Creativity Runco, Mark A
2010, 2007, 2010-08-04
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An integrative introduction to the theories and themes in research on creativity, this book is both a reference work and text for courses in this burgeoning area of research. The book begins with a ...discussion of the theories of creativity (Person, Product, Process, Place), the general question of whether creativity is influenced by nature or nurture, what research has indicated of the personality and style of creative individuals from a personality analysis standpoint, how social context affects creativity, and then coverage of issues like gender differences, whether creativity can be enhanced, if creativity is related to poor mental or physical health, etc. The book contains boxes covering special interest items including one page biographies of famous creative individuals and activities for a group or individual to test and/or encourage creativity, as well as references to internet sites relating to creativity. * Breaks down the major theories about creativity but doesn't restrict to a singular perspective * Includes extensive citations of existing literature * Textbook features included (i.e., key terms defined)
In this essay we talk about environments and agencies and how they are, adversely, in the mainstay of the current idea of transdisciplinarity, multidisciplinarity and transgression in university ...doing that tends to be disciplinary, monocratic and conservative, because, strictly speaking, the so-called academic requires a conceptualization of knowledge in the simulacrum of having a 'research object'. Thus, we want to emphasize that epistemic practice is colonized and its power is given to those who have power and therefore we dare to walk under labyrinths, in the cracks, between blurs of things not established, sometimes denied but potent in creativity and also imaginative. We start from a proper and appropriate reflexive perspective and tend to present provocations that can contribute to the already well-established discussion of thinking about human and non-human relations. To this end, we review the thought of Tim Ingold, a British anthropologist who has made an important contribution to this discussion in contemporary times. Finally, we highlight essayistic dynamics to think about a relationship between epistemology and the concept of agency, taking as a challenge to reflect on how environments are continually in formation due to the activities of human and non-human creatures; the evolution of form is a situated activity of these beings; and that it is in the entanglements of experience, notes, sketches and imagination that we understand the environment. Keywords: agencies; experience; entanglements; Tim Ingold. Neste ensaio falamos em ambientes e agencias e como eles se encontram, adversamente, no esteio da ideia corrente de transdisciplinaridade, multidisciplinaridade e transgressao em fazer universitario que tende a ser disciplinar, monocratico e conservador, pois, a rigor, o dito academico exige uma conceitualizacao do saber, no simulacro de se ter um 'objeto de pesquisa'. Assim, nos queremos destacar que o fazer epistemico e colonizado e seu poder e dado a quem tem poder e, portanto, ousamos caminhar sob labirintos, nas frestas, entre borroes de coisas nao estabelecidas, as vezes negadas, mas potentes em criatividade e tambem imaginativas. Partimos de uma perspectiva reflexiva propria e apropriada e tendemos a apresentar provocacoes que possam contribuir com a discussao ja bem estabelecida do pensamento sobre as relacoes humanas e nao-humanas. Para tanto, passamos em revista o pensamento de Tim Ingold, antropologo britanico que tem contribuido de forma importante para essa discussao na contemporaneidade. Finalmente, destacamos a dinamica ensaistica para pensar uma relacao entre a epistemologia e o conceito de agencia, tomando como desafio refletir sobre como os ambientes estao continuamente em formacao devido as atividades das criaturas humanas e nao-humanas; a evolucao da forma e uma atividade situada destes seres; e que e nos emaranhados da experiencia, notas, rascunhos e imaginacao que compreendemos o ambiente. Palavras-chaves: agencias; experiencia; emaranhados; Tim Ingold.
Every 8th of March or 11th of November, feminist demonstrations are observed worldwide, usually accompanied by performative and artistic expressions. These expressions are articulated mainly through ...the body: people walking through the streets, dancing, performing, writing on public surfaces, or even painting statements on their faces, chest, or other naked body parts. In this way, the body plays a crucial role in the production and perception of graffiti and political street art within social movements. This implies that the artists and their creative process, as well as those who view and interpret the artwork, are all embodied practices. Embodied methodology connects the experienced moments, senses, cognition, and mobility of both participants and researchers in urban spaces, providing multisensory research results (Fransberg, Myllyla, & Tolonen, 2021). Within this paper, I examine the construction of the context, along with the artists' and audiences' encounters and practices -such as felt sense, embodied experience, and aesthetic response-. Additionally, I explore the literature on embodied methodology. All elements are related to the context of Graffiti and Street Art Research (GSAR) in a social movement context. Keywords Social movement; Graffiti; Street Art; embodiment; methodology.
In his compelling follow-up to The Rise of the Creative Class , Richard Florida outlines how certain cities succeed in attracting members of the 'creative class' - the millions of people who work in ...information-age economic sectors and in industries driven by innovation and talent.
"Florida and others are changing the American urban agenda. This is a guidebook to the new knowledge-based economy. He mines the best available research to lay out powerful new policy options. No wonder he is in such demand." - Terry Nichols Clark, Professor of Sociology and Coordinator of the Fiscal Austerity and Urban Innovation Project, University of Chicago
Richard Florida is the Hirst Professor in George Mason University's School of Public Policy and a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings
Institution. He lives in Washington DC.
