Creative Liminality and Unknowns: Stepping through transdisciplinary portals to transform the world and oneself

Professor Bem Le Hunte, Director of Teaching and Learning, Founding Course Director, Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation (BCII)

When learners become creators of new knowledge rather than consumers of old knowledge they have stepped through a portal of unknowns into open fields of discovery. And the most powerful zone of discovery that reveals itself through this process is the self. Transdisciplinary practice is inherently creative, because it explores the confluences of knowledge that lie between, beyond and across all our disciplines. It is unknown territory, because every time we seek to combine new knowledges, we discover more ways to do so. With a field of oceanic knowledge to inspire creative solutions, we have to focus on the knower (who remains consistent through this learning) rather than the kaleidoscopic fields of transdisciplinary knowledge that constantly change. We have to focus on the self. This interactive keynote focuses on the creative power of unknowns to transform the self, as well as the world around us. It considers unknowns as thresholds – the great enablers and obstacles of every process of discovery, every discipline and every human endeavour that we have encountered since the beginning of our time.