Natural & Creative Living Patterns, Part 1, Patterns for Creative Living: Patterns for Creative Living

In this paper, we introduce the core pattern and 12 patterns for CREATIVE LIVING in the Natural & Creative Living Patterns. Natural & Creative Patterns, as a whole, consists of 37 patterns with the purpose to help people make their daily lives more human and comfortable by bringing out their everyday creativity, which is classified into three categories: NATURAL LIVING, CREATIVE LIVING and HEALTHY LIVING. Of three categories, this paper focuses on patterns for CREATIVE LIVING. The patterns were developed through mining dialogues with Daisuke Yosumi, Arisa Kamada and Takashi Iba, who are practicing natural & creative life in their own way. Through the mining dialogue, we got the following findings that are important for CREATIVE LIVING: First, establishing CREATING ENVIRONMENT is important to have a life which one can bring out his/her creativity in daily life; Second, one's own CYCLE OF A DAY will be helpful to keep being creative; Third, arranging one's lifestyle FOR DEEPER THOUGHTS AND CREATIVITY would mature what he/she is coming up with and realize that; In order to have a creative living, plan one's LIFE TO LIVE CREATIVELY and take action in bigger scale. With the purpose to adopt the findings above in everyday life, this paper presents the core pattern, Natural & Creative Life, and the following 12 patterns for CREATIVE LIVING: Creativity Space, Appointment with Yourself, Blocking Out Noise, Creative Work in the Mornings, Time to Zone Out, Sleep for A Step Up, Investment in Experiences, Seeds for Idea, Creative Mates, Minimum Cost of Living, Long Term Effort and Periodic Change of Life.