Social Creativity Research Papers

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- Psychology, Cognitive Science, Collective Action, Social Creativity
- by Elisa Giaccardi
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- Information Systems, Collective Memory, Case Study, Social Creativity

This paper seeks to present findings of the views and experiences of BAME alumni and university staff on the role of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in preparing creative graduates for the labour market. Using UAL as a single case study to limit the research, an interpretive qualitative framework of thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews was used to explore the issues related to creative graduates entering the labour market. This research presents a critical analysis of motivating factors, the impact of familial support and the practicalities around finding creative work, whilst considering what role HEIs play in preparing their creative graduates for the labour market. This paper offers a critical perspective on the structural inequalities found within the creative industries and the differing levels of privilege the individuals inherit which exacerbates the disparities found in accessing desired work as a creative graduate. It offers interested parties an insight into lived experiences, to help consider what more could be done to support BAME creative graduates for a smooth transition from Higher Education to creative industries.

- by Frances Ross
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- Diversity, Social Justice, Creative Industries, Neoliberalism
- by Triona M McCaffrey and +1
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- Psychology, Mental Health, Mental Health Policy, Music Therapy

Jazz has a unique character and history that finds analogy in matters of life and death. Its spontaneous and courageous aspect provides compelling models for leadership and social creativity and has a procreative capacity that imitates the eternal cycles of birth and extinction. Jazz’s transformative quality allows reinvention and reinterpretation of old and new forms and can inspire the creation of shared convictions. Its ebb and flow through mentors and griots is a model for preservation and sustainability. Yet, jazz’s emphasis on the moment recalls the brevity of life, the importance of living life to its fullest and the inevitability and finality of death. Deeply embedded in its philosophy and culture, are the historical lessons for transforming adversity into freedom and joy, and for discovering a synchronistic rhythm that makes meaning of “man’s inhumanity to man.” The Buddhist principles of non-violence, dialogue and compassion are the foundations of jazz and form the basis of human life’s highest integrity.

- by Dr. Carol L . Simpson
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- Buddhism, Psychology, Quantum Physics, Indigenous Studies
- by Klaus Backhaus and +1
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- Marketing, Uses And Gratifications, Virtual Worlds, Social Influence

This paper asks how AI can change the consensus around the notion of sentience, through a specific focus on the intertwining of culture and materiality, as well as human-nonhuman relations. The question of sentience in machines is generally regarded as a rather fetishizing notion that obscures the specific assemblages of AI. We would like to open up this notion of fetish, and provide a theoretical map for an inverted way of understanding how fetishization of AI could be mobilized in cultivating an interspecies community. [1] The ideas reflected in this paper are drawn from a research-creation project that took place in Spring of 2019, Machine Ménagerie , in which a collection of small autonomous robots serve as a medium for considering different understandings of human-machine interaction. Machine Ménagerie creates the basis for interrogating the exclusive definition of sentience as a measurable property. We argue instead for an approach that would emphasize (1) the relational nature of the notion of sentience, and (2) the rituals of care and friendship in relating to nonhuman others. In this context, sentience is not something that beings own, or that humans bestow upon things, but rather is something that is continuously achieved and in which humans and nonhumans participate.

Jazz is integrally tied to race, with African Americans central in its origin and creation. Over the years jazz has become associated with Buddhism, as evidenced in the lives of renowned living artists such as Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter, and legendary others like John Coltrane. This article aims to contribute to an ongoing dialogue about what jazz and Buddhism as models for transformative social creativity and social engagement can offer a world of increasingly complex crises exacerbated by racism, ethnic, sex and religious exclusionism, and isolationist, anti–immigrant ultra-nationalism. Drawing on transformative processes derived from a pastiche of Buddhist jazz artist narratives, the written works of SGI Buddhist leader and peacebuilder Daisaku Ikeda, and various renowned jazz artists, critics and scholars, and against a backdrop of unpredictability, an imagined Buddhist jazz ethos emerges as a tool for navigating between the old and new, traditional and uncertain, familiar and untrodden offering hope for a more peaceful and harmonious coexistence.

Social challenges are numerous, complex, urgent and multidisciplinary in nature. The old ways of looking for solutions to social problems like unemployment, climate change, an ageing population, poverty, supply of clean water, chronic disease and so on, do not offer sustainable solutions and global implementation. Societies can also no longer hold governments responsible to find solutions to all these social problems only. Social innovation is needed and seeks new answers to social problems by identifying and delivering new services that improve the quality of life of individuals and communities. The main aim of this chapter is to create awareness of social innovation as an emerging field. This chapter explain what
social creativity and innovation are and explains the creative and innovative processes. Barriers and support for social innovation are also discussed.

