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Creative Action

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Creative Action refers to the process of engaging in innovative and original activities that combine imagination and practical execution to produce new ideas, solutions, or artistic expressions. It emphasizes the role of creativity in driving change and fostering problem-solving in various contexts, including art, education, and social initiatives.
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Creative Action refers to the process of engaging in innovative and original activities that combine imagination and practical execution to produce new ideas, solutions, or artistic expressions. It emphasizes the role of creativity in driving change and fostering problem-solving in various contexts, including art, education, and social initiatives.

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1. How do situated constraints and variability foster creative motor action in dynamic systems?

This theme investigates creative action not as a pre-formed cognitive ideation but as an emergent property of the interaction between the individual, task, and environment constraints within dynamic systems. It challenges traditional cognitive views by emphasizing how practice that manipulates these constraints enhances exploration and variability in movement patterns, leading to novel, functional motor solutions.

Key finding: This work demonstrates that creative motor actions emerge during the act itself through exploration driven by the interplay of individual, task, and environmental constraints, rather than from pre-existing ideas. The authors... Read more
Key finding: The authors conceptualize action performance as inherently improvisational, with agents dynamically adjusting intentions and behaviors in situational contexts via abductive judgement. This improvisational view complements the... Read more
Key finding: Analyzing expert improvisers in dance and music, this study identifies creative motor action as an oscillation between spontaneous 'letting happen' and controlled agency. It situates creative action within enactive... Read more

2. How do sociomaterial and cultural contexts shape the processes and expression of creative action?

This theme explores creativity as not merely individual cognitive ideation but as an embodied, socially situated, and materially entangled process. It highlights the importance of cultural narratives, embodied experience, and the material environment in co-constructing creativity, moving beyond cognitive-centric frameworks to encompass broader social-relational and material dynamics.

Key finding: This article argues that creative ideas and the creative process must be understood as contextualized, embodied, and sociomaterial ‘antenarratives’ rather than isolated mental events. It emphasizes the paradoxical interplay... Read more
Key finding: Studying play, this work demonstrates that creative actions are often distributed across participants and mediated by digital and physical artifacts, showing that creative expression emerges through social interaction and... Read more
Key finding: Through action research with children, this study finds that participatory performance art enhances creativity via affective experiences embedded in social interaction and performative contexts. It evidences how creativity is... Read more
Key finding: This essay examines creative action in non-performance artworks through the lens of performance art, emphasizing how performative and scripted acts imbue static art forms with agency and temporality. It bridges the gap... Read more

3. How can creative action be conceptualized and operationalized in organizational and social practices beyond individual cognition?

This theme addresses creative action as a multifaceted phenomenon in organizational, managerial, and social contexts that incorporates non-rational faculties, collective poetics, practical epistemologies, and normative interpretations. It advances creative action beyond ideational generation to include embodied, affective, and performative dimensions integral to innovation, agency, and social practices.

Key finding: This study argues that understanding strategic change requires expanding theories of dynamic capabilities to include non-rational faculties such as imagination, intuition, and aesthetic sensibility. It conceptualizes... Read more
Key finding: Through surveying organizational creativity research, this paper proposes integrating creativity studies with practice-based epistemologies. It conceptualizes creativity as an emergent property of organizational practices... Read more
Key finding: The authors propose a process model of creative thinking emphasizing deliberate and intentional navigation along a spectrum of conventionality. They distinguish between spontaneous, unconscious routes to creativity and an... Read more
Key finding: Through empirical analysis of creators in art, design, science, scriptwriting, and music, this paper develops an action theory of creativity highlighting its relational and intersubjective nature. It shows how creative works... Read more
Key finding: Focusing on teacher education in Chile, this study develops the concept of Creative Action within didactic operations, relating it to curricular adaptation and pedagogical practice. Findings highlight how situated didactic... Read more

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This chapter focuses on the question of how to explain agency in the context of motherhood. In so doing, it seeks to go beyond the tendency to focus exclusively on the burden of coordination which institutional structures generate for... more
The health context related to the COVID-19 virus has implied challenges for various areas in which the educational sphere stands out. Preventive measures of social distancing and quarantine have led to classes being given virtually... more
This chapter focuses on the question of how to explain agency in the context of motherhood. In so doing, it seeks to go beyond the tendency to focus exclusively on the burden of coordination which institutional structures generate for... more
The health context related to the COVID-19 virus has implied challenges for various areas in which the educational sphere stands out. Preventive measures of social distancing and quarantine have led to classes being given virtually... more
This research aims to learn about the perception about didactics of professors who teach English in the study programs of Bachelor of Education and English Pedagogy, and Bachelor of English and English-Spanish Translation at the... more
The case study of the Elementary Education Pedagogy program, practical axis of the University of Atacama, Copiapó, Chile (UDA), sought to generate the theoretical-methodological category Didactic Operation, as a possibility of improvement... more
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