Creativity and identities

Creativity and identities

How does cultural diversity contribute to cultural creativity in Europe?, Arturo Rodríguez Morató, Matías I. Zarlenga and Martín Zamorano, CECUPS, Universitat de Barcelona

In this paper, we want to examine, in a general and exploratory way, what academic literature has contributed so far to the clarification of the relationship between cultural diversity and creativity in Europe, highlighting the main aspects and the main problems that in this respect have been addressed. In the first part of the article, we identify studies addressing the issue of diversity and cultural encounters as a specific cultural phenomenon linked to processes of hybridization in different areas of cultural creation. In the second part of our analysis we identified academic and non-academic literature addressing the issue of diversity and cultural creativity in two specific territorial frameworks: the city and Europe. The contrast between the two types of inquiry -the first one about the more theoretically inspired knowledge and the second one about the more practically and politically connected knowledge- reveal some major gaps and some unexplored potential of the research on the subject.

Creativity and identities I

Creativity and identities I

Vision Document. New Frameworks of Cultural Creativity Matías I. Zarlenga The purpose of this Vision Document is to go beyond the prevailing view of cultural creativity as one dominated by...

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Creativity and identities II

Creativity and identities II

Vision Document. Cultural hybridization in Europe. Arturo Rodríguez Morató  Cultural diversity and cultural complexity has dramatically increased in Europe in recent times. Cultural hybridization is very important in this context...

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