Creative Efforts Research Articles

Optimalisasi Ibu Rumah Tangga dalam Peningkatan Ekonomi Keluarga melalui Pelatihan Teknik Shibori

Many housewives play a role in improving the family's economy by building a business. However, increasing business competition demands more creativity. Therefore, exploring creative business ideas needs to be done to provide business insight to housewives. This community service aims to optimize the role of housewives in improving family economic welfare through creative efforts. The target of this community service is a group of housewives who are active in family welfare improvement programs, namely the women of the Family Welfare Program (PKK) in hamlet (RW 1) Bangunharjo Village, Semarang. The service program is carried out in several stages. The program begins with field observations and business analysis according to partner need to provide creative business training. The result of this activity is to provide fabric coloring skills with the Shibori Technique to service participants. This activity produces ready-to-use products in the form of hijabs with unique motives that have high selling values. Thus, this provides business opportunities for housewives, so that they can optimize their role in improving the economic welfare of the family.

The Schumpeterian creative response: export and innovation: evidence for OECD countries 1995–2015

The Schumpeterian creative response provides an effective framework to understand the determinants of the twin and self-supporting loop relationship between export and innovation in the global economy. Exports spur the creative response and innovation efforts which lead to the introduction and adoption of technological innovations that increase labor productivity and, in turn, exports. There is significant and robust empirical evidence for eight manufacturing industries in 13 OECD countries during the period 1995–2015 confirming the central role of the creative response in the Schumpeterian loop between innovation and export.

I, Human: How Artificial Agents Make Us Try Harder (Or Not) In Creative Tasks

Although creativity is almost universally considered a uniquely human faculty that will help humans keep their jobs and compete against artificial agents (robots, artificial intelligence), little research has examined how exposure to artificial agents impacts the human creative process. Drawing on social comparison and expectancy violation theories, we hypothesized that individuals would decrease their creative effort when they are exposed to artificial agents, but not humans, and consider artificial agents non-threatening. In multiple experimental studies and a survey (total n=1497) across collaborative, competitive, and neutral contexts, we found support for our hypothesis and showed that this effect is contingent on perceptions of artificial agents’ creative capacities. When artificial agents are, in defiance of the general belief, capable of delivering a creative output, individuals exert greater effort when creativity as a uniquely human characteristic is more salient to the self and the perceived threat from an artificial agent increases.

Development of Boat Rental Service Business of Panglima Laot Organization Towards Independent BUMDes in Banda Aceh City

The development of governance for boat rental services by the Panglima Laot organization in Banda Aceh City is needed as a manifestation of the achievement of the aspirations of the youth of Meuraxa District to have a BUMDes in an independent village administration administrative bureaucracy. For the change from this creative effort to BUMDes, it is necessary to reform the governance of business units that are currently being carried out in the establishment document. Currently, a boat rental business is running for fishing activities, both by local residents and by other residents who rent boat equipment in Meuraxa District. Besides, it is also used by tenants to do sea fishing as a hobby. This study aims to develop a boat rental service management system for the Panglima Laot organization through administrative reform of business unit management towards an independent BUMDes. This research is qualitative. In the development of this business, after reviewing the potential of both human and natural resources, it is found that this business service has the potential to increase income and prevent unemployment of the local community which results in reducing poverty rates in the assumption that all human and natural resources can work together. realize independent BUMDes. So that this creative business deserves to be developed to become a growing business for the future under the guidance of a village legal entity in the form of an Independent BUMDes.

Strategi Pemulihan Ekonomi Nasional di Jawa Timur melalui JATIM BANGKIT

The National Economic Recovery Strategy in East Java is really a plan or map to help leaders or direct organization in East Java in economic recovery efforts, handling the pandemic of Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) or responding to threats that threaten the economy or financial system as well as economic rescue in East Java. This article was written using a qualitative descriptive method with interview and documentation techniques. The information of this research is officials who are in the Regional Development Planning Agency of East Java Province who are members of the National Economic Recovery Program in East Java through East Java Bangkit, so that the authors can present data systematically, factually and accurately regarding facts in the field. National Economic Recovery Strategies in East Java include recovery of trade and industrial activities, overcoming trade barriers both import duties and import export regulations, budget allocated for health and education in order to ease the burden on society, increase disposable income through creative efforts, encourage household consumption, which is a contributor to aggregate expenditure, continues the subsidy program for small industries and cooperatives as well as optimism for East Java's economic growth.

