The NICE Way and Possible Practice

Expand the Systems Models of Creativity and Contemporary Practice Theories

A Novel Way of Using FORZA Flash Pop-Up Soccer Goals (Source: Oliver Ding, 2020)

This post is the section 10 of The NICE Way and Creative Actions. A related article is The 3I Model: Idea, Initiator and Initiatee.

The “Process as Product” approach has a theoretical assumption that creative action is an ongoing and unfolding event with a reciprocal relationship between initiator and initiatee in the context of dynamic platform and other social context.

The 3I model describes the system of creative actions at the micro level, we still need another model for explaining the dynamic historical development of collective culture at the macro level. The above discussion about the social system model of creativity points to some limits of the model. It’s time to expand the model in order to cover more types of creative behaviors.

The Original Systems Models of Creativity

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…