MODELS OF CREATIVITY ABROAD - MIGRANTS, STRANGERS AND TRAVELERS

Migration, the role of the stranger and travelling are all creativity- enhancing although for different reasons. The migrant model verifies K oestler's hypothesis that new ideas often arise out of combinations of separate frames of thinking. Simmel's theory of the stranger emphasiz es the increased objectivity of limited commitments. Rudwick's recentl y suggested model of liminal experience might help us explain why the seemingly purposeless activity of travelling might also stimulate crea tivity.