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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      29 November 2024
      19 December 2024
      ISBN:
      9781009505017
      9781009504980
      9781009505000
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009505017
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.26kg, 78 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.13kg, 78 Pages
      • Series:
      Elements in Creativity and Imagination
      Subjects:
      Social Psychology, Cultural Psychology, Psychology, Psychology: General Interest, Cognition
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    Series:
    Elements in Creativity and Imagination
    Subjects:
    Social Psychology, Cultural Psychology, Psychology, Psychology: General Interest, Cognition
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    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.

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