What Can Be Done with an Egg? Creativity, Material Objects, and the Theory of Affordances

Autor/in	Glaveanu, Vlad P.
Titel	What Can Be Done with an Egg? Creativity, Material Objects, and the Theory of Affordances
Quelle	In: Journal of Creative Behavior, 46 (2012) 3, S.192-208 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-0175
DOI	10.1002/jocb.13
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Creativity; Sociocultural Patterns; Role; Correlation; Theories; Case Studies; Art Activities; Rural Areas; Romania + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Kreativität; Soziokulturelle Theorie; Rollen; Korrelation; Theory; Theorie; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Künstlerische Tätigkeit; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Rumänien
Abstract	This article offers a reflection on the role of material objects in the creative process and explores the potential links between creativity and the theory of affordances (Gibson, ), conceptualized from a sociocultural perspective. From this standpoint, creativity can be defined as a process of perceiving, exploiting, and "generating" novel affordances during socially and materially situated activities. Illustrations are offered for each of the above from a research project investigating traditional Easter egg decoration activities in rural Romania. This brief case study exemplifies the discovery of existing action potentials, the generation of objects with novel affordances, and the transgression of conventional procedures, all resulting in creative forms of expression. In the end, some conclusions are drawn regarding the ways in which an affordance theory of creativity can enrich our understanding of the phenomenon and contribute to the development of a new program of research concerned with situated and distributed creative acts. (Contains 3 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10