Chaos as Creativity

Catherine E. Wilkins

Chaos as Creativity

Autores

Catherine E. Wilkins

Western University

Palavras-chave:

chaos, chaos theory, creativity, creative thinking, future thinking, library planning, planning, models, theories, music

Sinopse

Chaos and planning is integral to the creative process when planning for the future. The initial impetus for the writing was the author’s dissertation that provided a framework for planning future libraries. Chaos theory and chaos is reviewed broadly from a generalist perspective across multiple disciplines and over time from ancient times to the present. An abstract planning process is presented along with a diagram that facilitates mapping the current environment. Identifying intrinsic and extrinsic influences present in the environment provides a process to map a probable future environment. To illustrate how the planning process works music is used as an analogy. Future oriented writing is used to encourage discussion, inspire thinking, explore imagination, and challenge the status quo to consider various views of chaos in relation to strategic planning. Library planning using the chaos strategics process is a proposed planning methodology that integrates chaos as creativity.

Capítulos

Preface

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Chapter 1

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Chapter 2

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Chapter 3

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Chapter 4

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References

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Appendix

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Front matter

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Biografia Autor

Catherine E. Wilkins, Western University

Catherine Wilkins is inspired by the collegial culture of Western Libraries and Western University. She provided leadership for The D.B. Weldon Library 2006-2018 and is now Librarian Emeritus. In her role at Western she worked collaboratively with colleagues and students on a variety of strategic library initiatives, was elected to Senate and actively served on numerous University Committees. Catherine holds a BMus (Western), MLS (Western), MEd (Toronto), Ed D (Toronto). Catherine’s professional experience and scholarly achievements support her view that the academic library, as it has throughout history, continues to play a key role in supporting lifelong learning, teaching and research in the academy. It is important to balance the value of the academic library as a place of inspiration, scholarship and social interaction with the globally accessible digital library. Libraries hold culture—past, present and future that is paramount for intellectual freedom supporting scholarship and research and is fundamental to fostering democratic values. Catherine resides in London, Ontario actively enjoying the arts and music cultural milieu.