¿Ayuda un entorno creativo a la adquisición de competencias creativas?

Abstract

Numerous studies have shown that the environment affects creativity. This means that the creativity of an individual can be enhanced by placing him or her in an environment with the appropriate stimuli. However, these studies focus on the creativity of results in situ. The present study differs from the previous ones in that the aim is to analyse the effect of this environment on the acquisition of creative skills, since nowadays most university classes are taught in conventional classrooms, without any of the so-called creative stimuli of the environment. For this purpose, the present work shows the results of a practical experience, in which a number of creativity classes in the field of design engineering have been given to two homogeneous groups of students. For the first group the classes were given in a conventional classroom, while for the second group the same classes were given in a classroom with creative stimuli. In order to compare the level of acquisition of creative skills, two groups solved the same creative problem in the same classroom without stimuli, so that it was not the classroom stimuli that influenced the creativity, but that it was only due to the competence acquired by them.