Designing a framework to investigate creativity enablers and inhibitors in the digital era

We are going through a digital transition century in which digital technologies are totally reshaping the way in which people live and learn, the way they work and socialize. Human being is living in an onlife reality, a new experience of a hyperconnected reality that is modelling our digital culture and affecting the social, behavioural and cognitive development of digitally enhanced individuals, who are growing up with digital habits (smartphones, tablets, video games, etc.). In this transition, creativity has been recognized as one of the most distinctive human skill, especially in the necessary collaboration between human and machine. A fundamental issue that arises from this context concern the impacts of the digital evolution on creativity skill especially for the new digital generation. The objective of this paper is to present a Creativity 4.0 Framework based on the design process that highlights the most crucial factors of creativity in the digital era supporting the identification of the enabling and inhibiting condition that the digital transition is bringing on human creativity.