This participatory exhibition explored creativity, how new ideas are developed, and how we can all become more creative. What is creative is often decided by society, and so in this exhibition, participants were asked to select the objects that best exemplified creative work.
Exhibition Details
Creativity in Everyday Life
- October 19, 2019–January 5, 2020
- Gallery 241
This was a participatory exhibition about creativity, how new ideas are developed, and how we can all become more creative. What is creative is often decided by society, and so in this exhibition viewers selected the objects that best exemplify creative work.
As a participatory experience, viewers were asked to do three things:
- First, explore the objects and ideas in the Defining Creativity panels along the outer walls. Defining Creativity explained current understandings of creativity, how you are creative, how other people are creative, and how you can develop your own creativity.
- Then, pick up three wooden tokens and test your understanding of creativity with the Creativity Game in the middle of the gallery. Apply what you’ve learned to vote on which objects are the best examples of creativity. The Creativity Game invited you to judge the level of an object’s creativity by voting for three objects from GMD’s collection. Some were selected for their groundbreaking designs, others were included because of their innovative method of production, and still others were chosen because they changed the way we think and act. Each had an interesting story to tell about how they were invented or produced and–most importantly–why they are good examples of creativity.
- Finally, invite your friends to play! On November 4th, 19th, December 2nd, and 16th, voting jars were removed from the objects that got the least votes.
The final grouping of Best Examples of Creativity was created by guests. Did your choices make the cut?
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