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Adam Torgerson Assignment 17 Analysis 1. what did you find 1.1. interesting about the article? Several people found the idea that creativity is multiplied, rather than summed, when people work together interesting. Several people also liked the fish scale analogy, describing how creativity can help create a positive working environment. 1.2. not interesting about the article? Interactive art was not very popular. Nathan also had made some interesting points regarding the author's four essential pieces of creativity, and how they were arbitrary and gave arguments for other essential pieces he felt the author neglected to mention. 2. what do you consider the main message of the article? Many people described the main point as illustrating the need for combining individual and social creativity. Several people specifically mentioned the idea that the renaissance man is dead. 3. pick ONE of the four systems described in the article (Envisionment and Discovery Collaboratory, Caretta, Renga Creations, CodeBroker) and discuss which aspects of individual and social creativity they support!
4. have you encountered interesting “boundary objects?” which ones? what features made them interesting? Ryan had an interesting answer in which he said that he was a boundary object himself for some forms of art such as music. He doesn't know how to play guitar, but he knows which songs he likes and may be able to illustrate why he likes them. Phong described a white board as a boundary object, something that he often uses as a tool for social creativity. David brought up the interesting point of taking any social technology as a boundary object. Language itself is a boundary object, as are other social technologies such as videoconferencing, computers, pagers, etc. All of these technologies allow groups to coordinate and create. The other answers described specific systems, such as the EDC, WebCT, or projects within this course. 5. describe the most creative activity from your OWN life and analyze the individual and social aspect of your creative act! Nathan's description of using fake money in his class was very interesting. He has students use this money to buy supplies such as glue, cardboard and marbles. There is a complete economic system, with loans available based on credit history (classroom behavior), social capital in the form of wearing red or green cards, trading money for consultancies, and I would imagine a way to earn money as well. Some of the other descriptions were building a house for an elderly woman, maintaining a social network of friends, playing soccer and making music. 6. which computational systems do you know which support individual and/or social creativity? The Swiki and EDC were common answers. Photoshop and other commercial software was mentioned. Ryan has a fairly interesting answer about a testing tool called StarTeam, which eliminated a middle man in his testing environment and allowed developers to notify testers of fixes directly. I wonder how this relates to bug tracking software as seen in various forms in the Open Source community. David mentioned several tools for making collaborative music which sounded interesting, but I would like to hear more details.
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