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Conference scope:  

The topic of this conference and its wide, interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary scope is in tune with the main focus of our recent work, offering the possibility to other scholars and practitioners to share with our research team and with the international academic milieu their particular theoretical and practical insights into methodological issues connected to the concept of creativity and innovation. We live in the times of unprecedented global changes marked by complex relationship between technological innovation, social (in)justice and ecology. The underlying question of all debates on innovative methodologies among experts in different fields of science and arts is how to reconnect culture and nature, how to change conceptual approaches to the interior dimension of sustainability were the values and norms are made.We have made the list of recommended topics that is by no means exclusive.

Recommended topics include (but are not limited to) the following:

• models of discovery: creativity and/in/versus innovation
• creativity and cultural improvisation
• engineering of creativity
• innovative mix-method approaches
• remix(ed) methods and multimethodology
• the role of systems methodology in interdisciplinary research
• co-creating qualitative research
• practice-based research in arts, humanities and cultural studies
• innovative methodological hybrids in human geography
• researching performance - performing research
• research as a lived process: archives and beyond
• lived research and methodology: what’s new in feminist analysis?
• rethinking gender-studies research methods
• anti-oppressive arts-based methodologies
• the politics of science and innovation policies
• management of creativity
• philosophical methodology/ philosophy as methodology
• experimental philosophy: its advances and discontents
• methodological cognitivism - pro et contra
• enactivism as a methodology?/ enactivism as a new paradigm connecting neurophenomenology, social robotics and distributed cognition?
• the neuroscience of creativity: art, science and the brain
• neural networks methodologies and their application to real-worldproblems
• embodiment and digital technology research
• methodological innovation in digital arts
• creative pedagogy and innovative methodologies in education
• complexity theory and transdisciplinary research methodology
• social-ecological innovation: methodologies to bridge the gap between sciences and society; between technological development and social inequality