Revitalizing agricultural sciences with design sciences

In this perspective article, I explain why agricultural sciences are facing what I consider to be design issues, and why I strongly believe that agricultural sciences would benefit from more dialogue on these issues with design sciences. Using two examples concerning the design of Decision Support Systems (DSS) and of agricultural systems, I discuss the methodological and conceptual contribution that design sciences can make to agricultural sciences. I then elaborate on how design sciences are most needed to help us revitalise agricultural sciences so that they can more effectively support farmers and agricultural stakeholders on their road to sustainability – a process which requires a radical, creative and innovative design effort.

The Noisy Silence of Gukurahundi: Truth, Recognition and Belonging

A period of terrible state repression known as ‘Gukurahundi’ indelibly marked the foundational years of the Zimbabwean nation. The perpetrators of that period still hold power. It has never been subject to an official truth-telling process, nor have the responsible actors been held accountable. Instead, irreconcilable narratives about this past have interacted and, for those subjected to violence, proliferated, producing what I call a ‘noisy silence’ at the edges of the nation. This noise rumbles on because of a perpetual failure of public recognition of the violent past, but it does so in highly varied ways and to distinct purposes. I seek to trace the history of this noisy silence from its start in the irreconcilable narratives of the 1980s, themselves powerfully rooted in earlier liberation struggle ideas and relationships, through subsequent decades. Noisy silence sat in between an official, justificatory account of Gukurahundi on the one hand and the fearful, silenced memories of individuals on the other. It occupied a productive middle ground where collective, creative efforts delineated and demanded new political possibilities and terms of belonging through truth-telling, re-imagined and mourned nations and cross-generational attempts to heal and hold perpetrators to account.

Feminist Softball as Everyday Utopia

Abstract In 1987, Susan Birrell and Diana Richter wrote “Is a Diamond Forever?” a study of feminist softball teams and their players’ efforts to use sport as a vehicle of political transformation, one of several pieces in which Birrell takes up sport as a feminist strategy. In this essay, I discuss the article as a historical artifact, contextualizing it in relation to intersectional critiques of second-wave feminism that readers might bring to it today. I argue that Birrell and Richter's emphasis on feminist attempts to transform sport remain relevant in a context where some progressive scholarship tends to prioritize critique over concrete change. I suggest that the feminist softball discussed by Birrell and Richter serves as an example of prefigurative or utopian politics or, in other words, activism through which people try to put their visions of socially just futures into practice. “Is a Diamond Forever?” reminds us of the feminist history of creative efforts to transform conventional models of sport and to engage the “potentialities” of sport in the project of making a better world.

MELIRIK IKAN NILA DALAM SISI EKONOMI KREATIF PADA KOMUNITAS PEMUDA DESA GELAM JAYA KABUPATEN TANGERANG

This research is motivated by the phenomenon of the Covid-19 Pandemic which has almost hit all nations in the world and has caused a domino effect on the joints of human life itself. Various fields experience tidal effects, including one of them is the economic sector. To deal with uncertain situations and ups and downs like today that can make a country enter the trough of an economic crisis, it is necessary to have support from the central government to the regions to jointly generate the economy. Therefore, this study aims to analyze the factors that influence the interest of the youth community of Gelam Jaya Village to contribute to developing tilapia fish farming which aims to increase the original income of the environment so as to be able to make choices for the community to continue to get income distribution. The problem in this research is the low interest of the youth community to take part in creative economic efforts for the surrounding environment. In this study, a research model was proposed to analyze the interest of young people in actively contributing to tilapia cultivation, where from the location side, Gelam Jaya Village made it possible to develop collaboration with related agencies in terms of generating the creative economy. This study examines the factors that can be obtained when interviewing the village regarding the youth's interest in contributing to the creative economy. This study uses answers from 169 respondents who were sampled. The data analysis tool used is factor analysis in the SPSS v.18 program. The results of data analysis show that the Situational Involvement (X1) factor of 0.766 is one of the most dominating factors for respondents in actively contributing to developing tilapia cultivation in Gelam Jaya Village, and has a value above 0.50.