- by Ziska Fields
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- Entrepreneurship, Social Entrepreneurship, Social Enterprises, Social Innovation
- by Maida Friza
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- Marketing, Psychology, Cognitive Science, Creativity

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- by Andre Carmo
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- Creativity, Innovations, Social Creativity

Our current economic, social and environmental climate demands that we find creative responses to live and work in a sustainable manner. In this context, we need to reclaim creativity as a potential force for transformation, understanding it as a social phenomenon, without over-relying on social constructionist approaches that mistrust concepts of ‘agency’ and ignore human cognition. This article explores ways in which contemporary artistic labour might be understood as a cognitive process which is both agential and social. Through a case study of practice-led research, it investigates (1) the ways in which painting may be understood as a process of ecological cognition involving artist, audience and artefacts; and (2) what happens when you explicitly draw attention to the material, social and relational processes of making sense of the artwork. I conclude that the work of art may be experienced as a bringing-forth of emergent knowledge involving artist, audience and artefacts.

- by Carole Kirk
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- Embodied Cognition, Painting, Visual Arts, Emergence
- by Dominic S Irudayaraj
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- Social Identity, Utopian Studies, Social Creativity, Book of Micah

With a perceptible, repeated interplay of dichotomous themes (judgment and promise), the book of Micah remains an interpretive challenge, particularly for a coherent reading of the corpus as a whole. The most arresting of the said interplay is the near-dystopic vision of " plowed Zion " (3:12), which appears in close proximity to the utopic vision of " exalted Zion " (4:1-2). Such dichotomous depictions continue to elicit exegetical exposé on the diachronic seams in the book of Micah. While valuing such astute observations, this paper inquires into the possibility of a coherent reading of the diverse depictions of Zion. To this end, the notion of Social Creativity from the Social Identity Approach is proposed as a help/hope-ful reading strategy. Among other things, Social Creativity underscores that discursive efforts, especially by those from the margins, often embody ambivalent tendencies in which one and the same trope (here, Zion) is both distantiated as well as appropriated. Further, it is in such ambivalent interstices that the performative nature of discursive endeavors towards identity affirmation can amply be attested.

- by Dominic S Irudayaraj
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- Ideological Criticism, Social Creativity, Minor Prophets, Micah
- by Marta Llobet-Estany
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- Social Creativity, Mediated Communication, Palabras Clave: BIM
- by Nancy Roberts
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- Business, Philosophy, Social Capital, Venture Capital

In this paper we critically investigate the application of Fauconnier & Turner's Conceptual Blending Theory (CBT) in music, to expose a series of questions and aporias highlighted by current and recent theoretical work in the field. Investigating divisions between different levels of musical conceptualization and blending, we question the common distinction between intra-and extra-musical blending as well as the usually retrospective and explicative application of CBT. In response to these limitations, we argue that more emphasis could be given to bottom-up, contextual, creative and collaborative perspectives of conceptual blending in music. This discussion is illustrated by recent and in-progress practical research developed as part of the COINVENT project, and investigating structural and cross-domain blending in computational and social creativity contexts.

- by Danae Stefanou
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- Improvisation, Computational Musicology, Cognitive Musicology, Conceptual Blending

The safe operation of an underground coal mine is coordinated in a control room where data from a range of sensory equipment, and indeed, all communication between underground personnel and the surface, is monitored. It is here that response to any emergency is initiated. Specific hazard management plans and emergency procedures will be triggered by any one of a number of automatic or manual alarms. The complex array of information to be processed has the potential to overwhelm the cognitive capacity of the control room operator, particularly in a potentially catastrophic emergency scenario. A proprietary computer software-based system (Nexsys™) uses a rules engine to assist with real time monitoring and response affording control via a single interface. This paper arises from the experience of a designer charged with proposing a user interface design at a specific site, enabling efficient monitoring of prevalent operational conditions and prioritised, context-relevant access to technical documents, procedures and communications. It is a reflective case study account that draws on trans-disciplinary literature in order to theorise the nature of the creativity involved in implementing a user centered design approach. The heuristic analysis, from the perspective of a creative industry practitioner working in an industrial situation not commonly associated with creativity, proposes that Csikszentmihalyi’s (1999) “systems perspective for the study of creativity” be appended to include non-human agency before a convincing account of the sources of creativity involved may be proposed.

