Ecological perspective

A view of human creativity which metaphorically draws from concepts found useful in the study and description of biological ecosystems. The ecological perspective emphasizes the dependence of creative people and creative projects upon the physical, social, and cultural recourses within their creative ecosystems and upon the arrangements, relationships, and interdependencies which connect creative people to those recourses, to one another, and to people able to drive and create values from their creative actions. (Harrington, 1990, 1999)