TY - JOUR

T1 - Creativity in Spaces of Possibilities for Sustainable Urban Development

T2 - An Empirical Study of Four Cultural Initiatives in Hanover, Germany

AU - Kagan, Sacha

N1 - The empirical research grounding this article was carried out within the framework of the “City as Space of Possibility” (“Stadt als Möglichkeitsraum”) Research Project at Leuphana University Lüneburg (2015–2018), which was supported by the “Niedersächsisches Vorab” advanced funding program from the Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony (Germany). I want to thank my colleagues within the “City as Space of Possibility” Research Project, namely: Volker Kirchberg, Antoniya Hauerwaas, Ute Stoltenberg, Ursula Weisenfeld, Annette Grigoleit, Patricia Wedler, Verena Holz, Julia Barthel, and several students assistants who visited a few events and meetings of KdW and provided me with their impressions and field notes. Over the duration of the empirical research, I was regularly supported by a part-time student assistant (namely Tim Bauer in the first year of the project, and then Elisabeth Böhnlein in the following two years), who contributed to fieldwork, filming, transcriptions, coding of the material and interpretation of the coded material. Another student assistant, Anna Oldiges, also contributed to the coding efforts in the final months. Publisher Copyright: © 2021 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

PY - 2021/11

Y1 - 2021/11

N2 - Creativity is a central feature of educational processes that aim for an artistic communication of sustainability challenges in the city. The study reported in this article empirically explores the deployment of social creativity in cultural initiatives struggling with issues of (un)sustainable urban development in their city (Hanover, Germany). On the one hand, individual characteristics of creativity are explored. On the other hand, forms of collective creativity are of interest, as well as the synthesis of individual and collective creativity under the concept of social creativity.

AB - Creativity is a central feature of educational processes that aim for an artistic communication of sustainability challenges in the city. The study reported in this article empirically explores the deployment of social creativity in cultural initiatives struggling with issues of (un)sustainable urban development in their city (Hanover, Germany). On the one hand, individual characteristics of creativity are explored. On the other hand, forms of collective creativity are of interest, as well as the synthesis of individual and collective creativity under the concept of social creativity.

KW - Collective creativity

KW - individual creativity

KW - social creativity

KW - spaces of possibility

KW - sustainable urban development

KW - Sociology

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85117318892&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1080/02604027.2021.1984157

DO - 10.1080/02604027.2021.1984157

M3 - Journal articles

AN - SCOPUS:85117318892

VL - 77

SP - 481

EP - 507

JO - World Futures

JF - World Futures

SN - 0260-4027

IS - 7

ER -