We need motivation in the face of imminent systemic transformation of the buyer’s market for creative work. We need motivation in the face of replacement, redundancy, or reduction.
Humanity has available to it more than just one knowledge system, for ex. Indigenous, local, traditional ways of knowing; embodied and experiential ways of knowing (practical hands skills, kinaesthetic learning and spatial intelligence; muscle memory and intuitive perception, et cetera). Generative AI tools are advances in technology, science, computing et al., in the service of artificial knowledge processing and creation.
Humans can use the same approach to future proof themselves – by diving into alternate ways of human knowing, doing, and making thereby expanding their own ways of thinking beyond the currently dominant “scientific mode” or “western knowledge system” and its well documented limitations.
The beautiful part of the nature of human creativity is that each creative practitioner has their own skills and talents. If there’s any group of people who are already well prepared to embrace and enhance their different ways of understanding the world around them, of generating knowledge and meaning, and of communicating and sharing it, it is the artist and the writer and painter or the maker.
Industrial designers already weave together different ways of knowing when they build a physical prototype to test their ideas – the very act of building is knowledge creation in action.
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We can have an ‘ecology of knowledges’ to use Coolsaet’s phrase and then we’re not sitting ducks in a single knowledge system watching the technological tsunami wash our shoreline away. In order to achieve this, we must embrace the principles of cognitive justice and expand our awareness – as human creatives – outside the box defined and described by western science and the protocols of its knowledge creation and dissemination mechanism.
