LICILikhaan Institute of Creatology & Innovation
Likhaan Institute of Creatology and Innovation
The science of creative cognition & innovation

Creatology.

The systematic study of creative emergence — how genuinely novel and valuable ideas, methods, and systems come into being through human cognition. Conceived in the Philippines in 1971; carried forward for five decades.

1971conceptualised
1972first published
4foundational domains
3Ps@Enative framework
The forge — craft, making, and emergence

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Definition

Creatology is the systematic empirical study of creative emergence — the process by which novel and valuable ideas, artefacts, methods, and systems come into being through human cognition, studied across the individual, group, organisational, and societal levels.

The Science

A bridge science

An integrative science that synthesises findings from the cognitive, educational, and organisational sciences around an object none of them takes as its primary subject. Read more →

Framework

3Ps@E

Person, Process, Product, in operative Environment — the discipline's native lens, articulated in 1972. Read more →

Research

A falsifiable programme

A methodology and a set of testable claims that distinguish a science from a body of practice. Read more →

Education

Forming creatologists

A documented record of creativity courses and teacher formation in Philippine education. Read more →