The Power of Creative Collaboration

The last in the series on collaborative circles. The creative roles in a collaborative circle, discussed with reference to both Christopher Alexander's forces and ideas from ecological and embodied cognition. Special emphasis on collaborative pairs.

Sources

• Michael P. Farrell, Collaborative Circles: Friendship Dynamics and Creative Work, 2001
• Louise Barrett, Beyond the Brain: How Body and Environment Shape Animal and Human Minds, 2011
• Anthony Chemero, Radical Embodied Cognitive Science, 2011

Mentioned

• Emily Dickinson, "A narrow Fellow in the Grass", 1891 (I think version 2 is the original. Dickinson's punctuation was idiosyncratic, but early editions of her poetry conventionalized it.)
• Talking Heads, "Psycho Killer", 1977
• Paul Karl Feyerabend, Killing Time: The Autobiography of Paul Feyerabend, 1995
• Michael J. Reddy, "The conduit metaphor: A case of frame conflict in our language about language", in A. Ortony (Ed.), Metaphor and Thought, 1979 (wikipedia article)
• Ken Thompson, "Reflections on Trusting Trust" (Turing Award lecture), 1984

Credits

The picture of the umbrella or rotary clothesline is due to Pinterest user MJ Po. Don't tell Dawn it's the episode image.