State participation and artistic autonomy in creative city making

Exploring the role of cultural and artistic factors in Iranian-Islamic creative city(8)

One of the latest urban development strategies that emphasizes the importance of culture and art in the urban development process is the idea of creative city. Creative city is a cultural approach of urban development that emphasizes the improvement of the citizens’ life quality through the attraction and development of people's talents and creativity. The purpose of this study is to investigat...

Artistic Genius and Creative Cognition

Thagard, P. (forthcoming). Artistic genius and creative cognition. INTRODUCTION There are highly creative people in all domains of human productivity, including scientific discovery, technological invention, social innovation, and artistic imagination. All of these kinds of creativity require mental operations that generate ideas and other products that are both new and valuable. The main quest...

Embodied creativity : a process continuum from artistic creation to creative participation

Deliverable 1.4 Artistic Participation in eRENA

Descriptions of four proposals submitted to eRENA by three artists. These proposals form a basis for activities in eRENA years 2 and 3, especially in the “open” Work Package 7. In the proposals links with and aesthetic expressions of the themes in work packages 4, 5 and 6 have also been considered and promoted. The proposals strongly connect to the production themes of work package 4, the crowd...

Artistic Expression in the Making of Sa’di’s Sonnet

Is literature aesthetic in its form? If it is, what causes this beauty, creates this appeal and results in this artistic expression? Understanding the aesthetics of literature, poetry in particular, is made possible through the understanding of grammar (morphology, syntax, phonetics and semantics). Consequently, in the literary canon of the world, aesthetics are methodical, systematic and acces...