New perspectives on developmental sequences and cycles in creative work

The purpose of this symposium is to bring together emerging empirical research that examine creativity highlighting new ways of theorizing the development of creativity over time. We present five papers that investigate (a) new ways of thinking about sequences and development within a creative project, (b) how personal history shapes engagement in creative work, and (c) how and when one creative project leads to another. The presentations cover how the team that built one of the world’s first social robot deals with ambiguity; how products made out of “dirty” materials are de-radicalized; how circus artists draw on their biographies as raw material; how creators in makerspaces switch from one project to another; and how “one-hit-wonders” affect cookbook authors’ creative careers. What’s a Social Robot to Do? Resolving Ambiguity Through an Emergent Innovation Process in Groups Presenter: Johnathan …