Financed by funds from the SMWK preliminary research, the project will firstly and comprehensively analyze which specific creativity potentials are generated, segregated and used in rural areas in order to (alternatively) shape and promote local and regional developments. A theoretical and conceptual framework will be developed. On the other hand, the Upper Lusatia region will be used as an example to investigate the significance of history (historical experiences of creativity and innovation), generation (i.e. different numbers/demographic weight, locations, units, horizons of experience, ideas of creativity, interaction between generations) and gender (including gender-specific patterns of the generation and circulation of creativity) and how creativity potentials in the region can be better leveraged in political, administrative and civil society terms and incorporated into the social development (discussion). To this end, ideas for one or more specific practical projects are to be explored and evaluated (depending on the stage of development) as part of a transfer-oriented project package in cooperation with regional stakeholders (Görlitz district, ENO, BZOL).
The decisive scientific problems to be addressed are, on the one hand, the specifics of rural creativity potentials and creativity processes (in relation to urban ones) and, on the other hand, the question of whether and how the creativity dispositive that is central to today's youths and young adults (in relation to urban manifestations as a hegemonic project) can be developed and realized in peripheral, rural regions.
From an application-oriented and practical point of view, it is about the problem of recording, problematizing and promoting rural creativity potential as a specific and essential development resource.
Dr.
Julia Gabler
