DYNAMIC AGENCY: MODELS FOR CREATIVE
PRODUCTION AND TECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS*
Francesco Amigoni, Viola Schiaffonati, Marco Somalvico
Politecnico di Milano Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Project.
Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione. Politecnico di Milano. Italy.
Among the most promising modern approaches to creativity, a very important one makes use of
non-standard problem solving techniques of artificial intelligence for addressing methodological
descriptions of creativity.
The purpose of this paper is to present creative dynamic agency as a novel partial description of
creativity, which is based on a recent and powerful technique of artificial intelligence, developed by
authors and called dynamic agency.
The proposed approach is embedded in an epistemology on creativity which is envisaged in a more
general epistemology of rationality, namely in the framework of the debate between weak and
strong approaches to artificial intelligence.
The position of the authors is that creativity cannot be fully modelled. However, with the adoption
of creative dynamic agency, we can extend the size of rational elements and reduce the size of
irrational elements (which still continue to be present) in both product and process of creativity.
1 - INTRODUCTION