ABSTRACT
Sociocultural approaches to creativity study this phenomenon in a relational and contextual manner, not “inside the mind,” but “in-between” people, objects, and places and across time. The focus of these approaches is, at once, on the psychological, social, and material aspects of creativity. A framework like the 5 A model offers a structural view of creativity as emerging out of a system of actors, audiences, actions, artifacts, and affordances. The more recent perspective–affordance theory (PAT) – argues that the creative process requires developing new perspectives on the world in interaction with other people and through the use of physical tools and their often surprising properties.
