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Systemic Creative Cognition: Bruno LaTour for Creativity Researchers

Systemic Creative Cognition: Bruno LaTour for Creativity Researchers

Hardcover

General Psychology

ISBN10: 1032292342
ISBN13: 9781032292342
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 30 2023
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This unique book explores how the conceptual framework of science and technology studies can be applied to creativity and problem-solving research, drawing from and building on the work of Bruno Latour.

Using an interdisciplinary approach, the book outlines new research practices to capture the origin of ideas. Latour enjoins researchers to adopt a resolutely ethnographic methodology to trace the process by which a creative product, be it a technological innovation or a work of art, is constructed, or instaured. Creativity is explained in terms of the microprocesses that guide and constrain the development of a new idea. These microprocesses operate on and are triggered by material objects, be they maquettes, models, drafts or data representations. The resulting perspective is systemic, casting creativity as emerging from the interaction among heterogenous elements and actants. The book provides critical reflections on problem-solving research and stresses the importance of William James's radical empiricism and the primary role of experience. The book redefines the concept of insight as an outcome rather than the cause of a new idea.

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