THE SIMULACRUM NARRATIVE OF HISTORY INTERPRETATION IN POST-TOTALITARIAN CULTURE

The purpose of the article is to highlight the features of contemporary national culture as a special artistic meaning of the Gesamtkunstwerk, which is formed by a reflection of a predominantly historical pattern. The research methodology consists of a set of scientific methods of general and special nature. Methods of analysis and synthesis, as well as historical, cultural and systemic approaches, were used to reveal the essence of virtual reality of super narratives in the information space, which are the impetus for the formation of ethical, aesthetic and artistic consensus. The relevance of the research is determined by the need to study the postmodern paradigm, which gives the rise to the new discourses that replace the narratives of the communist era in the interpretation of the history of the posttotalitarian space. The scientific novelty of the study is that it shows post-Soviet culture as an inertial phase of post-totalitarianism, which has an image simulative tottalogy of reality. Conclusions. The article demonstrated that the artistic meaning of the Gesamtkunstwerk of the post-Soviet space is a desirable reality, but it has stopped at the level of the fairy-tale narrative, which is formed by a reflection of a predominantly historical pattern. The time and space of culture in the dimension of the simulacrum world appear as another kind of aesthetics virtus. It has been noted that the cultural reality of post-totalitarianism is at a stage when it is necessary to realise that the invented reality of the fairy-tale type is not art. So, the hybridity of creative efforts, post-coloniality, hypercriticism as a way of being, vital energy represent a set of motives that adds little to the understanding of the situation of postmodern creativity in Ukraine. Conversely, national slogans indicate the need for a national identity, because time is waiting for the manifestation of creative initiatives of artistic synthesis.

The Application of CHSE in Cook Interpreter Activities at Sibayak International Hotel Berastagi

The Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy is currently implementing CHSE-based health protocols (Cleanliness, Health, Safety and Environment Sustainability) on tourism and creative economy efforts, to revive the sector from the downturn caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. The key to successful tourism in order to rebound immediately is the implementation of CHSE-based health protocols well and disciplined in each destination and tourism sector actors. Berastagi city is one of the tourist cities that is a mainstay of tourism in north Sumatra. This is certainly very related to the implementation of the CHSE program from the government, in order to make tourism activities in Berastagi city bounce back. The purpose of this research is to find out how to understand and apply the CHSE program to employees working in the kitchen department at Sibayak International hotel so as to have a positive impact from the application and can increase the trust of guests to stay. This research is descriptive research with data analysis method is qualitative descriptive. The results of the study can be concluded that cooks get a good understanding of the CHSE program that is being implemented by the government as an effort to prevent the transmission of the covid.19 virus, especially in the kitchen area as the place most at risk of becoming a medium of transmission of bacteria and viruses from humans to processed foods. The implementation of CHSE program in Sibayak Berastagi hotel kitchen goes well so it is expected that it will also have a good influence on the level of trust of guests not to worry about visiting and staying at Sibayak Berastagi hotel.

Материнство как фактор осмысления жизни в реалиях общества потребления

Modern society is focused on a prestigious-status consumption, material values are cultivated in it to the detriment of spiritual ones, the meaning of life becomes unclear, a person falls into an “existential vacuum”. Consumer tendencies can be contrasted with love in its various manifestations, including one of the strongest – motherly love. But in modern realities, motherhood is faced with the devaluation, belittling of its role. The image of a woman-mother giving a new life is no longer the ideal of a woman, it is replaced by an attractive image of an eternally young “business lady”, untouched by the age and the hardships of motherhood. In the consumer society, a detached, non-creative and devoid of creative efforts approach to child rearing prevails. It is no longer endowed with high meaning, as it was from time immemorial. In spite of this fact, in order to acquire a vital meaning, it is necessary to strive to create a traditional family, relations which should become a prototype of relations in society for children, as well as to show a creative and constructive attitude to social reality, in particular, to direct their activity to the harmonious development of the child, while realizing their own potential. This approach to motherhood gives a woman’s life the meaning that goes beyond its own limits, satisfying the need for transcendence.

Diaspora Tamils and Their Creative Efforts in Historical Perspective

Humans usually migrate from their native at different times and under different natural and artificial conditions. Meanwhile, they intend on to record the tragedies, sufferings and crises that they underwent in the time of their diaspora. Such records create some new literary genre in a particular language. They are included foreign literature, refuge literature, diaspora literature etc. In that respect, this respect, this research examines the tamils – eelam tamils in diaspora and their creative efforts. On the other hand, this research brings out the scenario of not only the eelam tamils but also about the diasporas humans in various places of the world.

