Creativity East Midlands (CREEM)
Lead Research Organisation:
De Montfort University
Department Name: School of Media and Communication
Abstract
We will use a combination of face to face meetings and online collaboration tools to share, explore and converge our various conceptualisations of the creativity domain. We will employ Tuckman's four stage team-development model: "Forming Storming Norming Performing" and the broad methodological framework.
1. Forming Month 1-3
Participants begin to get to know each other and contribute their perspectives, priorities, issues etc to the collective knowledge pool. The initial contact needs to be face-to-face as far as possible to establish participant identities and foster rapid development of working relationships. Following and initial one-day meeting, information giving and clarification can be conducted remotely via a wiki and Access grid videoconferencing.
2. Storming Month 4-6
Information giving and clarification shades through into a period in which participants increasingly begin to challenge statements, debate issues, priorities and generate new ideas. This is a critical phase as it paves the way for successful integration (norming) and productive work (performing). A one-day symposium will bring this phase to a head. Participants will be helped towards the creation of a "map" drawing on Soft Systems Analysis (Checkland 1981) to develop a shared understanding of the scope and structure of the research territory, identifying outstanding differences and conflicts. This will underpin the generation of the first draft ontology for the domain.
Norming Months 7-9
During the norming phase participants will further converge their ideas, building on the consensus around the current picture. Soft systems "Rich Picture" development techniques and ontology refinement will be continued, conducted remotely and collaboratively initially and coming together in a one-day symposium to refine and agree the research domain description and priorities. Output will be a first draft ontology.
Performing Months 10-12
Selected key authors will be mapped on to the ontology to create a conceptual reference model for the creativity domain. The test for the ontology will be whether it enables these texts to be disambiguated. A final two-day, self-financing, symposium will present a mixed programme of internally generated papers presenting the results of the workshop alongside invited, refereed, papers from external authors. Outputs will be (a) specific proposals that seek to apply the ontology to the research topics listed in "Rationale and Research context" above; (b) journal papers across a wide range of disciplines and an edited book.
1. Forming Month 1-3
Participants begin to get to know each other and contribute their perspectives, priorities, issues etc to the collective knowledge pool. The initial contact needs to be face-to-face as far as possible to establish participant identities and foster rapid development of working relationships. Following and initial one-day meeting, information giving and clarification can be conducted remotely via a wiki and Access grid videoconferencing.
2. Storming Month 4-6
Information giving and clarification shades through into a period in which participants increasingly begin to challenge statements, debate issues, priorities and generate new ideas. This is a critical phase as it paves the way for successful integration (norming) and productive work (performing). A one-day symposium will bring this phase to a head. Participants will be helped towards the creation of a "map" drawing on Soft Systems Analysis (Checkland 1981) to develop a shared understanding of the scope and structure of the research territory, identifying outstanding differences and conflicts. This will underpin the generation of the first draft ontology for the domain.
Norming Months 7-9
During the norming phase participants will further converge their ideas, building on the consensus around the current picture. Soft systems "Rich Picture" development techniques and ontology refinement will be continued, conducted remotely and collaboratively initially and coming together in a one-day symposium to refine and agree the research domain description and priorities. Output will be a first draft ontology.
Performing Months 10-12
Selected key authors will be mapped on to the ontology to create a conceptual reference model for the creativity domain. The test for the ontology will be whether it enables these texts to be disambiguated. A final two-day, self-financing, symposium will present a mixed programme of internally generated papers presenting the results of the workshop alongside invited, refereed, papers from external authors. Outputs will be (a) specific proposals that seek to apply the ontology to the research topics listed in "Rationale and Research context" above; (b) journal papers across a wide range of disciplines and an edited book.
Organisations
People |
ORCID iD |
| Stephen Brown (Principal Investigator) |
| Description | The CREEM project used a combination of Web 2.0 social media tools and traditional cafe-style meetings and lectures to create a community of interest amongst practitioners and researchers based in the east Midlands, supported by a Jisc mail list. |
| Exploitation Route | The rapid transformation of the Creem programme of lectures, cafe style discussions and online discussion into the Nesta funded Amplified Leicester project and its relationship with the Square mile project could be examined as a case study in technology supported social networks and use of technology to amplify the effects of actors in a purposeful network to support knowledge transfer and the creative economy. |
| Sectors | Creative Economy |
| URL | http://creem.dmu.ac.uk |
| Description | Creem fed directly into the Nesta funded 'Amplified Leicester' project http://www.nesta.org.uk/publications/amplified-leicester-impact-social-capital-and-cohesion and indirectly into the highly successful 'Square Mile' project http://www.dmu.ac.uk/about-dmu/dmu-square-mile/dmu-square-mile.aspx. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2006 |
| Sector | Creative Economy |
| Impact Types | Cultural |
| Title | Creation of Jiscmail list - creativity@jiscmail.ac.uk |
| Description | Moderated online discussion list linked to and supporting the CREEM project (CREativity East Midlands) open to any one to join. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2006 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The CREEM project used a combination of Web 2.0 social media tools and traditional cafe-style meetings and lectures to create a community of interest amongst practitioners and researchers based in the east Midlands. It fed directly into the Nesta funded 'Amplified Leicester' project http://www.nesta.org.uk/publications/amplified-leicester-impact-social-capital-and-cohesion and indirectly into the highly successful 'Square Mile' project http://www.dmu.ac.uk/about-dmu/dmu-square-mile/dmu-square-mile.aspx. |
| URL | http://creem.dmu.ac.uk |
| Description | Creativity conversations |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 13 public seminars with invited speakers in an informal cafe style environment attended by a broad spectrum of the public plus staff and students of DMU and other universities locally. Described by one participant as "The best academic series I have been to in 30 years". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2008 |
| URL | http://creem.dmu.ac.uk/ |