Productive and Creative Research with Man and Dolphin

In this dispatch, Elizabeth Jackson reflect upon the process and possible implications of a collaboration called "Stopgaps and Gems," a creative research project that saw newcomer youth exploring and sharing their personal experiences and insights with other members of Guelph's public. Following Jackson's piece, she and Lisa Hirmer engage in a dialogue about Hirmer's creative practice, Dodolab, and the ways in which her work conceptualizes, engages, and challenges conventional notions of power, place, and representation.

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The complexity paradigm in management reconceptualizing

Economic Annals ◽

10.2298/eka0567107p ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 50 (167) ◽

pp. 107-139

Author(s):

Slavica Petrovic

Keyword(s):

Nonlinear Systems ◽

Complexity Theory ◽

Systems Approach ◽

Full Potential ◽

Complex Dynamic ◽

Edge Of Chaos ◽

Order And Disorder ◽

Stability And Instability ◽

Creative Research ◽

Creativity And Innovation

Chaos and complexity theory is a special, functionalist systems approach to dealing with complex, dynamic, nonlinear systems. Through treating organizations as complex, with their environments coevolving, nonlinear systems, complexity theory is aimed at creative research of their erratic nature. When an organization is in a state of bounded instability, at the edge of chaos, order and disorder are intertwined, its behavior is irregular and unpredictable but has some pattern. According to the complexity paradigm organizations have to strive to avoid the equilibrium states of stability and instability. They have instead to strive to remain in a state of bounded instability, at the edge of chaos, where they are able to display their full potential for creativity and innovation.

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Exploring Creative Research Methodologies in the Humanities

The Palgrave Handbook of Creativity at Work ◽

10.1007/978-3-319-77350-6_10 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 203-222

Author(s):

Toby Young

Keyword(s):

Research Methodologies ◽

Creative Research

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Gabor A. Somorjai Award for Creative Research in Catalysis: David W. C. MacMillan

C&EN Global Enterprise ◽

10.1021/cen-09602-awards31 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 96 (2) ◽

pp. 44-44

Keyword(s):

Creative Research

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Cao Fei’s nostalgia for the future

Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art ◽

10.1386/jcca_00029_1 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 7 (2-3) ◽

pp. 261-279

Author(s):

Ellen Larson

Keyword(s):

Spatial Relationship ◽

Spatial Position ◽

Full Length ◽

New Work ◽

Republic Of China ◽

Industrial History ◽

Research Production ◽

Creative Research ◽

The Future

Between 2015 and 2020, artist Cao Fei occupied the former Beijing-based Hongxia Theatre, transforming the space into a vehicle for creative research, production and exhibition. This article will examine Cao Fei’s engagement with multiple temporalities as directly shaped by her spatial position within the theatre. Research related to the Hongxia Theatre and surrounding former People’s Republic of China (PRC)-era factory neighbourhood informs her understanding of not only China’s industrial history but also resurging connections to themes that exist across, within and beyond traditional temporal frameworks. The following narrative will employ Asia One (2018), the first full-length film made by Cao Fei since moving into the Hongxia Theatre, as a case study, highlighting strategies in which Hongxia fosters a pivotal spatial relationship between the artist’s new work and intersecting affinities towards time, memory and nostalgia. Drawing on China’s utopian past and dreams of a fully automated future, Asia One demonstrates a temporally nonlinear yearning to record both remembered and imagined emotional attachments, despite both globalizing and domestic conditions, which engender the urge to forget.

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