Alternative Knowledges — Communities · Creativity · Narration

Indigenous Knowledges Driving Technological Innovation

This policy brief explores the use and expands the conversation on the ability of geospatial technologies to represent Indigenous cultural knowledge. Indigenous peoples’ use of geospatial technologies has already proven to be a critical step for protecting tribal self-determination. However, the ontological frameworks and techniques of Western geospatial technologies differ from those of Indige...

Narration, Visualization and Mind

The paper is analyzing how people in late modern society characterized by detraditionalization, use moving images as a cultural resource for the construction of meaningful subjective world views. As a theoretical concept with several dimensions, “sacralization of the self” (Woodhead & Heelas 2000: 344), is related to media theory. With a critical focus on ‘the self’, as a core aspect in contemp...

The innovative firm: nexus of communities and creativity

CREATIVE DESIGN SITUATIONS Artificial creativity in communities of design agents

This paper presents the outline of experiments with a behaviourbased computational model of creativity in design called Creative Design Situations . This model aims to allow the study of social creativity through the computational implementation of a community of creative design agents. 1. Studies of Creativity Whilst the study of creativity in general has been a topic of interest in various di...

Opening Up? Reclaiming a Plurality of Knowledges

In this paper, I critically examine a number of notions about interdisciplinaryresearch approaches to the challenges posed by the world today. I juxtapose thiscritique with a discussion of interdisciplinary developments in Pacific studies, rais-ing questions as to how deeper dialogues between academic disciplines and theworldviews of Pacific Islanders may be reached. While inter...