Cycle of workshops: “Humanity in question” / Theme 2022-2023: Creativity
Coordination: Mathilde Lequin (PACEA – CNRS)
• Second university semester 2022-2023
This workshop proposes to examine creativity in its different forms and in several disciplinary fields, from art history to biology, including prehistory, primatology and even philosophy. Creativity can in particular be understood as a psychological process, making it possible to analyze the cognitive characteristics of an individual, a population, a species, but also as a key to understanding living things, proceeding by invention (“adaptation” ) or by recombination and diversion (“exaptation”). This reflection on creativity leads to questioning the various ways of conceiving what appears as "new" in different disciplinary fields and consequently to questioning the categories which are used both to think about the history of art and the history of life. . Both an object of study and a category of analysis, creativity can also be considered as it manifests itself in the various ways of thinking about the world and its objects, through the development of new concepts or new models. . This workshop will, for example, link work in primate ethology on the material cultures of great apes, and the work of prehistorians, historians and art historians on the evolution of cultures. human material and artists and art or design theorists interested in these links.
