A large number of empirical studies have confirmed that natural landscapes recover our fatigue from work and enhance our positive emotions. The Attention Restoration Theory (ART) mentions that the soft fascination of the environment stimulates our creativity. The study focuses on forest landscape and urban streetscape to evaluate which environments support creativity. Besides, through experiencing the different landscapes, how do those environments reflect on the performance of creativity? In addition, creativity is sensitive to emotional responses, therefore, the study explores whether emotion affects creative performance. This study invited 100 students with design background randomly assigned to view a 3-min video with fascination forest landscapes or urban streetscape, and then fill out the PANAS mood scale and ATTA Torrance Test of Creativity Thinking, which led the study to evaluate the emotions and creativity performance generated by the experience of the landscape. The results found that the elaboration of the four dimensions of ATTA was significantly higher in the fascination forest landscape than in urban streetscape; through post hoc, the forest waterscape was better than urban streetscape. Compare to urban streetscape, forest waterscape predicts the elaboration. However, there was no significant effect on adding emotion in this model. The performance of different stages in creativity may be affected by landscape types. The findings suggest that fascination with forest landscape improves elaboration ability, which shows more details of the description, but when adding the emotion variable in the model, it would not be able to predict the elaboration.
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