Surprises interruptions, with idle time, significantly increase employees’ creative performance due to continued thinking about work/goals, enabling idea incubation.

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Incubation

Creative expression is a powerful tool for well-being. Exposure to visual art and participation in creative activities creates positive brain changes.

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #WellBeing

Transformational creativity is creativity deployed to make a positive, meaningful & potentially enduring difference to the world, compared to transactional creativity, creativity deployed in search of a reward.

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #PositiveChange

The ability to use emotion, positive or negative, to help us understand experiences & for thinking/decision making allows us to be proactive, creative participants rather than reactive.

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Proactive

Creativity is the spontaneous development of new ideas and out-of-the-box thinking. Creativity is a necessary prerequisite for innovation, but they are not the same thing.

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Innovation

People who engage in leisure activities & daily creativity (e.g. entertaining a child, solving daily problems) achieve higher scores in creative actions, novelty & self-perception of creativity.

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #DailyCreativity

People can unlock their creative potential & reach new heights of achievement by embracing irritation & using it as a tool to inspire fresh ideas and methods. 

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #ResponseInhibition

Every time you listen to music, see a film, read poetry or dance, you are biologically changed. Our brains carry the signature of our artistic experiences. 

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Neuroaesthetics

WHO recommends that arts & cultural policy makers ensure equal, accessible arts engagement opportunities for all, recognizing population health benefits.

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #PublicHealth

Using narrative approaches to science communication has 3 benefits: engagement, persuasion & learning/memory retention).

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Narrative

Art experiences can ignite the imagination, challenge conformity to norms/worldviews & allow us to envision multiple, empathic ways of being in the world.

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Compassion

The sensory experience of sweetness facilitates performance on tasks that require cognitive flexibility, but does not increase performance on non-creative tasks.

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Sweet

How you leave relationships, creates an emotional residue that accumulates inside you. A decision to honor the end of a relationship, to take personal responsibility for actions that promote mutual healing, leave vestiges that build strength and positivity.

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Ghosting

People perceive a large difference in color to be less than the sum of the incremental differences between two widely separated shades – demonstrating a principle of diminishing returns.

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Perception

Group-based creativity is more importance than individual brilliant ideas because creative collaboration develops the abilities to take initiative, make decisions & interact constructively together.

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Collaborate

Creative self-efficacy predicts creative activities & achievements. Emotional intelligence significantly predicts emotional intelligence & creative self-efficacy with self-esteem plays a mediating role.

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #SelfEfficacy

Listening to music promotes overall design creativity on the novelty dimension, but does not effectively promote divergent thinking or impair convergent thinking.

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Music

Creativity appears relatively stable in older age, with exception of those creativity skills that are affected by abstract reasoning (SPM), which appear susceptible to aging.

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Aging

While psychedelics such as psilocybin & MDMA impair the encoding of memories that rely on recalling specific details, they can enhance the encoding of memories that rely on familiarity.

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Hallucinogens

The ability to change how we frame our experiences & beliefs about any given situation is key to creative resilience. Reframing helps us to see situations from a different perspective to discover new insights.

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Resilience

What we call creativity is simply the re-arranging & re-configuring of your current mental structures in order to build a new mental structure that matches and addresses a relevant problem.

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #ProblemSolving

By seizing the means of imaginative production, we can transform creativity into a collective liberation tool that disrupts & overturns the very regimes of digital power that enclose and exploit it.

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Abolitionist

Brands are embracing a spectrum of diversity in fashion & beauty that is helping dismantle restrictive gender roles through gender fluidity & allowing individuals more authentic expression

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Fashion

Creativity is related with enhanced phenotypic plasticity, dopaminergic release & testosterone levels in both sexes. Evidence shows that creativity is sexy: it is considered attractive in potential mating partners.

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Evolution

Relational Space Gallery presents ~
Beyond Gender: The Future of Being Human

Opening night - Thursday, June 22nd
(Exhibition runs June 22, 23, 24th, 2023​)
​​547 West 27th St Suite 201, NYC (hosted by Ceres Gallery)

For more information:
https://www.relational-space.org/beyond-gender

Investments in technology-supported creativity is important, but machines currently lack human-level understanding. Machines will replace some (science/engineer) tasks but new tasks will also emerge.

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #AI

Thinking creatively cultivates new possibilities which in turn, facilitates new outcomes, nurtures relationships, builds trust & enables your most authentic self to come forward. 

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Authentic

Youth participation in artistic activities (music, performance, visual arts) improve academic performance, narrative & graphic creativity & future professional practice.

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Performance

Normal anxiety encourages a proactive life, inspiring change through new daily strategies. Neurotic anxiety prevents this, as it tends to replicate the ordinary, the known & the familiar.

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Anxiety

To unlock creative potential: 1-Problem-solving before sleep so the subconscious mind works on the issue at rest; 2-Change up where & when you think; 3-Switch between brainstorming & taking a walk in nature.

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Rest

Awareness of co-workers as being integral to the creative process increases social closeness & reduces instigated rudeness towards, as well as perceived rudeness from, those co-workers. 

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #CoCreate

The best creative tasks to induce flow are able to incorporate a wandering mind (eg musical improvisation/writing/painting) so you follow a train of thought & make productive use of it to achieve your aims.

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Flow

Routine has a positive effect on creativity when it acts as a mediating mechanism that reduces cognitive workload & allows employees more creative efforts in a specific direction.

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Routine

Love & creativity go hand in hand because when you create, you demonstrate your love — for the supported cause, the ideas you’re promoting, for the talents you have & for the world as a whole. 

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Love

Creativity is a recombinatory process, taking novel bits of data & combining them uniquely, to create something new - an idea is creative if it is novel, useful & surprising.

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Ideas

Uncertainty disrupts sense of control - when people feel they have the ability to work through the uncertainty by thinking & acting creatively, stress is reduced & creative action is more likely.

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Control

We're moving to a creativity economy, where what matters is innovation in things that computers can't achieve, such as flexible thinking, blending knowledge, exploring consequences & innovative design.

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #CognitiveFlexibility

Interdisciplinary teams including neuroscientists, psychologist, & architects increases the likelihood for spaces designed on research findings that support curiosity, serendipity & creativity.

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Collaborate

Creative thinking may be related to, though not fully redundant with, the ability to vividly imagine the future, observed through  brain connectivity profiles of highly creative people. 

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Future

By fostering mindfulness, instructors & learners form relationships with a positive, constructive connection. Mindfulness enables instructors & learners to gain efficiency, creativity & productivity.

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Mindfullness