Arne CARLSEN, Stewart CLEGG & Reidar GJERSVIK (2012) Idea Work: Lessons of the Extraordinary in Everyday Creativity. Oslo: Cappelen Damm.

Abstract

This inspiring book is one of a number of contributions emerging from a fouryear, large-scale empirical project co-sponsored by the Norwegian Research Council and led by a group of researchers at SINTEF, the largest independent research organisation in Scandinavia with some 2100 employees. The Idea Work project sets out to investigate creativity as a concrete, collective, and everyday form of practice, inherent in daily work. Its focus on the collective aspects and culturally embedded practices of creativity contrasts with the many contributions that glorify the distinctive characteristics of creative individuals, and with the how-to manuals that offer to nurture and unleash one’s own individual creative potential.