Worldmaking 2.0: Our Evolving Ideology

Abstract

Participatory views of creativity, including the emerging participatory synthesis described in Chapter 8, have some advantages over previous theories of creativity. The synthesis includes collaborative and field roles that were previously considered marginal to creativity. Like other participatory views, this synthesis promises to resolve some of the more problematic dichotomies that have arisen within creativity research, such as views of tradition and novelty as definitively oppositional and individuals and culture as inherently antagonist. Importantly, this emerging synthesis also aligns with much of the experience of everyday life in the early twenty-first century.