Transforming Academia: Creativity and Transdisciplinarity

An online conversation hosted by the Transformative Studies Ph.D. program.

Where is creativity in academia? What does it mean to do creative work in academia? What if academic inquiry were framed as a creative process and went beyond the confines of a single discipline but instead drew on all knowledge that is relevant to our specific inquiries? We’ll look at how creativity has historically been marginalized and why we’re making it come back.

Host Bio

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Alfonso Montuori is Professor in the Transformative Inquiry Department at California Institute of Integral Studies. An Italian citizen, Alfonso grew up in living in the Netherlands, Lebanon, Greece, and England and settled in the United States in the mid-1980s. He has been Distinguished Visiting Professor in the School of Fine Arts at Miami University in Oxford Ohio, and Distinguished Visiting Professor in Psychology at the University of Rome. In 1985-1986 he taught at the Central South University in Hunan, China. He is the author of several books and numerous articles on creativity, the future, leadership, culture, complexity, and education, including Creators on Creating, Social Creativity, and the Routledge Handbook for Creative Futures. He is the co-editor of World Futures: The Journal of New Paradigm Research, and on the editorial board of several journals. An active performer on saxophones, flute and electronic wind instruments, he lives in San Francisco with his wife, award-winning jazz singer Kitty Margolis, with whom he performs and records.

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Department of Transformative Inquiry