Creative research

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What is creative research?

Research as a creative excercise? Creativity as a research excercise? The excercise of creatively researching? The excercise of researching creations?

Where research works to invent/create, or works to study inventions/creations, where it intersects with the work of creative/inventive practice...

CREATIVITY, INVENTION & RESEARCH

But anyway, what do we (I, you) actually mean by creativity?

Creativity, as in:

• creating masterpieces (you might think - by artists, but it could be argued, and no doubt already has been, that masterpieces are also created by critics and publics who engage in the reverence and memorisation of a work)
• creating noise (you might think, by people or machines, but there are many examples where noise arises as the result of a less clearly motivated collection of connections - such as the noise of the city at 7.20a.m. or the cacaphony of the congo. And then, of course, there is a whole school of thought that works to diminish the divide between noise and sound, so again it seems it is critics and publics who designate its creation, according to the thresholds and processual limitation of their ears and brains, and their ethical sense of how much can be inflicted upon these organs, and at what time of day this should be tolerated, etc)
• creating meals (while most people would think of the ritualised and improvisory acts of preparation and combination within the culinary arts, the result of eating anything automatically turns it into a meal, so again, this creation is in the eye of the beholder, or in this case, mouth)
• creating rain (by clouds, a phenomenon observable through meteorological science, which links it into a contingent cyclical process, dependent upon on a whole range of condition)

Creativity in these presumes some kind of linear determination of effect, one thing, or an interaction of many things, creates something in turn. It also seems to be a designation of criticism and science, a work of definition and designation.

Above, through the use of the "/" icon, I implied that creation can be equated invention.

What is invention? Invention is commonsensically deemed to be an act of motivation which result in the emergence of something new. I think creativity is often pitched this way, as the conscious determination of something new, even though above I've managed to deduce that it is more likely the critical/scientific designation of causation.

The term invention is used mostly in relation to the techniques of engineering and conceptualisation. Invention is the product of practical work by capable innovators, working to extend or advance of our existing range of techniques and technologies. We would never say, for example, that the rain invents the clouds. Likewise, we would never say that a new species was invented through complex ecological conditions and processes; instead, we'd say something like the new species resulted from mutation, natural selection etc.

Why might we use the terms created, then? What's different about it? Is it that every phenomenon can be deemed creative, but not inventive? Does the use of the terms creative in these contexts enact a recourse to the diefication of causes, where there is deemed to be a universal operation of creative process, as an eternal expression of an essential force, or as the indirect continuation of an originary source event/act? This of course opens up a whole can of worm(hole)s space time philosophical problems about newness, difference, continuity, repitition...

• Creativity as in causality, something that has occured always, as an apriori condition of life and existence?
• Creativity as in invention, as something that occurs rarely, as a specialised, singular event, expressive of a will to newness and difference?
• Creativity as a pure subjective definition articulated within the confines of our expressive abilities?
• Or creativity as a registery of institutionally recognised practices, works and definitons?

How can we now relate these notions of creativity to research?

It might be better to ask: what is not creativity? Destruction? Inactivity?

However, we are working within an institutional framework. There are guidelines governing the legitimacy and validity of research practices. Of course, these guidelines, and this institutional framework, are objects of research themselves, that contain mechanisms and protocols that can be

Of course, our definition a research can be equally open.

Authors

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