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Creativity, Design Thinking and Interdisciplinarity

  • Offers an overview of the interactions between creativity, design and interdisciplinary studies
  • Deals with the challenges and opportunities met by researchers and practitioners working on design thinking, creativity and inter- and transdisciplinarity
  • Brings together different approaches and communities around a common reflection on interdisciplinary creative design thinking
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Creativity in the Twenty First Century (CTFC)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
  2. Thinking About Creativity, Design Thinking and Interdisciplinarity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Creativity, Design, and Transdisciplinarity

      • Julie Thompson Klein
      Pages 53-68
    3. Domain Generality and Specificity in Creative Design Thinking

      • Matthew Worwood, Jonathan A. Plucker
      Pages 83-97
  3. Thinking Outside the Box: Interdisciplinary Process and Action in Creative Design Thinking

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99
    2. The Multivariate Approach and Design of the Creative Process

      • Julien Nelson, Marion Botella
      Pages 101-113
    3. From Design Thinking to Design Doing

      • Tue Juelsbo, Lene Tanggaard, Vlad Petre Glaveanu
      Pages 149-167
    4. C-K Theory: Modelling Creative Thinking and Its Impact on Research

      • Armand Hatchuel, Pascal Le Masson, Benoit Weil
      Pages 169-183
    5. Technological Innovation in Group Creativity

      • Stéphanie Buisine, Jérôme Guegan, Frédéric Vernier
      Pages 185-201

About this book

This book, at the crossroads of creativity, design and interdisciplinary studies, offers an overview of these major trends in scientific research, society, culture and economics. It brings together different approaches and communities around a common reflection on interdisciplinary creative design thinking. This collective effort provides a unique dialogical and convergent space that deals with the challenges and opportunities met by researchers and practitioners working on design thinking, creativity and inter- and transdisciplinarity, or at the interface between these areas.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Geneva , Geneva, Switzerland

    Frédéric Darbellay

  • University of Teacher Education Valais , Canton of Valais, Switzerland

    Zoe Moody

  • LATI, Université Paris Descartes LATI, Paris, France

    Todd Lubart

About the editors

Dr. Frédéric Darbellay is Professor of Inter- and Transdisciplinarity at the Centre for Children's Rights Studies, University of Geneva. His main research interests are Inter- and Transdisciplinary research and teaching, Epistemology, Creativity, Higher Education Studies and Children’s Rights.

Dr. Zoe Moody is Professor of Educational Sciences at the University of Teacher Education Valais and Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Children's Rights Studies, University of Geneva. Her research lies at the intersection of Education Sciences and Children’s rights studies in an inter- and transdisciplinary perspective.

Dr. Todd Lubart is Professor of Psychology at the Université Paris Descartes, and former Member of the Institut Universitaire de France. His research focuses on creativity, its identification and development within the multivariate approach of the creative process, creative potential and giftedness.

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Softcover Book USD 199.99
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