- by Ashley M Holmes
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- Creativity, User Centred Design, Interface Design, Material Agency
- by Chris Steyaert
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- Human Resource Management, Social Creativity, Learning Process
- by Elisa Giaccardi
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- Distributed Cognition, Open Source Software, Urban Planning, Collaborative Design

Social challenges are numerous, complex, urgent and multidisciplinary in nature. The old ways of looking for solutions to social problems like unemployment, climate change, an ageing population, poverty, supply of clean water, chronic disease and so on, do not offer sustainable solutions and global implementation. Societies can also no longer hold governments responsible to find solutions to all these social problems only. Social innovation is needed and seeks new answers to social problems by identifying and delivering new services that improve the quality of life of individuals and communities. The main aim of this chapter is to create awareness of social innovation as an emerging field. This chapter explain what social creativity and innovation are and explains the creative and innovative processes. Barriers and support for social innovation are also discussed.

- by Ziska Fields
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- Entrepreneurship, Social Entrepreneurship, Creativity, Political Science

This paper examines: (1) how individual and social creativity can be integrated by means of proper collaboration models and tools supporting distributed cognition; (2) how the creation of shareable externalizations (“boundary objects”)... more

- by Gerhard Fischer
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- Computer Science, Cognition, Distributed Cognition, Open Source Software
- by Hala Annabi
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- Social Tagging, Social Creativity, Design knowledge, Exploratory Analysis

abstract how is social creativity linked to habitual dispositions? This paper critiques Bourdieu's answer to this question, which is related to his theory of habitus, against the background of its phenomenological evidences. his concept of habitual dispositions seems to be linked both to an internalisation of the performativity of habits as a form of Kantian schematism (in husserlian terms: 'noetization'), and to a static concept of the social environment, which is never analysed in its own dynamic structural relation to the life of the bearer of habits. Through the genetic-phenomenological distinction between habits as noetic dispositions and types as noematic schemes, the paper seeks to show that the social environment cannot be presupposed as a given field of social objectivities and norms that are stabilized by internalized habitual dispositions, but should instead be seen as an enactively framed habitat. When we further distinguish between passive and active habitualities, their intertwining comes to the fore, showing how in taking a position in relation to its own cultural environment the subject finds in the hiatus between disposition and the disposed leeway for a relative framework of spontaneity and personal cultivation, a space allowing for individual and, ultimately, social creativity that is absent from Bourdieu's account. *Translated by Jacob martin rump (emory university)

- by Valérie Kokoszka
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- Phenomenology, Habitus, Social Creativity

Motivation of stigmatized group members to perform on status-relevant ‘outgroup’ dimensions can be impaired after ingroup failure. Three experiments examined whether social creativity by valuing ingroup dimensions (dimensions on which an ingroup outperforms an outgroup) can increase motivation and performance on outgroup dimensions. It was hypothesized that under high social identity threat, motivation on the outgroup dimension would benefit from valuing an ingroup dimension. Experiments 1 and 2 show that when social identity threat is increased, low status group members who personally value ingroup dimensions show higher motivation to perform on the outgroup dimension. Experiment 3 shows that the induction of high contextual value of both ingroup and outgroup dimensions improves low status group members' well-being and motivated performance on the outgroup dimension. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

- by Naomi Ellemers and +1
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- Sociology, Psychology, Cognitive Science, Creativity

Traditionally, universities focus primarily on instructionist teaching. Such an understanding has been criticized from theoretical and practical points of view. We believe that sociocultural theories of learning and the concepts of social capital and social creativity hold considerable promise as a theoretical base for the repositioning of universities in the knowledge society. To illustrate our assumption, we provide case studies from the University of Colorado and the University of Siegen. These cases indicate how approaches to community-based learning can be integrated into a curriculum of applied computer science. We also discuss the role these didactical concepts can play within a practice-oriented strategy of regional innovation.

- by Craig McGarty and +1
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- Information Systems, Social Psychology, The Internet, Internet psychology

This chapter investigates the relationship between physical space and processes of creative thinking and action. We build on organizational and sociological literature about social space
and aesthetics, then illustrate how they influenced each other in five action experiments. Small mixed groups explored how they would use a studio to facilitate social innovation and to
strengthen the link between the college and the surrounding communities. Our analysis of the videotapes identified seven configurations of social space which changed over time as the
participants engaged in the task. We suggest that the undifferentiated and unencrusted nature of the space was both a source of uncertainty and potential for the participants. Some groups generated more innovative processes and products than others. Finally, the study offers insights into the importance of embodied action and verbal discourse in innovative processes.

