CREATIVE INTERACTIONS
Dynamic Processes in Group Music Activities
Thursday 30 May - Saturday 1 June 2019
University of Music and Performing Arts, Munich, Germany
Conference Directors: Andrea Sangiorgio, Wolfgang Mastnak
In the field of education there is a multifaceted rationale explaining the urgency of investigating and implementing "creativity in relationship". Well beyond transmitting established knowledge and skills, educational institutions have to prepare future generations to work creatively in teams. Indeed, innovation relies on the capacity of people and organisations to collaboratively engage in creative processes of knowledge building. In this sense, group creativity is becoming a core topic both in research and in pedagogical practice.
The aim of the conference is to gather together researchers, teachers and students to share ideas on collaborative creativity in music learning and on various modes of dynamic processes that take place when two or more people invent something new in music together. The theme is transversal to diverse areas and contexts: early childhood, primary and secondary education, higher education, but also special education, instrumental tuition, out-of-school contexts, etc.
Be it with young children, adolescents, students, adult learners or artists, collaborative creativity can be viewed from different perspectives:
- How teaching and learning processes can be structured and what pedagogical criteria are relevant in fostering a group-based creative attitude in learners.
- What different kinds of outcomes and results emerge from the process – with regard to musical products as well as psychological, social or cultural aspects.
- What role learning environments play in fostering creative collaboration (setting, curricula, institutional characteristics, cultural policies, etc.).
- What challenges and possible obstacles can hinder the pursuit of such creative interactions (e.g. assessment, insufficient training of teachers, more traditional pedagogical practices and ideologies, etc.)
- How different schools of thought define creativity in the group and how such creativity can be elucidated in interdisciplinary contexts.
The importance of creative learning and teaching for creativity as a fundamental theme in education and music education cannot be overestimated. We are looking forward to enjoying three days of inspiring presentations, debates, workshops and concerts with you and reflecting on how we collectively create our art and our future!
Important dates
October 15, 2018: Call for Papers open
January 7, 2019: Early bird registration open
February 11, 2019: Deadline for abstract submission
By February 21, 2019: Notification of abstract acceptance
May 5, 2019: Early bird closed
May 6, 2019: Late payment registration open
May 30 – June 1, 2019: Conference in Munich
