Concept of co-creation is here expressed as the method to summon the outside or the window = device = ceremony = “expression” toward the outside which cannot be perceived but can be felt. “Myself” can be neither vanished nor invalidated, which reveals expression. In this sense, myself intrinsically exists in expression, and is simultaneously deconstructed since it cannot be presumed. Semiotics of co-creation = cultivation of expression never appears till one can comprehend summoning the outside.

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An attempt was made to reconsider “Uneri (swell-like flow)” that emerges from “something” which goes beyond perceptions and sensations in the “expressing bodies” of the facilitators at a workshop of bodily expressions aiming for co-creation. In particular, the bare scenery aired for facilitation at the workshop was illustrated in words as the “scenery in the mind” of the facilitators, and consideration was carried out by comparing it with “Uneri” found in disquisitions related to creative activities of people and expression works. At the same time, several people drew images of the words which had been illustrated, and considerations was deepened as each of them exchanged awareness on “Uneri” that is immanent in the scenery of the workshop. As a result, layers of manifold “cloth” expressed in illustrations of words overlap in multitier, and it was indicated that the scenery of the cloth fluttering dynamically has an important meaning in co-creation.

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In this paper, we reveal the dynamics of co-creation expression from a practical, theoretical, and system-technological viewpoint by using “hand-contact expression” as a clue. First, from a practical viewpoint we claim that the body in expression prompts exchanges between his/her inner self and outer world and cultivates a person’s relationship with others. Second, we clarify the features of the expressions that facilitators create with each other by measuring the dynamical information of their hand-contact expression. Third, we discuss “Uneri (swell-like flow)” that emerges in the facilitator’s body in expression based on the psychophysical model (Aizawa model). Furthermore, we show the system design of the “virtual others” that focuses on the duality of the body in expression. Finally, we put forward a new proposal to call the effect of promoting co-creation expression as facilitation arts.

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Participatory arts, which engage public participation in the creative process, are often called “cocreation” in Japan and considered to be empowering. However, cocreation takes different forms of collaboration. This article reconsiders the models and processes of creativity in participatory arts and aims to explore the relationships between creativity and empowerment, focusing on the concepts of “generative creation” and “retelling.” As a result, the article suggests that creativity and empowerment coexist when creation occurs through a “generatively created” method that maximizes the potential of each participant and produces “retelling.”

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This paper raises a concept “empathic second-person relationship” as a key to exploring phenomena of co-creation. That relationship does not just occur between a person and another, but also between a person and a thing/event. We argue that a person frequently obtains a feeling of “empathic second-person relationship”, when he or she has encountered a thing/event for the first time. Supposing that “empathic second-person relationship” lies in phenomena of co-creation, the conventional scientific method, i.e. objective observation, does not suffice for examinations of co-creation. Regardless of whether the object is a human being or a thing/event, describing the relation between the self and the surrounding world, using the method of studying on/with first-person’s perspective, may be a good starting point. By doing that, it will become possible to encounter, and thus study, the very phenomenon that empathic second-person relationship comes to appear.

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In this paper, we analyzed the transition of the business concept and the utterances of the members in the process of creating a new business and examined what co-creation is. In the creation of new business, various dramas such as shipping to hope, frustration, recurrence are developed. Especially in the setbacks, the subjectless world appears in the primitive state of the adjective. A transcendental verb is set up through a subjectless world, and the drama turns into a recurrence. As in the threelegged race, the transcendental axis is created from the subject axis and subjectless axis. The transcendental axis functions as a transcendental verb, propagates to other members and subsumes the members and dramas of creating a new business. It is thought that the three axes of the subject axis, the subjectless axis, and the transcendental axis act cyclically and promote co-creative drama.

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This paper has analyzed a conversational phenomenon whereby two speakers improvise one storyline through repeating, overlapping, and taking over each other’s utterances while entraining each other’s head nodding rhythms. This phenomenon can be seen as a form of co-creative communication, that is, a dynamic process in which the here-and-now of drama is co-created by the speakers, who are tied together by shared body rhythms. This process is driven by the speakers’ continual attempts to fill incessantly emerging gaps between them that are caused by each speaker’s coherence, attributable to their identical roles in the conversation.

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