Lena Vogl

• Master of Arts
• Research Assistant at University of Bamberg

Image- and text-creating generative Artificial Intelligences (AIs) such as Dall-E 2 and ChatGPT. make creative work with AI accessible to a broad mass. Thus, the question of authorship also raises the question of perceived creative output. Who has contributed how much to the work according to self-perception and the perception of others? How creati...

Fechner’s approach to empirical aesthetics comprises two sides: the idea of aesthetics from below and the aesthetic association principle (Fechner, 1866; Ortlieb et.al., 2020). Empirical research on design with its strong focus on objects and their features primarily relates to aesthetics from below. With the present work, we explicitly include the...

This research examined the impact of the Master’s program ZukunftsDesign on student creativity. The subjective and objective creativity of 42 students were evaluated by means of an online questionnaire and external personality assessment. Findings confirmed the direct link between subjective and objective creativity. The study also revealed promisi...

The purpose of the paper is to explore the individual perceived creative self-efficacy as an effect of creativity methods, which target vividness, within the context of teaching innovation processes in higher education as well as in business context tested in the field. The three creativity methods which are investigated, are concepts and prototype...

In 2019 the Coburg University of Applied Sciences offered the course “consume less, create more” to an interdisciplinary group of master students. The course offered a theoretical part including topics like sustainability, maker culture and upcycling as well as a practical part. The practical part was carried out through different project teams usi...

This paper takes a look at why people enjoy listening to dreadful and frightening music. The experience of listening to Black Metal is reconstructed with Immanuel Kant’s notion of the Sublime and in contrast to classical music. The paper states that the feeling of Sublimity afforded by Black Metal differs from that of classical music by the first’s...

Purpose: To showcase the concept and prototype of a creativity method developed for innovation processes in teaching as well as for business context tested in the field. The example of ‚Association Memory‘ is intended to investigate how individual methods could be composed based on a toolbox of key ideas of design. Design/methodology/approach: Th...