Symposium: Research as a Radical Act of Creativity

Radical creativity brings forward new ideas that challenge prevailing organisational modus operandi, rejecting incremental and iterative processes in favour of novel practices and approaches. Within the context of radical creativity, learning objectives focus on meaning-making, triggering curiosity and tackling complexity through problem framing.

This symposium focuses on the impact of creativity on research itself by mapping what radical creativity might mean in different fields of research. What might be the differences in the meaning of creativity to researchers in art, in business, in computer science, or in media? In this symposium, speakers from across the university will interrogate what we know and what potentialities there may be through research as a radical act of creativity.

Schedule

9:00 - 9:15          Welcome: Tuomas Auvinen and Saija Hollmen
9:15 - 9:30           Introduction: Mira Kallio-Tavin   
9:30 - 10:00         Henri Weijo: “Radical?” and “Creativity?”: Observations on Conceptual Slippage
10.00 - 10.10      Break
10:10 - 10:40      Juuso Tervo:  Decolonizing Dirty Words: Research and Radical Creativity
10:40 - 11:05       Lily Diaz-Kommonen: Hybrids as Site of Fermentation and Effervescence
11:05 - 11:30       Tassu Takala: Creative Computing
11:30 - 11:40      Break
11:40 - 12:05      Timothy Smith: Creativity as Expérience
12:05 - 1:00        Discussion

2 October 9.00-13.00 online conference via Zoom.