According to UNESCO, %E2%80%9CCreativity contributes to building open, inclusive and pluralistic societies,%E2%80%9D and %E2%80%9Cheritage and creativity lay the foundation for vibrant, innovative and prosperous knowledge societies.%E2%80%9D On an individual level, creativity is hailed as a %E2%80%9Ccrucial 21st century skill.%E2%80%9D Educators, politicians, business people, and scientists thus agree on the need to advance insight into creativity and creative processes across disciplines. Even so, with design studies as the prominent exception, creative processes have only been explored quite cursorily outside of psychology. Here, the humanities%E2%80%99 long-lived and profound expertise specifically in the artifact has proven both a boon and a blind spot.Without ignoring the artifact, this summer school course introduces a distinctly humanistic perspective on creative processes in art and design. As epitomized by Picasso, %E2%80%9CThe important thing is to create. Nothing else matters; creation is all.%E2%80%9D This course addresses just that. Creativity is a field imbued with (alleged) acumen and knowledge often built on %E2%80%99evidence by anecdote.%E2%80%99 To counterbalance such surmise, this crossdisciplinary course presents critical, research-based findings on creative processes from a variety of disciplines, including aesthetics, philosophy, neuroscience, design, and psychology.Creativity research has virtually exploded with contributions since the early 1990s. The cost has been a fragmentation of the field, which has led key figures from psychology to reach out to the humanities to help (re)formulate some of the %E2%80%98big%E2%80%99 unifying questions. One such has been posed by the newly started international AU research project CIBIS%E2%80"%E2%80"Creativity in Blended Interaction Spaces (16m DKK/4 years: Link), which aims to support high-school students%E2%80%99 creative potential through designing state-of-the-art interaction environments. The course thus benefits from the specialized expertise and technological resources offered by CIBIS.Through theme- and exercise-based teaching, this %E2%80%98crash course%E2%80%99 provides students with central theories, concepts, models, methods, and insights necessary to identify, analyze, reflect upon, and comfortably engage in creative processes not only in art and design, but in other creative domains and disciplines as well. The course affords the students the opportunity to further qualify and augment their own subject knowledge by adding to it a new, broadly informed humanistic perspective on creative processes.
Course leaderMichael Mose Biskjr, Postdoc, Department of Aesthetics and Communication - Information Science - Centre for Advanced Visualisation and Interaction - Participatory Information Technologyhttp://pure.au.dk/portal/en/persons/michael-mose-biskjaer(dc274c57-
Target groupMaster students with a relevant BA within humanities
Credits info9.9 ECTS Master's level
Fee infoEUR 333: Price: Students holding a preapproval including exchange students do not pay for the course.ONLY Free-mover students and Tomplads students MUST pay for the course: Danish and EU/ES (tomplads): 333 EURNON-EU-ES students (free-mover): 2100 EURBooks, course materials, social programme, and housing are not included in the tuition fee. Also be aware of course specific expenses mentioned in the description. EUR 2100: Price: Students holding a preapproval including exchange students do not pay for the course.ONLY Free-mover students and Tomplads students MUST pay for the course: Danish and EU/ES (tomplads): 333 EURNON-EU-ES students (free-mover): 2100 EURBooks, course materials, social programme, and housing are not included in the tuition fee. Also be aware of course specific expenses mentioned in the description.
No scholarships
Aarhus UniversityAddress: International Centre, H%C3%B8egh Guldbergsgade 4-6
Postal code: 8000
City: Aarhus
Country: Denmark
Website: www.au.dk/summeruniversity
E-mail: dfs@au.dk
Phone: +4551335274
