Dfn of creativity: creativity is one’s ability to come up with original ideas
Where does creativity happen:
- Having aha moments, can’t force it to happen
- Asking yourself questions
- Changing your environment to draw on unrelated
- Immersing yourself in challenge
- Chain of events
What is flight to a bird?
- Survival
- Needs to be taught
Emergence: occurs when an entity possesses qualities that its individual parts do not possess on their own
Ex: Plastics team has machines, facilities, and working women. The pieces to recycle are just an input, however turning plastic into a meaningful product creates tangible value in the form of a new good as well as employs many women, creating its own ecosystem that would not function or have value without its parts.
PART 1: 8 things, define and example for each
- Interdependence → how factors(ideas, goals, people, projects) in a relating system all impact each other; pyramid from the bottom up
- Ex. 1: a lot of the projects take advantage of the interdependence between people and the “hierarchy” that exists between people
- Malnutrition tried to partner with community leaders such as the reverend david because of many people’s interdependence on him and the church
- Ex. 1: a lot of the projects take advantage of the interdependence between people and the “hierarchy” that exists between people
- Holism → a system that is viewed as it own entity; as a sum of its parts; looking at the pyramid from the top down/seeing the big picture
- Ex. 1: Recycling facility — the public would just see it as something that takes in waste and produces product, forgets that the facility has many parts (machines, workers, managers, etc)
- Multifinality → Multiple unique outcomes resulting from a single initial product/system (win-win situation for all)
- Ex. 1: all teams: fieldwork
- Equifinality → understanding that a goal can be achieved in a variety of ways/ paths
- Ex. 1: PlasTech Ventures and Cloop used to be part of the same team with the same goals, now they are both trying to reach the same goal but through different approaches.
- Safemotherhod and Ukweli — both want to end maternal mortality
- Differentiation → each part of a system has its own specific function
- Ex. 1: Malnutrition team breaking up and assigning roles after week 1 in SL
- Working on specific parts like Manufacturing, Research, Supply Chain, etc. that interact to run the larger system
- Ex. 1: Malnutrition team breaking up and assigning roles after week 1 in SL
- Regulation → assessing the system to make sure that it is achieving goals to take corrective action and hold everyone accountable
- Ex. 1: NewTrition checking in with Translators to make sure our interviewing questions are being conveyed and received correctly.
- Weekly team meetings — keep us all on track
- Abstraction → looking at broad ideas instead of focusing on specific details (zooming out or zooming in)
- Ex. 1: Safe Motherhood: trying to inspire grassroot action to work to raise awareness for broader issues through specific mini-stories
- Leverage Points → understanding that there are small things that can be done to create a large effect; places in a complex system where a small shift can create big changes
- Ex. 1: Recycling Facilities: Gaining a relationship with Vincente Co to open up our network and knowledge
- KJ was the leverage point for the malnutrition team to be able to use the bakery
- Implementing a fine to give birth at home to encourage people to go to the clinic which saves a lot of people’s lives
PART 2: Solution to hyacinth removal.
- Follow oil fracking ideas → pay local, waterside people of the community a small stipend for access to their areas
- Other community members can be hired to collect and process the hyacinth, income generating solution for the community
- Previous workers of hers now in charge of transportation/distribution for her.
Some Applicable Emergent parts:
- Interdependence/Holism/Differentiation: Each process now depends on the process before it, and the more successful each step is the more the greater system thrives
- Regulation: Paid on commission, so how much hyacinth they bring in instead of a salary day to day, forming accountability
- Leverage Points: Advertise how workers are helping community and fishermen to create more sales
- Accountability: not paying everyone because that would be impossible
- Multifinality: Community is reaching its goals and so is the entrepreneur