Further Reading

Altshuller , G & Shapiro,  R [1956] On the psychology of Inventive Creativity [in Russian] .– also called ‘About a Technology of Creativity’. Voprosy Psychology, Questions of Psychology, June [6], 37-49.

Altshuller, G [1984] Creativity as an Exact Science: The Theory of the Solution of Inventive Problems. Trans. Anthony Williams. Gordon and Breach Science Publishers.

Altshuller, G [1997] 40 Principles : TRIZ Keys to Technical Innovation. Trans Shulyak, L  and Rodman., S Worchester, Massachusetts: Technical Innovation Center

Boden, M A (1994a) The Dimensions of Creativity. MIT Press, Cambridge, London

Boden [1994b] The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms

Boden, M A. [2001] Creativity and Knowledge. In A. Craft, B. Jeffreys and M. Leibling (Eds) Creativity in Education. London: Continuum.

Csikszentmihalyi, M [1991] Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience Harper Perennial NY..

Gero [1990] Design Prototypes: A knowledge representation schema for design.  AI Magazine 11(4) 26-36

Kalu Rinpoche [1995b] Profound Buddhism: From Hinayana to Vajrayana Clearpoint Press San Francisco

Kalu Rinpoche [2002] Secret Buddhism: Vajrayana Practices Clearpoint Press San Francisco

Kemp, M [1990] The Science of Art. Optical Themes in Western Art from Brunelleschi to Seurat  Yale University Press, Yale

Kemp, M [2001] Visualizations. The 'Nature' Book of Science and Art. University of California Press, CA

Koestler, A [1964] The Act of Creation, Arkana. Reprinted in 1990 by Penguin, London

Kurtz, C. and Snowden, D.J [2002] The New Dynamics of Strategy: Sensemaking in a Complex world, IBM Systems Journal, IBM Global Services Cynefin Centre for Organisational Complexity

Nydahl, O [1996] The Way Things Are, Blue Dolphin, Nevada

Nydahl, O [1998] Ngondro: The Four Foundational Practises of Tibetan Buddhism, Blue Dolphin, Nevada

Nydahl, O [2004] The Great Seal: Limitless Space and Joy, Firewheel Publishing, NY

Pahl, G and Beitz, [1984] Engineering Design, London, Design Council

Pahl, A-K. [2001] TRIZ and Multi-dimensional Thinking: Exploiting Contradiction and Analogy’. Proc. 1st ETRIA, Bath, UK, November

Pahl, A-K. [2002] Contradiction and Analogy as the basis for Inventive Thinking, TRIZ Journal, on-line, August.

 Pahl, A-K. and Bogatyreva, O, [2003] Nested, Chained and Intersecting or ‘Complex’ Contradiction, Proc. TRIZCon, Mass, USA, April.

Pahl, A-K [2005a] A Preliminary Report investigating Team Creativity using Meditation as a Template for Co-evolutionary Design Process. In Proc. ICED Conference, Melbourne, August 2005. 

Pahl, A-K [2005b] Map of the Design Process In: Pahl, A-K [2005] PRIZM Rulebook: The PRIZM Game Company Limited, Bath, UK

Pahl, A-K, Newnes, L  and McMahon, C [2007] A Generic Model for Creativity and Innovation - Overview for early phases of Engineering Design. Journal of Design Research Special Issue on Innovation in Early Phases of Engineering Design.

Pahl, A-K and Newnes, L  [2007] Co-evolution and Contradiction: A Diamond Model of Designer-User interaction. Special Issue of Insite: Informing Science Journal ‘The double-helix in Design’.

Snowden D.J (2000) The Art and Science of Story. Business Information Review 17(3), 147-156.

Snowden D.J (1998a) Organic Knowledge Management Part I: The ASHEN mode l- an enabler of Action Knowledge Management 3 (7)

Snowden D.J (1998c) Organic Knowledge Management Part 3: Story Circles and Heuristic-based interventions Knowledge Management 3 (10), 15-19

Snowden D.J (2002) Complex Acts of Knowing: Paradox and Descriptive Self-awareness Journal of Knowledge Management Special Issue 6 (2), 100-111

Snowden D.J (2005) Simple but not simplistic: The Art and Science of Story Strategic Communication Management

Wallis, G [1926] The Art of Thought, Harcourt, Brace and Company, NY.

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