Emotion and Creativity

by Mike Radford

Introduction

Creativity may be seen as a complex process of informational processing within a given framework, or, as Margaret Boden has termed it, "conceptual space." It is in the context of such frameworks that the process of managing information makes sense. The framework offers the possibilities within which information can be combined and separated, grouped and regrouped, and may be seen to define the boundaries of that which makes sense both within the space and at its parameters. Boden suggests that we can, by playing around with the variables within a "conceptual space," be creative. We can generate multiple possibilities in terms of meaningful articulations.