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Connective Creativity

What Art Can Teach Us about Collaboration

Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick author Gordon Hoople author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:19th Dec '24

£49.99

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

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.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.

ISBN: 9781009504980

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 249g

78 pages