But, for those receptive to new ideas and seeking to expand their horizons, an awareness of art’s dizzying and divergent ways will undoubtedly enrich and expand the landscape of their engineering ...

is there any evidence to support the logic versus art stereotype? Psychological research has approached this question by distinguishing between two styles of thinking: convergent and divergent.

Often considered the central cognitive process at the root of creativity, the authors found it in both the art and the science students. Divergent thinking refers to the way a person might face an ...

I recently finished reading an interesting book by Rick Rubin, The Creative Art: A Way of Being ... involves testing the person’s divergent thinking (generating possible solutions to the ...

Art + Engineering Initiatives are opportunities for Northwestern ... Though their purposes and approaches may differ, they share a sense of experimentation and divergent thinking. These exhibitions, ...

“Engaging with art helps people tolerate ambiguity and ... a classic creative task used to encourage something called divergent thinking, where you generate multiple solutions to a problem ...