De-sync: disruption of synchronization as a key factor in individual and collective creative processes
Abstract Creativity is a key skill for the twenty-first century, where the individual and collective imperative to adapt is omnipresent. Yet, it is still unclear how to put creativity theories into practice, which signals a lacuna in our understanding of the pragmatic means by which we get creative....
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| description | Abstract Creativity is a key skill for the twenty-first century, where the individual and collective imperative to adapt is omnipresent. Yet, it is still unclear how to put creativity theories into practice, which signals a lacuna in our understanding of the pragmatic means by which we get creative. This paper starts from the identification of a number of gaps in the literature. In particular, individual and group creativity are usually treated separately, and the emphasis on the search for novelty seems to overshadow the importance experts give to the disruption of their habitual patterns of behavior. To overcome these gaps, we propose foundations for a unifying framework that takes the perspective of dynamical systems. Specifically, we suggest that de-synchronization, a hallmark of disruption, is an integral part of the creative processes that operate across individual and collective levels of analysis. We show that by conjuring uncertainty, de-synchronized states provide opportunities for creative reorganization. In order to ground this framework, we survey and discuss existing literature, and focus on group improvisation practices (in particular, music and dance improvisation), where partners use the dynamics of their interaction to bring forth a collective performance in real-time. In these practices, disruption by de-synchronization, termed here as ‘problematization of coordination’, is a pragmatic approach used to push the creative process forward. We suggest that this approach might also be relevant in other types of individual and collective creative processes. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-7b28b5b7d22448acb09bb34b8e6de4de2024-11-10T12:09:36ZengBMCBMC Neuroscience1471-22022024-11-0125112210.1186/s12868-024-00874-zDe-sync: disruption of synchronization as a key factor in individual and collective creative processesJulien Laroche0Asaf Bachrach1Lior Noy2Center for Translational Neurophysiology of Speech and Communication, Italian Institute of TechnologyStructures Formelles du Langage, UMR 7023, CNRSFaculty of Business Administration, Ono Academic CollegeAbstract Creativity is a key skill for the twenty-first century, where the individual and collective imperative to adapt is omnipresent. Yet, it is still unclear how to put creativity theories into practice, which signals a lacuna in our understanding of the pragmatic means by which we get creative. This paper starts from the identification of a number of gaps in the literature. In particular, individual and group creativity are usually treated separately, and the emphasis on the search for novelty seems to overshadow the importance experts give to the disruption of their habitual patterns of behavior. To overcome these gaps, we propose foundations for a unifying framework that takes the perspective of dynamical systems. Specifically, we suggest that de-synchronization, a hallmark of disruption, is an integral part of the creative processes that operate across individual and collective levels of analysis. We show that by conjuring uncertainty, de-synchronized states provide opportunities for creative reorganization. In order to ground this framework, we survey and discuss existing literature, and focus on group improvisation practices (in particular, music and dance improvisation), where partners use the dynamics of their interaction to bring forth a collective performance in real-time. In these practices, disruption by de-synchronization, termed here as ‘problematization of coordination’, is a pragmatic approach used to push the creative process forward. We suggest that this approach might also be relevant in other types of individual and collective creative processes.https://doi.org/10.1186/s12868-024-00874-zCreativityDisruptionSynchronizationDe-synchronizationCollective dynamicsDistributed creativity |
| spellingShingle | Julien Laroche Asaf Bachrach Lior Noy De-sync: disruption of synchronization as a key factor in individual and collective creative processes BMC Neuroscience Creativity Disruption Synchronization De-synchronization Collective dynamics Distributed creativity |
| title | De-sync: disruption of synchronization as a key factor in individual and collective creative processes |
| title_full | De-sync: disruption of synchronization as a key factor in individual and collective creative processes |
| title_fullStr | De-sync: disruption of synchronization as a key factor in individual and collective creative processes |
| title_full_unstemmed | De-sync: disruption of synchronization as a key factor in individual and collective creative processes |
| title_short | De-sync: disruption of synchronization as a key factor in individual and collective creative processes |
| title_sort | de sync disruption of synchronization as a key factor in individual and collective creative processes |
| topic | Creativity Disruption Synchronization De-synchronization Collective dynamics Distributed creativity |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12868-024-00874-z |
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