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Communicating Creativity

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This chapter of Communicating Creativity: The Discursive Facilitation of Creative Activity in Arts shows how student creative activity is driven by a hypothetical orientation to the future; one which typically involves a series of affordances and constraints. These future-oriented affordances and constraints are discursively constituted by the tutors through the use of the linguistic modal system (the use of verbs, such as might, can, and will), which as well as pragmatically functioning to both constrain and facilitate personal volition, is also linked to futurity.

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    In the context of this book, 3D loosely refers to work of a sculptural nature, while spatial loosely refers to work of an interior design or architectural nature.

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    He also makes the point that in certain contexts the positions of participants in a dialogue will be so disparate that no intersubjectivity is possible.

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    The conceptualisation of ‘looking at’ something can, within the historical context of art and design production, also be connected to the concept of the gaze (see Chap. 6).

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Hocking, D. (2018). Agency. In: Communicating Creativity. Communicating in Professions and Organizations. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55804-6_4

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