Emergent Strategy Responses
Principles
- Q: Do you find any of these principles more difficult to achieve than others in your own creative practice? How?
When I went through the principles of Emergent strategy, I agreed with most of them, but just found two of them difficult to achieve. The first one is “Small is good, small is all.” I believe that small is good and a great work is composed of many small pieces. However, it is also necessary to have a comprehensive understanding of the work or project. And there are rules which might be visible or not, or that manage and integrate all the small ones.
The second one is “Less prep, more presence.” This is definitely true for experts who master the skills with rich experiences. Too much preparation might restrain creativity. Being at present can enable the subject to be more focused on the object and his or her senses and feelings. But this doesn’t apply for less skilled or experienced people.
Elements
- Q: Without overthinking it: which of these elements brown describes most immediately feels evident as part of your creative work, and how? Or, if none of them do, which feels like one you might intentionally integrate, and why?
I feel that “Resilience and Transformative Justice” most evident to me. Creation itself entails a long, exhausting and sometimes even miserable process. The creator goes through a repetitive cycle of “self-affirmation and self-denial”, in which Resilience is absolutely a must to regain energy and confidence to continue to create. This is also where the vitality of the art work comes from.