Letting it cook
The underrated part of a creative routine
Leisure - Josef Pieper By leisure, he means a stillness to allow for creative thought, for contemplation
A reception to the world. Thinking, in the western sense, has been split into
- Ratio - The analytical part. Gathering, storing, organising, analysing and sense-making
- Intellectus - The creative part.
The tools we have now are the best for ratio. What about the tools for intellectus?
A sense of acceleration has come with the Industrial Revolution. Leading to a crises of acceleration. Each crisis had its solution, and now we’re in an environmental and informational one.
The Tyranny of the Moment; fast and slow time. We can’t force creativity or thinking. It depends on receptivity.
The mind chatter - an internal monologue, never ending. We can quiet the mind but where in our culture are we creating the ground for contemplative creation like this?
Framing the challenge - information environmentalism. Suggesting that we should preserve the design of nature for the functions they serve. Like marshes, seas, rivers, glaciers etc. Similarly, preserving and creating sanctuaries for the mind.
- Become aware of the problem and take it seriously
- Design physical spaces to channel contemplation
- Designing contemplative virtual spaces too
- Designing contemplative information practices
Course - Information and Contemplation
Keeping track of habits, watching the emotional/physical effects of being online.
My rough notes on a paper by David Levy, presented at Google Tech Talks