Platform Creativity: Domain, Field, and Person
This article is the section 9 of The NICE Way and Creative Actions. This section introduces Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s Social Systems Model of Creativity and reviews its core concepts: Domain, Field and Person in the age of Platform.
As we discussed early, the sociocultural approach of creativity research highlights the issue of cultural context. Appropriateness is defined by social groups, and it’s culturally and historically determined. In order to understand the impact of social context, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and other researchers developed the Social Systems Model of creativity during the 1980s and 1990s. The diagram below shows the model contains three components: person, domain and field. Csikszentmihalyi said, “Creativity occurs at the interface of three subsystems: An Individual who absorbs information form the culture and changes it in a way that will be selected by the relevant Field of gatekeepers for inclusion into the Domain, from whence the novelty will be accessible to the next generation.” (2014, p.166)
The Systems Model of creativity is suitable for traditional domains such as art, scientific, film, performance, etc. However, the model is reliant on a…
