New Perspectives on Developmental Sequences and Cycles in Creative Work

Abstract

The purpose of this symposium is to bring together emerging empirical research that examine creativity highlighting new ways of theorizing the development of creativity over time. We present five papers that investigate (a) new ways of thinking about sequences and development within a creative project, (b) how personal history shapes engagement in creative work, and (c) how and when one creative project leads to another. The presentations cover how the team that built one of the world’s first social robot deals with ambiguity; how products made out of “dirty” materials are de-radicalized; how circus artists draw on their biographies as raw material; how creators in makerspaces switch from one project to another; and how “one-hit-wonders” affect cookbook authors’ creative careers. What’s a Social Robot to Do? Resolving Ambiguity Through an Emergent Innovation Process in Groups Presenter: Johnathan Cromwell; U. of San Francisco Dirty Innovation: How Gross, Disgusting, and Off-Limits Ideas Can Save the World Presenter: Spencer Harrison; INSEAD Presenter: Samir Nurmohamed; The Wharton School, U. of Pennsylvania How Biography Shapes Creativity: An Inductive Study of Circus Artists Presenter: Mel Yingying Hua; U. College London Project Switches in Collective Creative Spaces: An Inductive Study of Makerspaces Presenter: Ozumcan Demir Caliskan; U. College London Presenter: Colin Muneo Fisher; UCL School of Management A Recipe for Success? Award Winners and the One-hit-wonder Effect – Evidence From the UK Cookbook Presenter: Dirk Deichmann; Erasmus U. Rotterdam Presenter: Markus Baer; Washington U. in St. Louis