Creativity on Design: Systemic components. More Co-design, Less Teaching?

Abstract

Is designing a creative activity “per se”? Are work spaces more or less prone to creativity than the spaces of training in design? It is shared here the partial results of the study that seeks to characterize the influence they have on the development of creativity, immersion in culturally differentiated professional contexts, according to the systemic components described in the models of creativity proposed by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Teresa Amabile. Through a process of organic inquiry that combines ethnographic techniques by superimposing analytic-interpretative feedbacks of open coding and Network theory to construct generative hypothesis by means of abductive reasoning, it realizes the presence of systemic components prone to creative development accompanied by forms of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation that inhibit or enhance creativity, and where the social relations constituent of the studied systems are oriented more to fulfillment than to creation. The general hypothesis derived from the study points to the intervention of the sociocultural components of the systems, proposing the collaborative design (codiseño) as a probable prolific creative method.