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This chapter expands on the study of what has been called Everyday Creativity (Richards 2007; Glaveanu 2014) to contribute to a creative poetics of the new everyday in which we increasingly live. In the current mix and mash of multiple polycultural interchange, identity plays, ubiquitous media, sweeping migration patterns, and conflictual enactments, it is now crucial to explore how multiple everyday rituals, meanings, social signals and values are created and how we create practices that reciprocally impact both individual and collective psyches and institutional structures. The chapter begins with an exposition of the daily creativity of young children emphasizing their play, wonder, and continual exploration, alone and with others. It emphasizes a “pre-production” stage of experimentation in which the usually thought of background plays with feeling, sensation, movement, and sound are foregrounded as practices of renewal, of both individual and collaborative creativity. The chapter continues by looking at the complex roles of media, books, schooling, games, and contact with people from a multiplicity of cultural backgrounds in creative possibility in the new daily landscapes, and it ends by giving examples of initiatives that employ new practices of everyday creativity, both individual and collective, in a variety of sociocultural settings.
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The author acknowledges his gratitude to Alfonso Montuori, Vlad Glăveanu, and Sally Duensing in thinking through the ideas in this chapter.
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Grand, I.J. (2016). Wonder Woman and the Polycultural Contexts of Everyday Creativity. In: Glăveanu, V. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Creativity and Culture Research. Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-46344-9_29
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