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How do people and institutions manage to bring their different perspectives into an effective and productive interplay? How can we overcome obstacles for the creative potentials of distributed perspectives? Traditionally, the perspectives of people and institutions are considered to be fixed and isolated points of view. In such a picture, the perspectives seem determined in advance by positions and persons seem trapped within their perspectival horizons. In contrast, the new approach of this volume’s contributions focuses on the simple but fundamental fact that people (in their perceiving, speaking, thinking, and acting) always already refer to fellow human beings and coordinate their own perspectives with those of other persons and institutions. The contributions of the present volume concentrate on the structures, mechanisms, and dynamics of the interplays of different perspectives of interacting, communicating, and cooperating persons and institutions. The volume focuses on how the creative potentials as well as the organizational effectiveness of distributed perspectives can be set free.

The Berlin Studies in Knowledge Research (BSKR) series aims to foster systematic research into the variety of forms of knowledge as well as to uncover aspects of their underlying unity. The conception of the discipline of epistemology it seeks to promote is a generous-one which encompasses a study of the full variety of forms, practices and dynamics of knowledge, as well as their mutually interacting points of contact and their respective mechanisms of interpenetration. It seeks thereby to bring about a reorientation of the discipline of epistemology, undoing artificial restrictions in its scope and achieving a greater appreciation of the heterogeneity of different forms of knowledge. The series BSKR is associated with the Innovationszentrum Wissensforschung (IZW) / Center for Knowledge Research at the TU Berlin, Germany.

Kreativität ist zu einem Schlüsselbegriff innerhalb der Wissenschaften, der Forschung, der Wirtschaft und der Medien aufgestiegen. Sie ist ein zentrales Thema der öffentlichen Diskussion und schwingt stets mit, wenn von Innovation, Fortschritt, Zukunft der Wissensgesellschaft, Genforschung, Bioethik, virtuellen Welten und künstlicher Intelligenz die Rede ist. Zugleich spielt Kreativität eine grundlegende Rolle sowohl in den sozialen, wissenschaftlichen und technischen Fähigkeiten und Kompetenzen des Menschen, wie auch in unserem alltäglichen Wahrnehmen, Sprechen, Denken und Handeln. Die Autoren dieses Bandes nehmen sich des Themas gezielt an, reflektieren die Formen, Praktiken und Dynamiken von Kreativität sowie deren Bedingungen und Voraussetzungen und heben die Logik von Kreativitätsprozessen ins Blickfeld.