KREYON 2017: Unfolding the dynamics of creativity and innovation Palazzo delle Esposizioni (http://english.palazzoesposizioni.it/Home.aspx) Rome, Italy, September 6-9, 2017

The aim of the KREYON conference 2017 is to gather scientists from many different disciplines (physics, mathematics, computer science, biology, social sciences, arts, etc.) to address fundamental questions about how people express their creativity and innovate both at the individual and collective levels.

Context

Innovations are key factors in the evolution of human societies, since they represent the primary motor to explore new solutions in ever-changing and unpredictable environments. New technological artefacts, scientific discoveries, new social and cultural structures, are very often triggered by mutated external conditions. The detailed mechanisms through which humans and societies express their creativity and innovate are largely unknown but in the last few years a few attempts have been done to establish a comprehensive mathematical framework. Creative solutions, novelties and innovation share an important feature: often, innovative events do not happen by chance, rather they seem to be triggered by some previous novelty or innovation. In studies of biological, technological, and cultural evolution, it has been hypothesized that one innovation can lay the groundwork for another by creating fresh opportunities. In our daily lives, a similar process may account for why one new thing so often leads to another. This idea has been beautifully summarized by the notion of adjacent possible introduced by Stuart Kauffman. In this picture the advance into the adjacent possible is the driving force for correlating innovative events, and novelties are produced through an exploration of a space – physical, conceptual, technological or biological – that enlarges itself whenever one reaches a point of the space never touched before. The Conference will represent the opportunity to assess where we stand by investigating the determinants of innovation processes and their evolution, progressing in their mathematical modelling, understanding their function and identifying the most thriving contexts (institutions, social organizations, business models, etc.) for creativity and innovation.

Submission Guidelines

The following categories of contributions are welcome:

• Abstracts for oral presentations (max 1 page including figures and references)
• Abstracts for Posters (max 1 page including figures and references)

List of Topics

• All themes, methods and tools to address the themes of the conference from the perspective of many different disciplines (physics, mathematics, computer science, biology, social sciences, arts, etc.). Proposals for interactive installations will also be considered.

Committees

Chairs

• Vittorio Loreto (Sapienza Univ. of Rome, Italy) 
• Vito D.P. Servedio (Complexity Science Hub, Vienna, Austria)
• Francesca Tria (Sapienza Univ. of Rome, Italy)

Organizing Committee

• Cesare Bianchi (Sapienza Univ. of Rome, Italy)
• Indaco Biazzo (Sapienza Univ. of Rome, Italy)
• Elisabetta Falivene (Sapienza Univ. of Rome, Italy)
• Pietro Gravino (Sapienza Univ. of Rome, Italy)
• Fernanda Lupinacci (Sapienza Univ. of Rome, Italy)
• Bernardo Monechi (ISI Foundation, Turin, Italy)

Program Committee

• Indaco Biazzo (Sapienza Univ. of Rome, Italy)
• Ilan Chabay (Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam, Germany)
• Pietro Gravino (Sapienza Univ. of Rome, Italy)
• Vittorio Loreto (Sapienza Univ. of Rome, Italy)
• Bernardo Monechi (ISI Foundation, Turin, Italy)
• Francois Pachet (SONY Computer Science Lab, Paris, France)
• Andreas Roepstorff (Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark)
• Vito D.P. Servedio (Complexity Science Hub, Vienna, Austria)
• Luc Steels (ICREA, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain)
• Stefan Thurner (Complexity Science Hub, Vienna, Austria)
• Francesca Tria (Sapienza Univ. of Rome, Italy)

Venue

The conference will be held in Rome from 6th to 9th of September 2017 at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni, and will feature three days (6-7-8) devoted to scientific discussions and one open day (saturday the 9th) with conferences aimed for the general public.

Contact

All questions concerning submissions should be emailed to kreyonproject@gmail.com