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<p>One of the more important questions about creativity is what makes a creative production a revolution? The present contribution follows the analysis of the development of scientific knowledge proposed by Kuhn (1962) in ‘<italic>The Structure of Scientific Revolutions</italic>,’ to propose a typology that may contribute to an answer. This typology, based on a retrospective analysis of a given domain of productions, distinguishes between two types of creativity: normal creativity and revolutionary creativity. Creative revolutions refer to ‘game changing’ productions in the domain, creating a turning point in the development of this domain. These creative revolutions constitute major disruptions within the domain, since they display both a high degree of novelty and sufficiently high value for future creative productions to take them as a new <italic>point of reference</italic>. The proposition to distinguish between normal and revolutionary creativity is explored as a complementary view to other typologies on creativity.</p>
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One of the more important questions about creativity is what makes a creative production a revolution? The present contribution follows the analysis of the development of scientific knowledge proposed by Kuhn (1962) in ‘The Structure of Scientific Revolutions,’ to propose a typology that may contribute to an answer. This typology, based on a retrospective analysis of a given domain of productions, distinguishes between two types of creativity: normal creativity and revolutionary creativity. Creative revolutions refer to ‘game changing’ productions in the domain, creating a turning point in the development of this domain. These creative revolutions constitute major disruptions within the domain, since they display both a high degree of novelty and sufficiently high value for future creative productions to take them as a new point of reference. The proposition to distinguish between normal and revolutionary creativity is explored as a complementary view to other typologies on creativity.

The Structure of Creative Revolutions

Creativity. Theories – Research - Applications

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One of the more important questions about creativity is what makes a creative production a revolution? The present contribution follows the analysis of the...

The Structure of Creative Revolutions

Published Online: Dec 07, 2023

Page range: 41 - 49

Received: Nov 18, 2022

Accepted: Apr 14, 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ctra-2023-0003

Keywords
creativity, creative revolution, typology

© 2023 Eric Bonetto et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

The Structure of Creative Revolutions

Published Online: Dec 07, 2023

Page range: 41 - 49

Received: Nov 18, 2022

Accepted: Apr 14, 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ctra-2023-0003

Keywordscreativity, creative revolution, typology

© 2023 Eric Bonetto et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
creativity, creative revolution, typology