Visualising Mutual Engagement

Being creative is a key part of a healthy lifestyle, contributes to our wellbeing, and is an inherently social activity (Csikszentmihalyi, 1991). There are many definitions and understandings of creativity (see Sternerg, 1991, and Boden, 1994 for an overview) ranging from cognitive and computational models (e.g. Boden, 2003; Wiggins, 2006) which help us to understand the mechanics of human creativity through to practical approaches to increasing creativity (cf. De Bono, 1992). Similarly, there are many studies of creative practice (e.g. Candy and Edmonds, 2002), creative processes (e.g. Shneiderman, 2000), and collaborative creativity (e.g. Paulus and Nijstad, 2003) which help us to understand the social and inter-personal nature of creativity.