[spectre] RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2014 — Spatialities of Co-Creation

[marc garrett]

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RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2014 — Spatialities of Co-Creation.

Spatialities of Co-Creation, Collaboration & Peer Production in the 
Digital Age.

Day of presentations and discussion at the Royal Geographic Society 
Conference next Wednesday.

Tatiana Bazzichelli, Paula Crutchlow, Natalia Avlona, Alessandro Gandini 
and Adam Arvidsson, Kei Kreutler, Maria Androulaki among others.

Convenor(s)
Penny Travlou (University of Edinburgh)
Ruth Catlow (Furtherfield)
Marc Garrett (Furtherfield)

Session abstract. Wednesday 27 August 2014 - check page for other 
sessions during the day.

This session looks at novel models of creativity in reference to 
collaborative practices, co-creation and peer production focusing on 
their spatiality within a transglobal and digitally-fused environment. 
Within this context, creativity is understood as a synergy of spaces, 
practices and artifacts, interlinked in such a manner that their 
singularity(-ies) form an assemblage. We can consider creativity, and 
subsequent knowledge formation, as forms of social interaction rather 
than the outcomes of social activities. Whilst we commonly perceive 
creativity as the product of the individual artist, or creative 
ensemble, from this perspective creativity can also be considered an 
emergent phenomenon of communities, driving change and facilitating 
individual or ensemble creativity. Creativity can be a performative 
activity released when engaged through and by a community. Creativity, 
thus, can be also regarded as an emergent property of relations, of 
communities. As James Leach (2004), the British anthropologist, suggests 
creativity can be proposed as a collective becoming where the creation 
of new things, and the ritualized forms of exchange enacted around them, 
function to “create” individuals and bind them in social groups, thus 
“creating” the community they inhabit and generate new places in the 
landscape.

http://conference.rgs.org/Conference/sessions/view.aspx?session=fb4e420f-9b0b-43e9-9063-a069206a30d5&programme=48