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ERIC Number: EJ1086845
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2015-Sep
Pages: 13
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-0175
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The Creative Pathways of Everyday Life
Tanggaard, Lene
Journal of Creative Behavior, v49 n3 p181-193 Sep 2015
This paper presents two studies of how the conduct of life in itself can be a creative act. Very often, creativity research is concerned with the study of what enables people to express themselves creatively or aesthetically or to produce creative ideas and products. Creativity as it arises in the mundane processes of everyday life is, however, seldom highlighted by researchers working explicitly on creativity. The premise of the present paper is that a focus on everyday life can help us understand creative processes in broader terms. I "creative pathways" may serve as a useful term for researchers interested in the simultaneous development of persons and social practices. Pathways are created in ordinary life; their formation may involve creativity and the improvisational co-creation of opportunities for action. Studying pathways may therefore direct creativity researchers toward the potentials of creativity in daily life and shed light of the processes of creativity. Creative pathways are present in existing ways of moving and doing things; they are also created in the here-and-now by persons acting in correspondence with the affordances in social practices. A focus on creative pathways is consistent with recent research calling for more process orientation and an explicit focus on materiality and social practices.
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Language: English
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