rather any other management is going to help you in calculating the “Optimum” use of resources. Rather do not even let this happen. Use everything that is available to you. One way to be creative is to use and fit a resource purposefully into something. For example, if I am making a pen-stand out of matchsticks then probably a soft toy is not useful. But what if I make a base plate and put the soft toy near to the pen-stand so created as if it seems that the cute little creature is holding the stand for you!

3. Do it anytime, anywhere:

This is the most important pillar as this is the pillar that according to me symbolizes the real creativity and also bears the fruit of joy. Creative idea is just a random thought that occurs to you that you want to make something like this…or something like that…
This is where your thought process begins. And the fun part is it can begin anywhere. Be it classrooms, be it meeting or board rooms, be it while you take bath, etc. The desire to fulfil the idea just born into the 20gram data centre will lead to infinite tonnes of joy.

Always remember, the moment you have a creative idea, the next instant is of fear. What if I am not able to make this! But learn to trust, recognize, follow, and push your personal instincts and signs. Do not let your self-confidence ever go low. Shall you start losing the self-confidence; recall the 3 pillars of creativity.

Minesh Doshi-FSB 2

My painting during the vacation

I have enclosed my painting which i did during the summer.
Its an inspiration from Jackson Pollock and i have used the mediums you have taught us i.e ; oil paints, acrylics and poster colors.
Thank you,maam, for inspiring me sooo much!
Dhvani Kothari -[Fsle]

Faculty response; Am impressed to see Dhvani painting during the vacation. Wish, more students do so!Keep it up, Dhvani!

Unconventional 20!

"How can we imagine trees that do not exist and that too 20 of them".The first reaction that everyone has to make
20 trees which are not conventional.But finally on the day of submission, the outcome was amazing!!!.
There were trees made out of moths,names,balls,hearts,dots,semicircles,squares,triangles,alphabets and so on.
Suniti mam was overwhelmed with the imagination of the students.23 students had 20 unconventional trees...
~what a sight to watch 460 designs~
Maybe someday we will be able to see some of our own created trees somewhere on this earth or even god is impressed by our
creation to create such trees..!!!!!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Here are few of those beautiful and mind-blowing designs