ABSTRACT
This conclusion present some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book presents the idea of criticality and criticism across traditional discipline boundaries. It shows how criticality ebbs and flows between contrasting disciplinary and creative practices. The book suggests how methods of situated knowledge are applied across contrasting creative disciplines and cultures to reveal targeted social critiques of cultural production. It argues that refining and deeply developing a specialized expertise, but working less within the isolation of disciplinary silos, could result in an ability to respond more rapidly and productively to the world's most pressing problems. The book demonstrates the value of criticism and critical thinking and its emphasis in research in the creative disciplines and professional practice. It details how criticism is created by lay and professional critics alike, and how it is consumed by its audiences.
