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Proceedings
6th International CREANDO Symposium on Creativity in Economics, Arts and Science
Zermatt / Valais, Switzerland, 1991


Topic
IRRITATION AND CREATIVITY
Factors Inhibiting or Fostering Creativity

Chairman:
 Gottlieb GUNTERN

Speakers

Zaha M. HADID
architect,
Iraq/England


Gabriel GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ
writer, Nobel Prize for Literature 1982, Columbia


Helmut MAUCHER
Chairman of Nestlé SA, Vevey, Switzerland

Anatol RAPOPORT
mathematician, philosopher, specialist in peace and conflict research, concert pianist, Canada.

Harald SZEEMANN
curator, art historian, organizer of art exhibitions, Switzerland


Eleanor TRAYLOR
professor of literature and rituals in music and dance, USA

Interesting questions:

Why does GARCIA MARQUEZ let die his colonel while this man is urinating below the branches of a tree?

Why does the Iraqi architect Zaha M. HADID recommend us to make a trip on the Moscow Lenin-Hill at five o'clock in the morning?

Why didn't Fidel Castro and the organizer of art exhibitions, Harald SZEEMAN, not meet for a discussion?

What are, according to the chairman of Nestlé, Helmut MAUCHER, the field conditions fostering creativity in an enterprise?



Professor of literature, Eleanor W. TRAYLOR, asks, what do slave stories of past centuries have to do with today's white Rock 'n' Roll?



Why does mathematician and peace researcher Anatol RAPOPORT, that the very language of natural science is creative?



Summary
In the Swiss tourist resort Zermatt a group of creative personalities discuss factors that favor or inhibit creative accomplishments.
The book combines insights from various cultures able to stimulate a dialogue on creativity — and thus on the human potential to survive in a confused and confusing era.



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• Excerpt: Das kreative Transaktionsfeld