YOUR GUIDE TO

Relevance in Creativity

Welcome readers from ◎ Your Guide to the Mechanics of Creativity

Creating with Combinations (Composition)

That was quite the creative cyclone in ◎ Your Guide to Content in Creativity! We created by:

1. breaking an object into its parts (analysis)
2. generalizing the parts (classification)
3. finding alternatives to the parts
4. bringing parts together (synthesis)

In the above diagram, we have two different objects and we will demonstrate creativity by combining them in different ways. Further on in this guide we will explore the concept of RELEVANCE but let’s look at combining first.

A ◈ We start with looking at combinations in composition (physical). One thing to note is that in this case, the two objects have no direct parts in common. If we want, we can combine the two objects completely to get a “new” idea but in the patent…