Being and Creative Consciousness
Year: 2015
Editor: Amaresh Chakrabarti, Toshiharu Taura and Yukari Nagai
Author: Brewis, J.
Institution: Surface Design Department, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town, South Africa
Section: Brief Podium Papers
Page(s): 270-277
ISBN: 978-1-904670-60-5
Abstract
This article is a narrative inquiry into how personal meaning is made through the experience of a creative process during a six months sabbatical leave. The article’s intent is to interrogate the nature of creative experience as realized in a phenomenological description through artwork, generated by lived experience. This ontological approach is highlighted to reflect a way of making, producing and a way of being. Because the world we live in is revealed to us through our senses in everyday life, it seems already familiar and we often fail to reflect on what we are aware of in terms of our human reality or mode of being that will allow us to participate in an integration of knowing-acting-being. Higher education continually seeks to educate according to contemporary
values rather than develop intrinsic capabilities of students to enable them to be creative.
Keywords: Creative, experience, ontological.