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RADIO FREE CORK

Broadcasting on Cork City's creative frequencies. Beyond the signal. Between the lines.

// Field measurements: Creedons and the POETIK framework

The unit you've seen referenced elsewhere on this site, "the Creedon", was first registered as an anomaly in proto-magnetic field readings at UCC in 2009. Nobody set out to measure creativity or, more specifically, creative gravity, but researchers eventually had no choice but to accept this reality.

Academics later developed the POETIK framework to make sense of those readings: six dimensions that together account for most of the variance in what the instrument picks up. To date it is our most comprehensive attempt to determine the exact parameters of creative gravity. The POETIK framework is as follows.

Playfulness — willingness to risk something without knowing if it'll work.
Originality — measured against your own creative history, not everyone else's.
Effectiveness — whether the thing does what you meant it to do.
Transmission — whether it changes anyone who encounters it.
Insight — how well you understand your own process.
Kindness — what it gives back to everyone making things around you.

Objects and places sometimes register a Creedon reading too, but never across all six dimensions. Only people, and groups of people, can register a full spectrum Creedon score. Interestingly, artificially generated content registers zero Creedons.

// Nexus locations

Certain places in Cork hold a measurable field even when nobody's in them, a residual creative gravity built up over years of genuine use. We believe these to be nexus locations. Some of the better-known ones include the Everyman, Filter, Fred Zepplin's, Coughlan's, and the Sextant.

// Who we are

Radio Free Cork is a participatory arts and culture platform developed and funded by Ferocious Composure. It is designed to document and grow Cork's creative community across universes, whatever the frequency.

// Further reading