The Creativity of Culture and the Culture of Creativity Research: The Promise of Integrative Transdisciplinarity (original) (raw)

2018, V.P. Gl ă veanu (ed.), T e Palgrave Handbook of Creativity and Culture Research , Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture

In an increasingly complex, networked, and rapidly changing world, creativity has taken a central role. There is enormous interest in creativity in education, business, technology research, and emerging fields such as social innovation and design. Coupled with a proliferation of popular as well as academic discourses of creativity, this situation presents researchers with complex, multidimensional challenges that cannot be addressed exclusively from the perspective of one discipline. This new global context requires a transdisciplinary exploration of creativity, particularly since the articulation, expression, and practice of creativity appear to be in flux in society as well as in academia. The networked society, generational differences, and the focus on business innovation have turned attention to collaborative, distributed forms of creativity that have only recently begun to be studied systematically.