Category Archives: Social Type

The Participatory Art and Design Models  Many people have noticed how performance has been stripped from ordinary lives and concentrated in immensely rich “talents” in Hollywood and other entertainment centers. Millions and tens of millions of families do not perform, … Continue reading →

The Space Sharing (or Collaboration) Models The system model broke the individualist spell that had limited creativity research for generations. It got people interested in seeing the communal, social nature of creativity (Montuori et al, 1999; Casti, 1997; John-Steiner, 2000; … Continue reading →

The Social Movement Model A particular type of social computation computes a social trend or movement from supersaturated interests or frustrations among a population of people (Marcus and Fisher, 1986; Greene, Journal, March 1997; Horsehairs, 1988; Goliard and D’andria, 1999; … Continue reading →

The Social Computation Model One of the more interesting social models of creativity, especially in a time when knowledge management, organizational learning, and cognitive competitiveness are ascendant, is this social computation model (Salomon, 1999; Greene, Journal, Sept. 1998; John-Steiner, 2000; … Continue reading →

The System Model This model might be an obvious candidate for the next type of creativity models–the system models. However, this model is really a social model that gave rise to later systems models as an entire family of related … Continue reading →

The Community of Ideas Model In some ways this is the most elemental of the social models of creativity. This model sees creativity as the result of a social process, not between people, but a social process between ideas (Greene, … Continue reading →