Zero Student Lite: Model Inovasi dan Kreativitas Kepala Sekolah Di SMA Negeri 3 Jember

Abstract One of the efforts to improve Character Education is discipline. The discipline of entering the classroom, the discipline of carrying out the school discipline, and the discipline of improving learning achievement. One of the educational institutions in Jember district with low student discipline level is SMAN 3 Jember. The lack of discipline in school in SMAN 3 Jember school has been running for many years. The community knows the school with its low-level high discipline, lack of discipline in dealing with troubled students, and often empty hours. The focus of this article is on the innovation and creativity efforts of the principal of SMAN 3 Jember in suppressing the low rate of discipline of students. The method used is qualitative with the type of research library. The findings of this article are that SMAN 3 Jember school successfully innovates and creativity in improving the quality of educational institutions in student discipline. The success of SMAN 3 Jember reduces the low level of discipline of students entering the school through the Zero Student Lite Program. Zero Student Lite program is a program resulting from the innovation and creativity of the Principal to minimize the level of lack of discipline of students who have been rooted for years. Mechanism of implementation of Zero Student Lite Program: first, coordinating and cooperating with stake holders. Second, give punishment or coaching to students late to school by conducting observation (outdoor learning). Third, students are assigned to record and describe the findings of observations. Fourth, collect the results of observation records the next day as evidence of attendance filling.

The algorithmic imaginary of cultural producers. Towards platform-optimized music?

The prominent role played by algorithmic platforms in people’s everyday lives has in recent years triggered a growing interest towards algorithmic imaginaries, intended as worlds of experience users make of the algorithmic media, thereby building up their own awareness of the platform and in turn moulding the algorithm itself through their performativity. Today, part of the construction of individual cultures takes place on streaming platforms, media environments where subjects access cultural materials and cultural exchanges occur. Platforms, such as Netflix or Spotify, have become privileged sites for studying the platformization of cultural production and the construction of algorithmic imaginaries by users and developers. Despite this, to date little has been discussed about cultural creators’ algorithmic imaginaries. This paper intends to discuss how to include algorithmic imaginaries in research regarding platforms and cultural production, by focusing on the case of music platforms. Specifically, the main goal of this contribution is to address the following issues in the light of existing literature: i) The role of algorithms as cultural gatekeepers and how they may affect the creative disposition of music producers, as well as their strategies to relate with the broader environment of cultural production and consumption. ii) The optimization of culture, i.e., how cultural producers may attempt to create platform-optimized products adapting their creative efforts to platforms’ affordances, thus fostering processes of product homogenization. Finally, suggestions will be made for future investigations regarding how all the actors in the music industry relate to streaming platforms

Adoption of Koha Integrated Library System (ILS) for the Automation of Umaru Musa Yar’adua University Library, Katsina, Nigeria: Problems and Prospects

This study attempted to explore the gradual advancement of modern technology in libraries, it distinguished old and new innovations, creative efforts of librarians and information technologists through the various generations of automation revolution. The study also identify various components of the Integrated Library System (ILS) or Library Management System (LMS) which are used or being used in Umaru Musa Yar’adua University (UMYU) library as well as the services automated by the system. The study also identifies the exact reasons for adopting KOHA in UMYU library. It also explains the impact, challenges associated with the University library automation system. The study adopted quantitative approach as research paradigm; with survey as research methods. Questionnaires were the instrument used for data collection. The population of 42 library staff was used for the study. The data for the study were analyzed using tables and frequencies. From the findings of the study the two main services fully automated were the Circulation and Cataloguing, the library adopted the use of the KOHA ILS as it was a free open source and secondly for greater opportunities and innovation. However, retrospective conversion and Low Level of Literacy were the major challenges and a setback for the KOHA ILS implementation in the library understudy. The study recommended the need for the increase investment in the automation project to speed up the implementation of automation systems.

