I am excited to announce the publication of a new book, edited by Danah Henriksen and yours truly. Titled Creative Provocations: Speculations on the future of creativity, technology & learning, it is part of the Springer series on Creativity Theory and Action in Education.

Note (added September 6, 2024): I just found out that our book was recently reviewed in the journal International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media.

Tahir, I. B. M. (2024). A review of Creative provocations: Speculations on the future of creativity, technology & learning. International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/14794713.2024.2391201

A few quotes from the review:

This edited volume is a collection of perspectives from various thinkers and researchers offering insights into the evolving future of education and the implications for thinking, learning, and teaching. The chapters examine the impact of recent and future technologies on creativity, teaching, and learning encompassing theoretical and practical aspects. The authors offer insights into the challenges and opportunities presented by technological advancements, propose new models for understanding creativity in education, and provoke thought on the future directions of creative learning.

This book successfully combines personal anecdotes with rigorous academic analysis, presenting an insightful yet profound exploration of the relationship between technology and creativity in education. By bringing together personal experiences with scholarly insights, the authors maintain a balance between subjective narrative and objective analysis …This approach makes the book both interesting and accessible… It moves smoothly from specific examples to broader theoretical discussions, allowing readers to understand the practical implications of the concepts discussed. This pragmatic approach increases the book’s utility for educators, researchers, and practitioners, making it relevant for a variety of audiences.

Creative Provocations serves as a practical guide for educators, researchers, and educational
practitioners interested in understanding how creativity can be enhanced through the use of
technology in education, since it provides comprehensive analysis and updated literature.
From the examples provided in the book, researchers in the field of media and communication
will appreciate of creative use of AI technologies providing a new paradigm for understanding
media, and academics in such areas will discover new ideas about participation, deep creativity
and life more broadly.

About the book on the back cover

This book explores the complex, yet critical, relationship between technology and creativity, specifically in educational cntexts. Creativity is importnat for success in today’s rapidly, radically contingent and hyperconnected world. This is even more relevant in the context of teaching and learning—where the psychological, sociological and cultural aspects of human learning confront the challenges of a rapidly changing, technologically saturated world.

Written by some of the foremost thinkers and researchers in the area of creativity and/or technology, the chapters in this volume examine the impact of recent and future technologies on creativity, teaching and learning. Individually and collectively, they help us develp an understanding of this nexus of creativity and technology for education. They offer new perspectives on this rapidly evolving future—exploring issues, paradoxes, tensions, and points of interest for creativity and technology. They position these issues in ways that consider implications for thinking, learning, teaching and education in general.

This book would not have been possible without the help from the Ronald A. Beghetto, Bharath Sriraman (series editors) and the entire team at Springer. Thanks to all the authors for their contributions, and of course a special thanks to the lead editor, friend and colleague, Danah Henriksen.

We dedicate the book as follows:

To current and past members of the Deep Play Research Group. Thank you for being part of this decade-long journey through creativity, technology and learning. Here’s to 10 more years and beyond.

Complete citation and table of contents (with links to the chapters on the publisher’s website) given below:

Citation

Henriksen, D., & Mishra, P. (Eds.). (2022). Creative Provocations: Speculations on the future of creativity, technology & learning. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14549-0

Table of contents

• Preface: Danah Henriksen & Punya Mishra (link to PDF)
• Blueprints for a Creativity Curriculum: Anthony Brandt
• The Intersection of Human and Artificial Creativity: David H. Cropley, Kelsey E. Medeiros, Adam Damadzic
• Conceiving Creativity and Learning in a World of Artificial Intelligence: A Thinking Model: Edwin Creely
• East Asian Creative Ecologies in Networked Educational Worlds: Dan X. Harris
• Room to Run: Using Technology to Move Creativity into the Classroom: Jonathan A. Plucker, Melanie S. Meyer, Sareh Karami, Mehdi Ghahremani
• Creativity, Embodiment and Ensembles Through Technological Interactions in Critical-Creative Higher Education: Tatiana Chemi
• The Future of the Fine Arts: Aaron Kozbelt
• Embodied Creativity and Technology: A Complex Relationship: Paula Thomson, S. Victoria Jaque
• What Else Can This Be?: Creativity as an Iterative Practice: Rabbi Adina Allen, Pat B. Allen
• Creative Pedagogies with Technology: Future Proofing Teaching Training in Music: Leon de Bruin, Bradley Merrick
• Why We Should Take a Second Look at the Politics of Creativity: The Dangers of a Celebratory Mode: Shakuntala Banaji
• Teaching (for) Experimental Creativity: David W. Galenson
• How Not to Kill Creativity?: Yong Zhao
• Engaging Uncertainty: Principles and Provocations for Promoting Creative Learning Futures: Ronald A. Beghetto
• Dialogical Provocations: A Creative Trialogue: Vlad Petre Gl?veanu, Giovanni Emanuele Corazza, Ingunn Johanne Ness