Explains the MDCC framework to explain creativity across scales and temporal dimensions. Shows potential applications.

1. Multi-dimensional creativity
A computational perspective
Multi-
Dimensional
Creativity
MDC-1
culture

2. Multi-Dimensional
Creativity
MDC-1
culture
Creativity is not something that
happens in your head.
Creativity is a systems property.
It happens in the interaction
between neurons, people,
teams, societies, and cultures.
Creativity is multi-level.

3. Creativity happens
over different
temporal periods
across levels.
Creativity is multi-
dimensional.

4. OK, then what?
Well, we can start by mapping
research fields…
scaledimension
time dimension
brainpersonsmalltolarge
groups
societyculture
interactions
ephemeral
structures
stable
structures
long-term
structures
Journal of Cognition
and Culture
International Journal of
Cross Cultural Management
International Journal of
Intercultural Relations
Memetic Computing
Marketing Science Sociology & Social Research
Culture & Psychology
Journal of
Management Studies
Anthropology in Action
European Journal of
Social Psychology
Theory and Society
Journal of Cross-Cultural
Psychology
Creativity and
Innovation Management
J of Applied Psychology
Creativity Research Journal
American Psychologist
Thinking & Reasoning
J of Business and Psychology
Thinking Skills
and Creativity
European Journal of
Education and Learning
The Journal of
Creative Behavior
Psychological Science
Learning, Memory
J of Consciousness Studies
Frontiers in Neuroanatomy
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Journal of Human Evolution
Neurology
Consciousness and
Cognition
NeuroImage
Human brain mapping

5. And we can identify gaps in the
literature…
scaledimension
time dimension
brainpersonsmalltolarge
groups
societyculture
interactions
ephemeral
structures
stable
structures
long-term
structures

6. And identify interactions
between levels and time…
scaledimension
time dimension
brainpersonsmalltolarge
groups
societyculture
interactions
ephemeral
structures
stable
structures
long-term
structures
top-down influences,
bottom-up and lateral emergence

7. And build computational agent-based simulations to examine such interactions…

8. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21650349.2015.1026941