Book review of "The New Spirit of Creativity: Work, Compromise, and the Art and Design University"
Bibliographic record
Abstract
a conveyor belt-like form on power lines.The attention to detail in the book's design, featuring artwork by Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University alumna Miyoshi Kondo and jacket design by Will Brown, foreshadows the originality and thought-provoking nature of the text.The New Spirit of Creativity is based on interviews, participant observation, policy and planning documents, and media from three Canadian art and design universities (Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University, and the Ontario College of Art and Design University).Liinamaa carefully considers how the precarious position of artistic work and even universities in general across Canada has impacted the practice, recognition, and awards of creativity and argues that "we are currently witness to a 'new spirit' of creativity, one that both converges with and diverges from key aspects of artistic creativity" (p.4).She has offered an impressive and original text on the understudied and poorly understood art and design university in Canada against a backdrop of the broader higher education institute in crisis.The book contains an introduction, seven chapters in two sections, and a conclusion.The first section, "Creativ-
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.024 | 0.010 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".