Vera Wolff: Catalogue data in Autumn Semester 2016 |
| Name | Dr. Vera Wolff |
| URL | https://www.wiss.ethz.ch/de/person.html?tx_jhpublications_pi1%5BempID%5D=46&cHash=f86060cfe2f882a2cfc158a04389eb00 |
| Department | Humanities, Social and Political Sciences |
| Relationship | Lecturer |
| Number | Title | ECTS | Hours | Lecturers | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 851-0157-67L | Creativity  Number of participants limited to 40. | 3 credits | 2S | M. Wulz, V. Wolff | |
| Abstract | Being creative may appear to be the most important requirement of the present age: creative thinking, start-ups, project development all seem to promise an ongoing innovation of work and life. Instead of repeating that promise once again, this course asks for the historical conditions of discourses of creativity. | ||||
| Learning objective | We will deal with historical and contemporary theories of inventive imagination, fantasy, and creativity. Looking at artistic, psychological, pedagogical, economic, and entrepreneurial discourses of creativity from the 18th to the 21st century we will discuss their specific contexts in order to uncover historical differences and changes. Is it indeed possible to identify conjunctions between the economicization, scientification and normalization of creativity? Are there any alternatives to the reigning paradigm of creativity? And if so, what are those? | ||||