Professor Lene Tanggaard Aalborg University Denmark Introduction S tudying the creativity involved in accomplishing mundane life in itself is seldom highlighted by researchers focusing explicitly on creativity ID: 277064
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Creative Pathways of Everyday Life
Professor,
Lene Tanggaard
Aalborg University, DenmarkSlide2
Introduction
S
tudying
the creativity involved in accomplishing mundane life in itself is seldom highlighted by researchers focusing explicitly on creativitySlide3
Train creativitySlide4
4
Pathways as a termSlide5
Aim: To sheed light on the process dimensions of
creativity
The
idea of studying pathways is based on the notion that creativity is
the particular dimension of potentiality
in everyday life which is ‘not yet there’ and which cannot always be imagined beforehand. Slide6
PathwaysMy
own
pathways
are
created
along
Institutional
pathways andSocietal pathwaysAs part of distributed social practicesSlide7
Drawing on inspiration from two concepts
:
Trajectories
of participation (Lave & Wenger, 1991) and
Affordances
Gibson (1979)Slide8
1) It urges us to look at the
idea
of the
creative
person and
2)it adresses
creativity
as
being
about
much more than divergent thinking or novel productsBut why would
we
need
such
a
concept
?Slide9
1) What is a creative person – do
we
restrict
ourselves
by the
emphasis
on the
extra-ordinary
?
We now know that creative persons have a distinctive profile of personality traits. For instance, creativity is highly correlated with openness to experience (as defined in the 5-factor model of personality; Carson, Peterson, & Higgins,2005; Harris, 2004; McCrae, 1987), a personality dimension that also correlates with reduced latent inhibition (Peterson & Carson, 2000; Peterson, Smith, & Carson, 2002) (Simonton, 2013, p. 218). Slide10
2) The problems related to a one-sided focus
on divergent
thinking
Choosing
pathways as a central concept, the intention is to focus explicitly on creativity, not as isolated, divergent thinking, but as concrete movements and ways of making in everyday life
.
As such, I suggest that creativity research also focuses its attention on ordinary life to find out more about the phenomena of creativity. Slide11
Reflecting pathways – where to go?
To conclude
, I
suggest that creativity research to a higher extent than hitherto seen begins to investigate the ordinary rather than only the exceptional or the explicit creation of what is new.
Furthermore, it is suggested that creative pathways is a term that may guide researchers interested in the simultaneous development of persons and social practices. Slide12
ConclusionPathways
are created in ordinary life and the formation of these may indeed involve creativity and the improvisational co-creation of opportunities for action.
As
such, studying pathways may direct creativity researchers towards the potentials of creativity in everyday life and my shed new light of the processes of creativity itself. Slide13
For more information: Lenet@hum.aau.dk or my web-page: http://personprofil.aau.dk/101324