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Originality and Creativity in Everyday Arts

  • Jiayi Tian (Organiser)
  • Ningxiang Sun (Organiser)
  • Linzhi Zhang (Contributor)
  • Laura Harris (Contributor)
  • Mccormick, L. (Contributor)
  • Kat Jungnickel (Keynote/plenary speaker)

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Description

The conference, jointly funded by the BSA PGR Forum Regional Event Fund and the SPS Student Initiative Fund, brought together postgraduate researchers from across the UK and beyond to explore how creativity and originality are socially constructed, culturally directed, and practically negotiated in diverse artistic contexts, with a particular focus on historically underrepresented artistic traditions in our scholarly discourse. It included three paper sessions, i.e., “The Art-Art: Creativity Within Professional Artistic Practices,” “The Quasi-Art: Aesthetic Expression in Everyday Life,” and “The Non-Art: Creative Practices Beyond Traditional Artistic Domains,” and a keynote by Professor Kat Jungnickel from Goldsmiths, University of London, which was entitled “Making Things to Make Sense of Things: Research, writing and practice in and out of the academy.”
Period12 May 2025
Event typeConference
LocationEdinburgh, United KingdomShow on map
Degree of RecognitionNational

Keywords

  • Creativity
  • Originality
  • Aesthetic Expression
  • STS
  • Cultural Sociology
  • Sociology of the Arts