The Complex Systems & Service Design lab continues its Design Talks series with another contemporary topic.
This lecture is titled “Linking aesthetics with creativity: the functional role of learning and development” and will be held by Prof. Ioannis Xenakis. The event will take place as usual in the CSSD lab space (room B.1.4, entrance from Rallis Street, opposite the entrance of the primary school), on Wednesday 6 March at 19:00. The talk will last approximately one hour, and an open discussion will follow.
About the topic
One of the most interesting but still unresolved theoretical problems in creative thinking concerns the relation between creativity and aesthetics. In standard models of aesthetics one can hardly find a functional explanation that connects these two notions in a single framework. Aesthetics and creativity remain strangely connected and, at the same time, disconnected as two separate research fields that have parallel trajectories. The aim of this work is to approach this problem from a non-art-related perspective. Explaining how self-directed creative explorations demand the achievement of significant changes in knowledge constructions (novel and appropriate ideas), the relation between aesthetics and creativity should be necessarily based on learning and developmental functions. We show that the standard models of the modular aesthetic mind, are facing strong limitations in incorporating genuine learning and developmental functions and as a result in explaining genuine changes in knowledge constructions during such explorations. As an alternative, a Constructivist model of interaction aesthetics is proposed.