When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process. That is fairly well understood, at least in the arts… Something is always killed. But what is less noticed in the arts—something is always created too.
-Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Design Process Kills Creativity / Design Process Creates Creativity
When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process. That is fairly well understood, at least in the arts… Something is always killed. But what is less noticed in the arts—something is always cre…