An Intellectual and a Peasant in Gleb Uspensky’s Cycle “Peasant and Peasant Labor”: Dynamics of Interaction in Context of Idea of “Merging with People”

The cycle of essays by G. I. Uspensky “The Peasant and the Peasant Labor” in the aspect of the actual for Russian literature of the second half of the XIX — early XX centuries problems of relations between the people and the intellectuals are analyzed in the article. The crisis in the study of the “peasant” cycles of Uspensky, caused by the predominance of ideological interpretation, is stated. It is argued that Uspensky finds the key to understanding the peasantry not in the socio-economic conditions of his life, but in the field of aesthetics. The point of convergence, in which the peasant and the intellectual appear as equal subjects of communication, is, according to Uspensky, the aesthetic attitude to work. An implicit correspondence is established between peasant labor and the creative effort of the artist. Therefore, the intellectual turns out to be a necessary mediator in the process of the peasantry acquiring its own “voice”. It is proved that the aesthetic utopia in the cycle “Peasant and Peasant Labor” was crushed by the ethical maximalism of the writer. The peasant economy is represented by the Uspensky reasonably organized order, the anthroposphere, in which the working peasant was likened to the monarch and the Creator. In turn, the intellectual was declared an impostor, marked by the “antichrist” seal. In Uspensky’s creative consciousness, the aesthetic and ethical found themselves in a tragic and hopeless contradiction, and the prospect of “merging with the people” was illusory.

STRATEGI PENGEMBANGAN EKONOMI KREATIF DI KOTA MALANG

The purpose of this research is to find out the development strategies of 4 creative economic in Malang City. The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative analysis using SWOT analysis to carry out strategies with the aim of improving the development of the creative economy by looking at strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.Based on the results of the study, 4 creative economic sub-sectors in Malang City have different variations of strategies for each sector, creative economic sub-sectors also have various problems in carrying out their creative efforts. Problems such as human resources in the music and culinary sector, besides financial problems in the craft, culinary, fashion and music sectors.Other problems such as technological problems as a support for the craft and culinary sub-sector. Business people in 4 creative economic sub-sectors are forced to make an innovation or creative idea to create creative output.

동물해원 관점에서의 동물복지

The debate on the treatment of animals has accelerated as a social issue in the West since the 1970s. In 1975, Peter Singers argued in his book, Animal Liberation, that speciesism should be banned. This led to an explosion in research on animal welfare in the philosophical and social sciences. Following Singer, Tom Regan suggested considering the animal rights as being on the same level as human rights. Their arguments were that animals should be imbued with some intrinsic weight sufficient enough to remind humans of their social responsibility to animals at least to a certain degree. In this regard, social responsibility for animal welfare as well as animal rights has formed an axis that organizes human morality in modern society. Such arguments regarding animal welfare can be perceived as an active and creative effort which accords with the free will of human beings who in Daesoon Thought are understood as facing the era of human nobility. This argumentation also aligns with the doctrine of grievance-resolution for mutual beneficence as a practical creed due to the way in which modern bioethics implies that animal welfare could become a practical communal morality integrated into legal systems prior to adoption as a system of individual morality. From within this context, this study discusses the nature and limits of modern animal welfare and animal rights from the perspective of the grievance-resolution which Kang Jeungsan promised to animals.

Creativity and psychopathology – an interdisciplinary view

IntroductionSince ancient philosophy extraordinary creativity is associated with mental disorders, emotional and cognitive destabilization, and melancholia. We here summarize the results of empirical and narrative studies and analyze most prominent cases of highly creative persons who suffered from depression, bipolar and schizotypic disorders, drug- and alcohol addiction. Hereby, we focus on the interaction of creative processes with “bipolar” personality traits. Finally, we offer an interdisciplinary interpretation of the creative dialectics between order and chaos.ObjectivesAn interdisciplinary concept of the relationship between creativity and psychopathology is shown to be essential for reasonable psychopharmacological and psychotherapeutic treatment of creative individuals.MethodsOn the basis of empirical-statistical and biographical studies we offer a comprehensive concept of the interaction between creativity and psychopathology.ResultsThe exemplary cases of J. W. v. Goethe and Robert Schumann show a complex interaction of mood swings with creative achievements. Dysthymic and mild depressive phases were associated with creative efforts whereas severe depressive episodes inhibited their creativity. Mild mood swings and “bipolar personality traits” interacted constructively with their creative striving. With respect to the relationship of alcohol- and drug-abuse, we show on behalf of a detailed analysis of the life and work of prominent Pop-Icons that addiction mostly leads to psycho-social disintegration and destruction of creativity.ConclusionsAn interplay between cognitive coherence and incoherence, emotional stability and instability, order and chaos accompanies many creative processes. The interdisciplinary approach shows that psychopathology can motivate creative efforts. However, if expressed severely, mental disorders inhibit or even destroy creativity.DisclosureNo significant relationships.