1. A complex process

Yet at the heart of the activity of a design office, laboratory or workshop, creativity remains a process in which the relationships between cause and effect are very poorly understood , as is frequently the case in fields where several scientific disciplines meet. Here, the very term "process" is not to be taken in the strict sense of a succession of stages, but in its meaning including the notion of complexity in Prigogine's sense .

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(1) - PRIGOGINE (I.) - L'homme devant l'incertain. - Éditions Odile Jacob (2001).
(2) - NIU (W.S.) - The philosophical roots of western and eastern conceptions of creativity. - Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology,...