Paper Title
An Art-Based Study on The Meaning-Making of ‘Creativity’ Experienced By Korean University Students
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to explore the meaning-making of creativity among students who participated in
university liberal arts classes related to creativity at University D in Busan, S. Korea. The study used art-based research
methods to analyze visualized artworks such as photographs and images expressed by a total of 87 college students and their
interpretations. The meaning-making of creativity examined on the basis of on art was as follows. First, the meaning of
‘creativity inherent in human instinct’ was created. It has sub-topics of purposeful creativity for survival, altruistic creativity
for others, and experiential creativity as the totality of life. Second, the meaning of ‘creativity expressed through various
channels’ was created. This has as sub-topics a flash of radical creativity, gradual creativity that becoming slowly, network
creativity through promiscuous encounters. Third, its meaning was ‘creativity of complex chaosmos’, which has as a subtheme
the meaning of (un)predictable creativity, creativity produced by traversing nothingness and existence, and the
meaning of (dis)ordered potential energy. This study was meaningful in that it looks at the essential meaning of creativity
from aesthetic and generative aspects.
Keywords - Creativity, Meaning-Making, Art-Based Research, Post-Qualitative Research