Mapping qualities of cultural co-creativity

This paper explores some of the ways in which ideas of co-creativity have been recently theorized and enacted across disciplines. Drawing on previous research into co-creative practices and practitioners in the arts and anthropology, and a review of literature across multiple disciplines, it proposes a number of qualities of cultural co-creativity as constellated, positional, situated, mutable, and evolutionary. Using a recent process of co-creative exhibition design in a university teaching context as illustration, the paper outlines recurring themes, issues and potential implications for emergent understandings of co-creativity with particular reference to education and learning.