Emergent Creativity across and between Disciplines

Q1 Arts and Humanities

Knowledge Cultures Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI:10.22381/kc8120207

B. L. Hunte

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Abstract

. Creativity has been adopted as a mantra across more industries and disciplines than ever before. It crosses borders and silos and is embraced in unexpected sectors. Yet we know very little about how to foster transdisciplinary creativity across and between all the disciplines in our universities. And given predictions that more future discoveries will take place between disciplines, not simply within them, understanding the dynamics of transdisciplinary creativity becomes increasingly important. This article examines an unusual university environment that fosters transdisciplinary discovery. Specifically, it looks at the creative process involved in using a pack of ‘method cards’ written by academics from many disciplines. Emerging from this process I present three deep insights revealed through five years of observation, presented as paradoxes as they all challenge the importance we place on traditional notions of knowledge. The first insight discusses the value of the naïve perspective (important when researchers stray out of their domain of expertise in transdisciplinary research.) The second insight explores the importance of the creative leap between disciplines (the invaluable ‘trans’-cendent part of ‘trans’-disciplinary practice, where discipline becomes less relevant). And the third insight explores the importance of the person / people doing the creative leap (examining the crucial shift we must make in our universities to privilege ‘being,’ not just ‘knowing.’)

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跨学科和跨学科的涌现性创造力

．与以往任何时候相比，越来越多的行业和学科都将创造力奉为箴言。它跨越国界和藩篱，被意想不到的领域所接受。然而，我们对如何在大学各学科之间培养跨学科的创造力知之甚少。有预测称，未来将有更多的发现发生在学科之间，而不仅仅是学科内部，因此理解跨学科创造力的动态变得越来越重要。这篇文章考察了一个促进跨学科发现的不寻常的大学环境。具体来说，它着眼于使用由许多学科的学者编写的一组“方法卡”所涉及的创造性过程。在这个过程中，我提出了通过五年的观察所揭示的三个深刻的见解，它们都以悖论的形式呈现，因为它们都挑战了我们对传统知识观念的重要性。第一个洞见讨论了naïve视角的价值(当研究人员在跨学科研究中偏离了他们的专业领域时，这一点很重要)。第二个见解探讨了学科之间创造性飞跃的重要性(“跨”学科实践的宝贵“跨”部分，其中学科变得不那么相关)。第三个洞见探讨了进行创造性飞跃的人的重要性(考察了我们在大学里必须做出的关键转变，即重视“存在”，而不仅仅是“知识”)。

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Knowledge Cultures Arts and Humanities-Literature and Literary Theory

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2.70

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期刊介绍： Knowledge Cultures is a multidisciplinary journal that draws on the humanities and social sciences at the intersections of economics, philosophy, library science, international law, politics, cultural studies, literary studies, new technology studies, history, and education. The journal serves as a hothouse for research with a specific focus on how knowledge futures will help to define the shape of higher education in the twenty-first century. In particular, the journal is interested in general theoretical problems concerning information and knowledge production and exchange, including the globalization of higher education, the knowledge economy, the interface between publishing and academia, and the development of the intellectual commons with an accent on digital sustainability, commons-based production and exchange of information and culture, the development of learning and knowledge networks and emerging concepts of freedom, access and justice in the organization of knowledge production.