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The Storm of Creativity
- Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life
- Narrated by: Robin McKay
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Release date: 11-24-16
- Language: English
- Publisher: University Press Audiobooks
- Whispersync for Voice-ready
Regular price: $14.95
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Publisher's Summary
Although each instance of creativity is singular and specific, Kyna Leski tells us, the creative process is universal. Artists, architects, poets, inventors, scientists, and others all navigate the same stages of the process in order to discover something that does not yet exist. All of us must work our way through the empty page, the blank screen, writer's block, confusion, chaos, and doubt. In this book, Leski draws from her observations and experiences as a teacher, student, maker, writer, and architect to describe the workings of the creative process.
Leski sees the creative process as being like a storm; it slowly begins to gather and take form until it overtakes us - if we are willing to let it. It is dynamic, continually in motion; it starts, stops, rages and abates, ebbs and flows. She maps the arc of the creative process by tracing the path of water droplets traveling the stages of a storm.
Leski draws on examples of creative practice that range from Paul Klee to Steve Jobs, from the discovery of continental drift to the design of Antoni Gaudi's Sagrada Familia.
Creativity, Leski tells us, is a path with no beginning or end; it is ongoing. This revelatory view of the creative process will be an essential guide for anyone engaged in creative discovery.
The book is published by MIT Press.
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