Biography Mind mapping about Tahera Mohamed
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Sunday, 17 July 2011
Monday, 4 July 2011
Novelty, Creativity, Innovation and Invention.
The ability to take existing objects and combines them in different ways for new purposes. "creativity".
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Novelty, Creativity, Innovation and Invention.
At the mention of this line in the PowerPoint slides “The community and the society which has supported and accepted his idea, permitted his invention to existed as something new that is valued enough to be added to the culture.” I stopped for a second to think. On what standards does the society decide how useful the creative inventions are? Are some inventions not valued as they deserve to? Does it depend on the person himself to fight for his production to be admitted by his society? What if a person is not courageous enough?
As I have mentioned last week. The society puts the borders for us and decides what’s useful and what’s not. And as I note among my peers, most individuals in societies are followers, meaning they would not dare to take a step outside the usual borders, they would just go along with whatever the society decides too afraid to be left out. Lots of dreams have been left aside and lots of talents have got lost because of a mistake on sides, individuals mistake and society’s. It would be such a shame if the society has missed out on a great new invention because of the unusual nature of it and rejecting it instead of adopting the idea and improving it.
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Defining creativity - a creative picture of a friend
In an age where modern cities are dominant, we’re starting to forget out original culture, our traditions, and all the things that had been a part of our history or the history itself. The world is truly becoming one small village with all the means of communication that are available and the trends that are being forced into our heads to follow and let go of our culture, the similarity in all developed and developing countries regarding technologies, fashion and lifestyle. All of that has replaced our original culture, therefore, I look at this very traditional picture of a woman called “Sharaf” in her most traditional clothes as a creative picture, to have revived and represented her original culture and life style as a very creative picture. I see a story, not only an outfit and a palm tree in this picture. It’s a picture of a woman that goes way back before the 90’s in her very traditional clothes and slippers, she’s holding a basket which is made of a palm fronds that usually carries food, either dry rice that needs to be cleaned or dates that have been picked from the palm tree. And in the house yard, they used to light up the fire using wood to cook the food.
That cultural scene is almost dying and not often would happen, only at occasional days where families would gather to celebrate an occasion.
Another cultural picture, showing two girls in traditional clothes with gold hair accessories, this picture shows the state of the rich people in the past and how they used to dress up whereas not many people at that time could afford such an extravagant lifestyle with fashion and clothes. Children in the past used to play around in nature not having all modern games that are available nowadays. Bonds of friendships were much stronger whereas they’d share a lot in the streets of the neighborhood and the yards of their houses.
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