Center for Translational Neurophysiology of Speech and Communication, Italian Institute of Technology, Ferrara, Italy.
Structures Formelles du Langage, UMR 7023, CNRS, Paris, France.
BMC Neurosci. 2024 Nov 6;25(1):67. doi: 10.1186/s12868-024-00874-z.
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.
创造力是 21 世纪的关键技能，个体和集体适应的必要性无处不在。然而，如何将创造力理论付诸实践仍不清楚，这表明我们对获得创造力的实用方法的理解存在空白。本文从文献中的一些差距开始识别。特别是，个体创造力和群体创造力通常是分开处理的，对新颖性的强调似乎掩盖了专家对打破习惯性行为模式的重视。为了克服这些差距，我们提出了一个统一框架的基础，该框架采用了动态系统的观点。具体来说，我们建议去同步化，即破坏的标志，是在个体和集体分析层面上运作的创造性过程的一个组成部分。我们表明，通过唤起不确定性，去同步化状态为创造性的重新组织提供了机会。为了使这个框架具有现实基础，我们调查和讨论了现有的文献，并重点关注了群体即兴创作实践（特别是音乐和舞蹈即兴创作），在这些实践中，参与者通过互动的动态来实时呈现集体表演。在这些实践中，通过去同步化进行的破坏，在这里称为“协调问题化”，是一种用于推动创作过程的实用方法。我们认为，这种方法在其他类型的个体和集体创作过程中也可能相关。