The text intends to show the importance of the Heideggerian project of deconstruction of Metaphysics, which involves the challenge of remembering the oblivion of being due to the human being's ...tendency to get used to and accommodate to a historical project in progress. Reviving the question of being has, in this sense, the potential to release the energy and creativity that is retained and crystallized in the normalization of the tradition that takes the entity and not the being as a measure. We are born, grow up and become what we are from a reality established in a certain time and place. We tend to lose contact with the origins and finite condition of this historical configuration that shelters us. Reconnect the relationship with the origins has the potential to free our behaviors and understandings from the mechanical and automatic way of everyday life. Along with the question of being, Heidegger asks for the understanding of time that guides Metaphysics. Being is understood from time as presence and not like movement, as a course that characterizes human existence. We emphasize the relationship that is established between being and the question of time, historicity, finitude, aiming to show the implications of this relationship in human existence. Understood from the difference between being and entity, the human being rescues his humanity (his Dasein), frees himself from the fixation on the historical determinations in which he is already and opens up to the always being-possible. Asking about being and about time has to do with living again in the proximity of the inaugural, of the experience that is not limited to achievements and explanations, but founds and makes them possible. In other words, asking about the being has the meaning of turning attention to the assumptions that configure human existence in its historicity.
Cinema films are characterized as a powerful tool that provides information transfer within a culture and between cultures, informs people about social roles and directs them in the light of this ...information. Biography, which is one of the types of cinema, tells the life stories that have been lived in its closest form to the truth and helps to convey the life processes of the people who are told; the events and emotions in these processes. In this context, this article examines the film "Yuli", in which such a life story is discussed. Yuli film that tells the real life story of the famous dancer Carlos Acosta, offers the audience an emotionally and artistically satisfying piece. In this review, the film "Yuli" is considered in accordance with the information of the literature in terms of the traumas suffered in some life processes, the posttraumatic growth that develops due to these traumas, and creativity that is possible to occur as a result of posttraumatic growth. Keywords: Trauma, posttraumatic growth, creativity Sinema filmleri kültür içinde ve kültürler arasinda bilgi aktarimini saglayan, insanlari toplumsal roller ile ilgili bilgilendiren ve bu bilgiler isiginda yönlendiren güçlü bir araç olarak nitelendirilmektedir. Sinemanin türlerinden biri olan biyografi, yasanmis hayat hikayelerini gerçege en yakin haliyle anlatmakta ve anlatilan kisilerin yasam süreçlerinin; bu süreçlerdeki olaylarin ve duygularin aktarilmasina yardimci olmaktadir. Bu baglamda bu yazida böylesi bir hayat hikayesinin ele alindigi "Yuli" filmi incelenmistir. Yuli filmi, izleyiciye ünlü dansçi Carlos Acosta'nin gerçek yasam öyküsünü anlatan; duygusal ve sanatsal yönden doyurucu bir yapit sunmaktadir. Bu derlemede "Yuli" filmi, kimi yasam süreçlerinde maruz kalinan travmalar, bu travmalara bagli gelisen travma sonrasi büyüme ve travma sonrasi büyüme sonucunda ortaya çikmasi mümkün olan yaraticilik kavramlari açisindan literatür bilgileri dogrultusunda ele alinmistir. Anahtar sözcükler: Travma, travma sonrasi büyüme, yaraticilik
Encuentros creativos fue un proyecto realizado entre estudiantes de la Facultad de Bellas Artes y artistas del Centro Ocupacional Municipal Carlos Castilla del Pino y Miradas Insólitas. El objetivo ...del mismo fue comprobar si se podía facilitar un lugar de creación conjunta y de proyectos compartidos entre artistas con y sin discapacidad intelectual, en el que todas las personas implicadas pudieran aportar ideas y saberes, de igual a igual. A través de la investigación acción comprobamos que esto es posible.
Recent years have witnessed an increasing awareness of the importance and relevance of creativity in social and psychological life. This has led to an awakening of research into creativity. The book ..."New Frontiers in Creativity" deals with themes that have emerged due to the expanding boundaries of research in creativity. These concern primarily new perspectives in regard to creativity, discovering of creativity in new populations and nurturing of creativity in new domains and spheres of action. The book presents four new perspectives concerning creativity. The first is a comprehensive model of creativity (by Kreitler) that does justice to the complexity of creativity in terms of the constitutive components, ranging from cognition through motivation, emotions, personality, psychopathology, behavior and the environment, focusing on the rich variety of variables in each of the components and their interactions. Another perspective focuses on creativity in the study and research of creativity (by Runco) by adopting meta-cognitive powerful tactics in the study and nurturing of creativity. A third new perspective describes the innovative methods and findings in neurophysiology of creativity, particularly in brain studies (by Shemyakina and Nagornova). The set of new perspectives is complemented by a description of the social processes characterizing the spread and maintenance of innovative ideas (by Fokas). The innovation in terms of populations is presented in the discussion of creativity in individuals diagnosed with dyslexia (by Cancer and Antonietti), in the controversial sphere of psychopathology (by Thys) and in the elderly (by Cohen-Shalev). Notably, the creativity of all three populations has been increasingly recognized in recent years. The third part of the book is devoted to creativity in various domains, including painting (by Vardi), psychotherapy (by Buzdugan, Grigore and Dinca), engineering (by Engel), architecture (by Casakin), sports (by Santos, Sampaio and Memmert) and nature (by Edlinger). The book includes 13 chapters, written by internationally known experts from different countriesâAustria, Belgium, Hungary, Italy, Israel, Portugal, Romania, Russia, and USAâresponsible for discoveries in the specific aspect of creativity with which they deal. The different chapters of the book present innovative approaches, based on empirical evidence and innovative methodologies. Thereby they contribute to the setting of the scene for new developments and new applications of creativity in the rapidly changing world that is in increasing need for creativity.
