Connective Creativity - What Art Can Teach Us About Collaboration

Connective Creativity shows the relationship between creativity and imagination is often relational and communal. Interviews with artistic collectives and events like Burning Man, highlight embracing playfulness, cultivating action bias, and nurturing shared identity. This Element encourages applying arts lessons to foster connective creativity.

List of contents

1. The landscape: art as collective action; 2. The actors: types of artistic collaboration; 3. The case study: artbuilds collective; 4. The larger landscape: elements of connective creativity; 5. The path ahead: promoting connective creativity; Coda: collaboration beyond the human; Appendix: Methods; References.

Summary

Connective Creativity shows the relationship between creativity and imagination is often relational and communal. Interviews with artistic collectives and events like Burning Man, highlight embracing playfulness, cultivating action bias, and nurturing shared identity. This Element encourages applying arts lessons to foster connective creativity.

Foreword

This Element uses the Burning Man and an Artist Collective to show the power and pleasure of co-creating with others.

Product details

• Authors: Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick, Austin (University of San Diego) Choi-Fitzpatrick, Choi-Fitzpatrick Austin, Gordon Hoople
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2024
• EAN: 9781009504980
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0950498-0
• No. of pages: 78
• Series: Elements in Creativity and Imagination
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Theory of art, PSYCHOLOGY / General, sculpture, Social groups, Installation art, Art: Financial Aspects, Social groups, communities and identities