Hacia una creatividad ecológica

Abstract

The study of creativity, traditionally addressed by the disciplines of cognitive and personality psychology, has tended to focus on the person and their cognitive abilities, excluding from the research two variables considered fundamental in this study. On the one hand, the umwelt, understood as the natural or built environment that surrounds the organism and provides it with opportunities for life and action, and with which it establishes reciprocal constitutive relationships. On the other hand, the aisthesis, or the sensory, affective, and intellectual attention that the organism pays in its encounter with the world in search of opportunities for action. In contrast to the perspective of creativity focused on the cognitive abilities of the humanistic individual, this research proposes to understand it as a process that arises from the reciprocal action between being and environment, in which active exploration and aesthetic -or sensitive- attention play a fundamental role. It is argued that creating is a relational, situated and distributed process, which does not result so much from the manipulation of decontextualized representations, but from the action of an organism in/with its performative environment and the way in which it attends to and relates to it.

Date of Award	Mar 2024
Original language	Spanish
Supervisor	Jessica Patrici Jaques Pi (Director) & Miquel Molins Nubiola (Director)