Connective creativity: what art can teach us about collaboration

The story we often tell about artists is fiction. We tend to imagine the starving artists toiling alone in their studio when, in fact, creativity and imagination are often relational and communal. Through interviews with artistic collectives and first-hand experience building large scale installatio...

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Main Authors: Choi-Fitzpatrick, Austin (Author), Hoople, Gordon D. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2024
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Online Access:DE-12
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Summary:The story we often tell about artists is fiction. We tend to imagine the starving artists toiling alone in their studio when, in fact, creativity and imagination are often relational and communal. Through interviews with artistic collectives and first-hand experience building large scale installations in public spaces and at art events like Burning Man, Choi-Fitzpatrick and Hoople take the reader behind the scenes of a rather different art world. Connective Creativity leverages these experiences to reveal what artists can teach us about collaboration and teamwork and focuses in particular on the importance of embracing playfulness, cultivating a bias for action, and nurturing a shared identity. This Element concludes with an invitation to apply lessons from the arts to promote connective creativity across all our endeavors, especially to the puzzle of how we can foster more connective creativity with other minds, including other artificial actors
Item Description:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Nov 2024)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (68 Seiten)
ISBN:9781009505017
DOI:10.1017/9781009505017