Creativity and the Agile Mind: A Multi-Disciplinary Study of a Multi-Faceted Phenomenon

Creativity is a highly-prized quality in any modern endeavor, whether artistic, scientific or professional. Though a much-studied subject, and the topic of a great many case-studies, the field of creativity research is still very much an open one. Creativity remains a field where absolute definitions hold very little water, and where true insight can only emerge when we properly appreciate - from a nuanced, multi-disciplinary perspective - the crucial distinction between the producer's perspective and the consumer's perspective. Theories that afford us a critical appreciation of a creative work do not similarly afford a explanatory insight into the origins and development of the work. As researchers, we must approach creativity both as producers - to consider the vast search-spaces that a producer encounters, and to appreciate the need for heuristic strategies for negotiating this space - and as consumers, to appreciate the levels of shared knowledge (foreground and background) that is exploited by the producer to achieve a knowingly creative effect in the mind of the consumer. This volume thus brings together both producers and consumers in a cross-disciplinary exploration of this complex, many-faceted phenomenon.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 311029348X
• ISBN13: 9783110293487
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary