Creativity and imagination

During the past few weeks we have been starting to get into new topics, or at least that seems, creativity and innovation are new topics discussed but they are always present in our lives.

According to Forbes, innovation can be described different trough different points of view,  it can be described by words, feelings, descriptions or criteria already stablished. [1] But in my opinion, innovation can be defined as the act to create something that change the status quo of a certain product, service or way of thinking.

There are countless of examples related to innovation. One of the biggest companies that is often called innovative is apple, with their product change generations, with the creation of the Macintosh, the iPod and more recently the iPhone.

Most of this ideas came to the minds of great geniuses, most of them used their imagination to get out of the box.

Imagination described by the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is "To imagine is to represent without aiming at things as they actually, presently, and subjectively are. One can use imagination to represent possibilities other than the actual, to represent times other than the present, and to represent perspectives other than one’s own." 

Many people today think that using imagination is a childish thing, that there is no way and adult can use the imagination let alone if is an engineer, but i digress, i believe imagination is the core of many thing we have today, it allows us have a unique way to visualize things, specially if you are in the design world. 

Over all we have to encourage the development of imagination in children and let their ideas flow without filter, making them creative adults and possibly creative geniuses.

Greenwald, M. 12 March 2014 [online] https://www.forbes.com/sites/michellegreenwald/2014/03/12/what-exactly-is-innovation/#5899a7f35e5a [Accessed 4 March 2020]

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 14 March 2011 [online] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/imagination/ [Accessed 4 March 2020]