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摘要

When we started planning the first Creativity & Cognition conference around thirteen years ago, we never imagined that the series would still be running in 2005. A single meeting that brought together artists, designers, cognitive scientists, computer scientists for a dialogue about creativity seemed daring enough to do once only, but it turned out that each time we held the meeting those who took part wanted more. Well, here it is: more Creativity & Cognition.Geographically, the Conference has slipped south a little, from Loughborough University in the English Midlands, to Goldsmiths College in London. Goldsmiths provides a very appropriate location for the 2005 conference. The Ben Pimlott, a new building designed by Will Alsop, houses the Centre for Cognition, Computation and Culture and the Goldsmiths Digital Studios under the guidance of Janis Jefferies and Robert Zimmer who are Conference Co-Programme Chair and Local Chair respectively. The new Centre is an innovative multi-disciplinarycollaboration between several departments and draws together work in the Cognitive Neuroscience unit and the Goldsmiths Digital Studios, as well as related research areas elsewhere in the College.There are other changes too. The Programme is now organized into three streams, each with a co-chair. One stream represents the central, scientific and technology oriented work on creativity that we have always encouraged. A second expands our direct coverage of creative art practice, and includes an enhanced exhibition component. The third stream addresses history in this area and, although we have had papers, and invited presentations, on history before, this year it plays a welcome enlarged part of the proceedings. It is appropriate that the Programme team have space in this introduction to comment on the contributions that they have put so much into shaping and selecting.