Interdisciplinary Doctoral Workshop
Tuesday
6
February
14:30
During the thirteenth seminar organised by My Experience Molise Project, three young scholars offered an interdisciplinary perspective on creativity based on their research:
1) "Collective Creativity in Disability Justice Dreaming: Social Change, Imagination, and Participation" - Àger Perez Casanovas (University of Barcelona)
Disability Justice Dreaming (2022-2023) was a creative collective that aimed to facilitate spaces for BIPOC and LGBTQ+ Disabled people, most of them artists and activists involved in Disability Justice initiatives. These spaces consisted of “dreaming sessions” that could take place in-person or online, where a series of prompts and questions were put forward to trigger reflection and to imagine states of affairs that were different from the present. In line with the design fiction workshops facilitated by Eliza Chandler and Esther Ignani at the University of Toronto, which used a virtual deck of cards to imagine possible worlds with different access needs in order to design artifacts for those futures, Disability Justice Dreaming drew on playful game dynamics to create configurations of the possible that could but not necessarily had to lead to social change.
2) "Literary machines: the creative and automatic life of texts" - Niccolò Monti (Università di Torino–Université de Paris VIII)
This seminar centered around a question: how can we read and judge literary texts which were created by automatic means? The aim was to introduce and to advance the debate on the artistic implications of writing machines (Hayles 2002), following two directions: one points to some instances of modern literary history, and the other to theories of textual interpretation, and specifically to how the institutions of aesthetic judgment have transformed at a similar pace as technological change, opening the way for inquiries on the hermeneutics of artificial texts.
3) "The Creative Aesthetics of Dreaming: Dreams in the Arts and Dreams as Art" - Gabriel Patricio Asís Sagrado (Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires - ITBA)
Dreams have inspired artists for centuries. This investigation aimed to approach the relationship between dreams and artistic creativity, and the relationship between dreams and art. Dreams stimulate creativity and can make significant contributions to the dreamer’s personal and professional life. The speech aimed to provide a philosophical overview of the way dreaming is related to artistic creativity and art.
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