Catena: Playing Techniques
While working with Catena, I noticed a few patterns that can make the game easier to approach without making it mechanical.
Catena Mundi: The Chain of Things
There are many examples of dreams influencing the course of human history. Mendeleev’s dream of the periodic table is the best-known case; Kekulé’s dream of the benzene ring and Niels Bohr’s dream of atomic structure belong to the same family of stories. In each case, the dream supplied not so much a finished answer as … Read more
Catena Mapping: A Creative Problem-Solving Method
Catena Mapping is a technique for generating ideas and exploring unfamiliar or overly familiar problems from new angles. It can be useful both for people who work professionally with ideas and for anyone facing a difficult creative task. The method is based on Catena, a word game in which you connect two given words by … Read more