【Speaker】Professor Stephen Cummings, Victoria University of Wellington

【Title】Classic Western model, and China’s indigenous approaches to innovation and creativity

【Venue】Room 513, Weilun Building, Tsinghua SEM

【Organizer】Research Center for Technological Innovation

In the West people have searched for many decades to discover the best model to explain creativity, but this lecture examines why this might be a limited and limiting approach to understanding the creative process and why it is better to think of many ‘creativities’ than one unitary approach to creativity.

The lecture looks at alternatives to the classic Western model of the creativity such as Indian ‘Jugaard Innovation’ and East African ‘Jua Kali’ and asks how China’s indigenous approaches to innovation and creativity might evolve.