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Why do We Need to Distribute Creativity?

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The last chapter opens with a summary of key arguments regarding distribution and creativity and emphasises the idea that creative acts are simultaneously socially, materially and temporally distributed. Several theoretical and practical consequences of adopting a view of creativity as a distributed process are presented. These concern the definition of creativity, current dichotomies between celebrated and mundane creations, the role of individuals in creative work, new methodological perspectives, the issue of creative agency and responsibility towards the creativity of self and others. In the end it is argued that a cultural psychological framework of distributed creativity is much better positioned to capture the intricacies of creating as members of human society and culture.

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Glăveanu, V.P. (2014). Why do We Need to Distribute Creativity?. In: Distributed Creativity. SpringerBriefs in Psychology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05434-6_6

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