<nettime-ann> RFP: Funding Opportunities from the National Science Foundation CreativeIT Program

[Mason Dixon <mason@artafternext.com>]

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> Funding Opportunities from the National Science Foundation CreativeIT
> Program
>
> http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=501096&org=CISE&from=home
> DUE DATE
>
> Full Proposal Deadline Date:  October 13, 2009
> I. INTRODUCTION
>
> Creativity, design, and research all contribute new knowledge and  
> artifacts.
> The CreativeIT program focuses on the commonality of these three  
> processes
> and solicits proposals that bring creative practice and creativity  
> research
> to play a role in transformative research in specific contexts of  
> computer
> science, cognitive science, information technology, education,  
> engineering
> design and science. The program considers design as a type of  
> research in
> which the definition of the problem may change in response to the
> exploration and development of alternative solutions, leading to  
> creative
> solutions and innovation. The program's objective is to bring together
> different disciplines associated with creative and scientific  
> advances in a
> way that is mutually beneficial. This program encourages new ways of
> thinking about one discipline in terms of another, so that the
> interdisciplinary nature of the project is a means to an end rather  
> than an
> end in itself.
> II. PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
>
> Information technology is playing an increasing role in extending the
> capability of human creative thinking and problem solving, and  
> conversely,
> creative uses of information technology are leading to new areas of  
> research
> and innovation. Creativity is often the result of a design process  
> in which
> the exploration of possible designs changes our perspective on what  
> the
> design can or should achieve. A designer develops new artifacts in the
> context of a perceived need or problem specification. In creative  
> design,
> the reflection on problem finding becomes as important as problem  
> solving.
> The combination of creativity and design thinking in information  
> technology,
> science, and engineering has the potential to define new areas and  
> lead to
> increased successful innovation. *Advances:* CreativeIT seeks  
> proposals for
> projects whose objectives are new models of creativity, new models for
> research and education, or creativity enhancing tools developed in the
> context of a specific discipline.
>
> *Research Areas: *The following research areas elaborate on these  
> potential
> types of advances as guidelines for describing how the objectives of  
> the
> project contribute to CreativeIT.
>
>   1. *Understanding Creative Cognition and Computation. *Research in  
> this
>   area develops or applies cognitive models that serve as  
> inspiration for
>   computational models of creativity, support for human creativity, or
>   approaches for educating people to be more creative. This research  
> is
>   typically done by adopting or adapting a model of cognition and  
> evaluating
>   its creative performance in different contexts, or developing a  
> new model of
>   creativity based on empirical or ethnographic studies. The  
> emphasis in this
>   area is the development of new models of cognition and computation  
> that
>   explain or simulate creativity and how these models open up new  
> research
>   areas in computing and cognitive science.
>   2. *Creativity to Stimulate Breakthroughs in Science and  
> Engineering. *This
>   area considers the role and performance of creative professionals in
>   developing new technologies, discovering new patterns in  
> information, and in
>   finding new ways of seeing, knowing, and doing computing, science  
> and
>   engineering. This area seeks to foster research that is conducted  
> with
>   groups of people from different backgrounds in which the creative  
> synergy is
>   focused on a specific context, problem, or perceived need. The  
> result of
>   this research is a new product, new model, or new area of  
> research. The
>   evaluation of the results of this kind of research does not follow  
> directly
>   from existing metrics or performance criteria and therefore may  
> need to
>   redefine relevant performance criteria.
>   3. *Educational Approaches that Encourage Creativity.* This area
>   considers a broad range of approaches to learning that encourages
>   creativity: multi-disciplinary teaching and learning, design studio
>   environments, skills development through making and doing, serious  
> games,
>   and open-ended problem-based learning. This area includes the  
> development
>   and evaluation of innovative computational environments for  
> learning that
>   reward creativity leading to transformative changes in curriculum  
> objectives
>   and structure.
>   4. *Supporting Creativity with Information Technology. *This area
>   develops new software and interaction design to support people in  
> being more
>   creative and evaluates their performance through user studies  
> either in
>   controlled environments with empirical studies or in the context  
> of a
>   complex problem or situation with ethnographic studies. The  
> emphasis in this
>   area is the development of new computing environments where the  
> environment
>   itself may be a creative product, and the environment is intended  
> to support
>   people in their creative activities.

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