Creativity -- A New Vocabulary

Creativity -- A New Vocabulary proposes a novel approach to the way in which we talk and think about creativity. It covers a variety of topics not commonly associated with creativity that offer us valuable insights and open up new and exciting possibilities for creative action. This collection of essays challenges the ’traditional’ vocabulary of creativity and its preference for individuals, brains, cognition, personality, divergent thinking, insight, and problem solving. Instead, the book proposes a more dynamic and relational perspective that considers creativity as an embodied, social, material, and cultural process. This book will be useful for a wide range of specialists within the humanities and social sciences, as well as practitioners from applied fields who are looking for novel ways of thinking about and doing creative work.

Vlad Petre Glăveanu is Full Professor of Psychology at Dublin City University, Ireland, and Professor II at the Centre for the Science of Learning and Technology at the University of Bergen, Norway. He is the founder and president of the Possibility Studies Network (PSN), editor of the journal Possibility Studies & Society (Sage), and series editor, with Brady Wagoner, of the series Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture. His work focuses on creativity, imagination, culture, collaboration, wonder, and possibility.

Lene Tanggaard is Professor of Psychology in the Department of Communication and Psychology at Aalborg University, Denmark, where she serves as director of the QS-research group and co-director of the Center for Qualitative Studies. Her research focuses on the situational and contextual dimensions of creativity vis-à-vis real-life problems.

Charlotte Wegener is Associate Professor at the Department of Communication and Psychology at Aalborg University, Denmark. She researches social innovation in welfare organizations with a particular interest in learning across organizational and professional boundaries. Inspired by her background in music science and literature, she is passionate about language as material and seeks to expand academic writing by involving fiction, music, dreams, and everyday life experiences.