Creativity-Centered Design from an Ecologically Grounded Perspective: Activities and Resources in Palafito 1.0

Part 1: Ubimus Methodological Proposals

Since 2007, our research group has been engaged in a multidisciplinary effort to investigate the creative potential of converging forms of social interaction, mobile and distributed technologies, and materially grounded artistic practices. We have proposed to adopt of the term ubiquitous music (ubimus) to define practices that empower participants of musical experiences through socially oriented, creativity-enhancing tools (Keller et al., 2011a; Keller et al., 2014b). Ubiquitous music is defined as a research field that deals with distributed systems of human agents and material resources that afford musical activities through sustainable creativity support infrastructure. This consensual definition, established through collaborative work within our community of practice, summarizes the research efforts of three distinct but complementary methodological approaches to the study of ubimus phenomena: (1) the dialogical view, (2) the computational perspective and (3) the ecologically grounded framework.