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Scarcity and creativity

Scarcity can be closely related to creativity. When people find themselves in a position of lacking of resources, they have to squeeze their imagination to come up with solutions.

Quotes that relate scarcity with creativity:

1. Scarcity of resources breeds creativity by Will Ainscough
2. Life of scarcity teaches creativity by Jag Randhawa
3. Scarcity is a springboard to creativity by Jeremy Till
4. Scarcity doesn't have to be a limitation. It can be an opportunity by Jeremy Till

Project "scarcity is beautiful"

The project Scarcity is Beautiful, by Paulo Goldstein, experiments with the idea of lacking of resources. He and his team design an empty room and it's furniture with material found through London streets.

What if instead of adding, one redistributes what is there already? by Paulo Goldstein.

Remix art

What if instead of adding, one redistributes what is there already? This quote by Paulo Goldstein reminds me of Remix culture.

In the case of remix art, it is piece of media which has been altered from it's original state by adding, removing, changing pieces of the item, etc. It appropriates of created stuff and changes / mix it with other materials to create something new.

ReFunct Media by Benjamin Gaulon

Benjamin Gaulon is an artist, researcher and art collage lecturer, who focuses his study and work on planned obsolescence, consumerism and disposable society, between other topics. In his piece of work ReFunct media he makes multimedia installations with obsolete electronic devices.

The relation between his work and scarcity is that he tinkers with, from my point of view, one of the main causes of scarcity: the fact of consuming too much, wasting too early and too often, and keeping on consuming resources while we could use what we already have.

The relation between his work and creativity is that he is creative building kinetic sculptures using obsolete devices.