Creative tourism, people and research: Potential of arts-based research methods to analyze creative personality and to frame creative tourism reality in Portugal, portrayed in CREATOUR documentary
Author
de Abreu Santos, Vanessa Ágata
Term
4. term
Education
Publication year
2020
Submitted on
2020-06-02
Pages
79
Abstract
Forskning og kreativitet hænger tæt sammen: Begge handler om at finde nye måder at løse problemer på og skabe viden, der kan bruges i samfundet. I feltet kreativ turisme anerkendes personen som vigtig, men selve mennesket bliver ofte ikke undersøgt grundigt. Denne afhandling flytter fokus til de mennesker, der portrætteres i CREATOUR-dokumentaren fra projektet "Development of Creative Tourism Destinations in Small Cities and Rural Areas" i Portugal. Den undersøger kreative evner, personlighedstræk og hvordan mennesker lærer kreative processer – både på individ- og samfundsniveau – samt præsenterer forskellige kognitive tilgange, der beskriver, hvordan kreativ tænkning fungerer. For at adressere igangværende udfordringer i CREATOUR med at afklare, hvad "kreativ turisme" er, og hvem der deltager i den i Portugal, foreslår afhandlingen en ny forskningsmetode, hvor teorier om kreativitet strukturerer alle faser af forskningsprocessen. Afhandlingen anvender en kunstbaseret forskningsmetode (arts-based research, ABR), som bruger kunstneriske praksisser både til at undersøge og formidle viden. Datagrundlaget omfatter CREATOUR-dokumentaren samt kvalitative data fra semistrukturerede interviews og spørgeskemaer med åbne spørgsmål. I analyse- og diskussionsdelen bruges ABR yderligere gennem en screenwriting-analyse og en serie YouTube-videocasts om kreativ turisme. Tilsammen fungerer disse kreative metoder både som input til at udvikle indsigt og som output til at dele den, med målet om en mere demokratisk og samarbejdsorienteret vidensproduktion om kreativ turisme og dens målgrupper.
Research and creativity are closely linked: both aim to find new ways to solve problems and produce knowledge that communities can use. In creative tourism, the person is recognized as important, yet often not examined in depth. This thesis shifts attention to the people portrayed in the CREATOUR documentary from the project "Development of Creative Tourism Destinations in Small Cities and Rural Areas" in Portugal. It explores creative abilities, personality traits, and how people learn creative processes—at both individual and societal levels—and outlines different cognitive approaches that describe how creative thinking works. To address ongoing challenges within CREATOUR in defining "creative tourism" and identifying who participates in it in Portugal, the thesis proposes a new methodology that uses creativity theory to structure every stage of the research process. It adopts an arts-based research (ABR) approach, which employs artistic practices to both investigate and communicate knowledge. The study draws on the CREATOUR documentary and qualitative data from semi-structured interviews and open-ended questionnaires. In the analysis and discussion, ABR is further applied through a screenwriting-style analysis and a series of YouTube videocasts about creative tourism. Together, these creative methods serve as both inputs for generating insight and outputs for sharing it, aiming for a more democratic and collaborative production of knowledge about creative tourism and its audiences.
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