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Authors:

 Amuchástegui, Rodrigo H.

Title:

 Creativity and intelligence: Howard Gardner's proposal

Keywords:

 intelligence, creativity, multiple intelligences, Gardner

Abstract:

 The determination of the degree of an individual's intelligence has been one of the central concerns of the psychological investigations, linked mainly with the logical-linguistics area. Gardner has presented a novel perspective with his theory of the multiple intelligence of interest from a theoretical aspect and in its pedagogical projection.
This author justifies methodologically seven intelligences, each of which has its own characteristics and can therefore be considered autonomous, putting in question the idea of a single intelligence understood as general faculty. Obviously such attitude has a strong polemical charge facing a philosophical and psychological tradition which has considered the subject.
His classification implies to distinguish intelligences related with objects such as space, logicomathematic and body kinesthetic intelligences, intelligences "free from objects" such as the linguistic and musical ones and the personal forms of intelligence in its intra and interpersonal aspect. In particular the projection of such intelligences to the thematic of creativity supposes to consider also a multiple creativity in direct connection with the already mentioned intelligences. The affirmation of the individual as creative in general general would not be based in this way, being necessary to emphasize its specific field.
His analyses have as base the working of the brain. "I find - he says - that the findings about the brain serve as the court of last instance, the last arbiter among descriptions in competence of cognition". But the performance of the individuals in the different cultures is what allows Garner to stand for the different intelligences. Basically intelligence is understood as the ability to solve problems or create valuable objects in one or more cultural fields.
Especially our work wants to synthesize critically Gardner's ideas and higlight the visualspace area and its corresponding intelligence in its linking to a heuristic of the design that finds in this author a possibility of founding it theoretical and pedagogically.
Rodrigo Hugo Amuchástegui postmast@saber.fadu.uba.ar Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Urbanismo. Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Rodrigo Hugo Amuchástegui is Professor of Philosophy graduated at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1987. He teaches as Adjunt Professor in Heuristics and in the subject Spaces of Power-Spaces of Knowledge that are dictated at the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism of the University of Buenos Aires. He is part of Cabinet of Heuristics led by Arq. Gastón Breyer and he investigates these topics since 1995. Rodrigo Amuchástegui is also categorized investigator in the Investigation Program: Color, Light and Visual Semiotics. He works the topic of light in the formation of subjetivities, in particular in religious buildings and public institutions, presenting this topic in congresses of the specialty. He also has several works concerning Foucault, the images and the architectural forms. At the present he is carrying out his doctorship on this matter. Rodrigo Amuchástegui has also been member of jury of Evaluation of Reports of Advance of Investigation (Faculty of Social Sciencies, Univ. of Lomas de Zamora)the