Synergetics as a Theory of Creativity and Its Planning

Quite often the word ‘creative’ refers to a single person who produces outstanding kinds of work, such as music, paintings, poetry, technical innovations, or scientific ideas. How a creative person makes his or her achievements is one of the great mysteries of the human mind. In the context of this Chapter, the meaning of the word creativity encompasses a much wider scope. It refers to the creativity of a whole community, not only a city, but even a large important area. While it is practically impossible to plan the creativity of a single person, planning that of a whole community may be feasible. This is because a large group of people may produce ideas or products by their cooperation. This then leads one to the question where we can find guidelines or paradigms for organizing the creativity of large groups. Such guidelines may possibly be found if we look at nature.