LEADER 05113nam 22007335 450 001 9911047697303321 005 20251115120416.0 010 $a9783032011985 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-032-01198-5 035 $a(CKB)43368457000041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC32420037 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL32420037 035 $a(OCoLC)1553141349 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-032-01198-5 035 $a(EXLCZ)9943368457000041 100 $a20251115d2025 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCreative Practice and Embodied Narratives $eTransdisciplinary Inquiry through the Body, Story, and System /$fby Barbara Doran 205 $a1st ed. 2025. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2025. 215 $a1 online resource (366 pages) 225 1 $aPalgrave Advances in Possibility Studies,$x3091-258X 311 08$a9783032011978 327 $aAbstract -- Chapter 1. The Lay of the Land -- Chapter 2. My Process in Making Art -- Chapter 3. Transdisciplinary Enquiry and a Phenomenological Approach -- Chapter 4. A Global Traveler -- Chapter 5. Culture as a membrane for being -- Chapter 6. The body, nature and binaries -- Chapter 7. Learning To EEEM. Building an earth house -- Chapter 8. Searching for the Body?s Voice in an Industrialised, in a Fiat Economy -- Chapter 9. Creative Arteries, Arterioles and Capillaries -- Chapter 10. Dela. Confluences and alluvium. Sublimation -- Afterword. Superorganism collective and practicing mind in life. 330 $a?This book reveals the subtle, intrinsic power of creativity, not only in the arts, but as a vital force in how we sense, and make meaning. It reframes creativity as embodied, somatic, and material inquiry - alive in the generative interplay of theory and practice, and essential to transformation.? Dr Suzanne Osmond, Head of Academic Development and Research, NIDA (National Institute of Dramatic Art), Australia?In a world that so often slices us into silos, even within ourselves, this book is a timely offering. It is a living inquiry, where creative practice and deep theory entwine revealing a hopeful way of being. A gentle act of self-care and cultural repair.? Jon Adams, Distinguished Professor, School of Public Health, University of Technology Sydney, Australia ?Barbara Doran reveals how pragmatic creativity can challenge lazy assumptions and dangerous defaults, offering the art of living as a way to meet complexity with care and clarity.? Rodger Watson, Research Fellow in Innovation Strategy and Design Futures Specialist, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, UK This book distils thirty years of creative practice into a rigorous inquiry that bridges artmaking, somatic intelligence, and systems thinking. Rooted in the author?s concept of Embodied Matter Exploration (EME), it positions creativity as cultural metabolism, where material, memory, and body co-compose meaning. Each chapter unfolds around an artwork as theory, method, and intervention. Resisting fragmentation, the book integrates autoethnography, semiotics, and living systems thinking. Academic literature is treated as a dialogical companion. By participating in meaning making and interpretation, readers gain new perceptions of self, nature, and society, and develop critical reflections to challenge pressing issues such as social injustice, environmental sustainability, and technology?s shaping impacts. A thought-provoking read for those interested in systems theory, anthropology, health psychology, neuroscience, and ecology, this practice-led and autoethnographic work opens new paths to possibility studies and creative research. Barbara Doran is Course Director for the Creative Intelligence and Strategic Innovation program at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. 410 0$aPalgrave Advances in Possibility Studies,$x3091-258X 606 $aHuman body$xSocial aspects 606 $aEthnology 606 $aPerforming arts 606 $aTheater 606 $aCritical theory 606 $aCritical thinking 606 $aSociology of the Body 606 $aSociocultural Anthropology 606 $aPractice-as-Research 606 $aEthnography 606 $aCritical Theory 606 $aCritical Thinking 615 0$aHuman body$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aEthnology. 615 0$aPerforming arts. 615 0$aTheater. 615 0$aCritical theory. 615 0$aCritical thinking. 615 14$aSociology of the Body. 615 24$aSociocultural Anthropology. 615 24$aPractice-as-Research. 615 24$aEthnography. 615 24$aCritical Theory. 615 24$aCritical Thinking. 676 $a153.35 700 $aDoran$b Barbara$01865405 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bNTSM 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911047697303321 996 $aCreative Practice and Embodied Narratives$94472473 997 $aUNINA