Imaginative Interdependence: Imagination, Speculation and Aesthesis

• Published in: The international journal of art & design education Vol. 44; no. 2; pp. 313 - 327
• Main Author: Atkinson, Dennis
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.05.2025
• Subjects: aesthesis; Art education; cosmos; Imagination; interdependence; speculation

This paper addresses the importance of creativity, speculative imagination and the production of novelty in pedagogic practices in art education and art practice. These terms refer to always incomplete assemblages or agencements of experiencing. Whitehead's ideas on imagination, speculation and...