 Mindfulness, imagination and creativity. Chapter 16 in The Atlas of Social Complexity, 2024, pp 196-206 from Edward Elgar Publishing Abstract: It is at the nexus of mindfulness, imagination, and creativity that the arts and humanities collide with the complexity science study of cognition, emotion, and consciousness. To explore this nexus, the focus of this chapter, we examine the five key issues that need to be addressed. The first is that we need to be clear what mindfulness, imagination, and creativity mean. The second is understanding the different levels or degrees of creativity. The third is the adverse impact that hyper-specialization has on these topics. The fourth is the continued restriction of creativity to a mental act, which ignores emotions, as in the case of spontaneous creativity and flow. The fifth is how creativity draws on our embodied minds and social life. We end the chapter by exploring what we see as the most promising inquiry in these areas. This chapter can be read in tandem with Chapter 32 The Unfinished Space. Keywords: Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Environment; Geography; Innovations and Technology; Politics and Public Policy Research Methods; Sociology and Social Policy; Teaching Methods; Urban and Regional Studies (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:elg:eechap:19387_16 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Chapters from Edward Elgar Publishing |
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