- by Ariane Berthoin Antal
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- Design for Social Innovation, Social Creativity
- by Michael Schmitt
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- Psychology, Cognitive Science, Social Identity, Collective Action

This paper presents the outline of experiments with a behaviour-based computational model of creativity in design called Creative Design Situations. This model aims to allow the study of social creativity through the computational implementation of a community of creative design agents. 1. Studies of Creativity Whilst the study of creativity in general has been a topic of interest in various disciplines, our current understanding of this distinctive human ability to create and innovate is still fragmentary (Runco and Albert, 1990). In design research, creativity has been the focus of a number of research efforts (Gero and Maher, 1989; 1993). However, there is still an inadequate comprehension of sufficient aspects of design creativity. This paper suggests that new approaches are needed to gain further insight into design creativity, particularly as a social phenomenon. It is suggested that before trying to improve creativity in design, it is essential to know more about it, how is i...

- by Ricardo Sosa
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- Computer Model, Social Creativity

14 Fostering Social Creativity by Increasing Social Capital Gerhard Fischer, Eric Scharff, and Yunwen Ye Complex design problems require more knowledge than any single person can possess, and the knowledge relevant to a problem is often... more

- by Eric Scharff
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- Social Capital, Collaborative Design, Social Groups, Open Source
- by Reijo Kupiainen and +1
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- Information Technology, Creativity, Higher Education, Computer Mediated Communication
- by Shawn Kilburn
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- Social Tagging, Social Creativity, Design knowledge, Exploratory Analysis

Palabras clave: conflicto, des(orden), mediación comunitaria y creatividad social Resumen Cuando en occidente pensamos en el conflicto lo asociamos al desorden, al caos y al desequilibrio. Por lo que el abordaje al que optamos para dar respuesta al conflicto es establecer el orden y el equilibrio como respuesta adecuada para mantener las normas establecidas en una comunidad humana. A nuestro

- by Marta Llobet-Estany
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- Social Creativity, Mediated Communication, Palabras Clave: BIM

Creativity studies seem to be a stronghold for individual-based psychological theories. The reasons for this are numerous and complex and, among them, we can identify certain limited or counter-productive ways of conceptualising the social. In this reply to comments I address both the status of the social in creativity studies and the dichotomies that follow from adopting an external view of society and culture. Among them, the separation between creative potential and achievement is particularly problematic, as it constructs a reified, static, and individual notion of potential, reflected in the measurement of divergent thinking. I propose, towards the end, a perspectival model of creativity that radically socialises divergent thinking by placing the social at the core rather than the periphery of creative production. Finally, I suggest that including time into our theory and research holds the key to overcoming many of the false dichotomies that underline creativity studies, at least in psychology. A thoroughly social perspective on creativity might seem like a daring or foolish endeavour but it is, in my view, also the most promising.

The article considers the concept of the social maturity of adolescents in the context of the development of creative abilities. The relationships of social maturity with socialization, social creativity and innovative thinking of adolescents are researched. It is found that girls are more likely to move from the previous to the next level of social maturity. It is found that with age, the ability to social creativity develops. There is a connection between the level of social creativity and the levels of social autonomy, social morality and social activity of adolescents.

- by Lifescience Global Canada
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- Creativity, Socialization, Adolescence, Social Creativity
- by Belle Derks
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- Social Identity, Collective Action, Intergroup Relations, Ethnic minorities
- by Ziska Fields
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- Entrepreneurship, Social Entrepreneurship, Social Enterprises, Social Innovation

In this paper, we bring to the fore social creativity in the design of digital resources with creative mathematical thinking (CMT) affordances, called 'c-books’ (‘c’ for creative). We look for correlations between social creativity occurred during the design process and the CMT affordances of the c-books produced. Our analysis shows that CMT affordances are linked with SC.

- by Mohamed El-Demerdash
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- Creativity, Creative thinking, Digital Learning Resources, Social Creativity

Quest for a good society has a long pedigree in sociological thought and critical reflections. It vibrates with many themes of liberation, morality and justice in classical sociology as pioneered by thinkers such as Marx and Durkheim and themes of decent society and creative society in recent theoretical discourses. The present essay discusses this quest for a good society in

- by H. Annabi
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- Social Tagging, Social Creativity, Design knowledge, Exploratory Analysis
- by Stefan Carmien
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- Public Transport, Distributed Cognition, Pervasive Computing, Social Creativity
- by Stefan Carmien
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- Public Transport, Distributed Cognition, Pervasive Computing, Social Creativity

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