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Distributed Creativity

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This chapter focuses on the social distribution of creativity and argues that creative action is defined by processes of interaction and communication between people. On the one hand, all creativity is, in some form or another, co-creation, depending on the direct or distant collaboration between different individuals at different times. On the other hand, since creativity relies on social validation it is impossible to separate creative products and acts from dialogue and debate regarding their meaning and their value. Ultimately, creativity is a social act even when performed in solitude. This is because creators work with other people in mind and, during their activity, they necessarily place themselves as ‘others’ in relation to their own developing creations.

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Glăveanu, V.P. (2014). Creativity and Sociality. In: Distributed Creativity. SpringerBriefs in Psychology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05434-6_3

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