(…) The problems of the 21st Century are inherently complex and require the creative contributions of multiple stakeholders to solve them.
… Therefore, new approaches that account for the complexity of human interaction and collaboration need to be developed to better understand what creativity is and how it can emerge from synergy between people who are very different from each other.
… The proposed research framework emphasises three important points of attention when studying creative collaboration: temporal patterns, social mechanisms, and meanings and communication. 

… human creativity is a process of symbolic exchange and meaning-making. The acknowledgement of the constructive communicative nature of the creative process helps individuals involved in a creative collaborative process understand how different interpretative frames can contribute to a creative process, which stand in contrast to the information transmission-based understanding of communication and knowledge building. ->SEE CONVERSATIONS AFTER COLLAB PROCESS, JOINT CRITICAL REFLECTION, POST EXQUISITE CORPSE VIEWING CHAT

The notion of a meaning is important in two ways. First, when acknowledging a worldview according to which individuals make subjective interpretations and learn about their social environment, it follows that all discussions and behaviours derive from a combination of cultural and subjective knowledge. This has clear consequences for the adopted research strategy, in the sense that individual interpretations become an important research object. 

Creativity is actually a form of interpretation or sense-making in itself (e.g. Drazin, et al. 1999). For example,
Runco (2007) has suggested an interpretative view of creativity, in which he defines creativity as the ability to construct original interpretations of experiences, that is, to create new knowledge in the construction of an understanding. -> VIEWING CHAT / FOCUS GROUP

(…) According to Weick, (1995), the process of sense-making is actually not about finding the right explanation in terms of its objective accuracy as much as it is about finding a good and plausible narrative to hold the elements of the story together in order to guide action and engage others to contribute to sense-making.

(…) Creativity can be seen as an interpretative process of trying to make sense of different situations and coming up with novel ways to reframe a situation. -> VIEWING CHAT / FOCUS GROUP

(…) Creativity was defined first from an interpretive perspective as the (interpretative) process of trying to make sense of different situations and come up with novel ways to reframe a situation. When this definition is placed in a social context, it is about communication and the novel frames that make a discussion creative. In this way, a creative social situation becomes a negotiation of novelty, how things can be seen in novel, surprising, and appropriate ways together – to use the classical defining attributes of creativity.

(…) However, the subjectivity of each participant’s interpretation of the situation can be a driver of creativity; through dialogue people challenge each other to imagine the points of view of others, and, through this process, generate yet more interpretations of the situation at hand in iterative manner. This interactive cycle of interpretations boosts creativity. 

From: 
Poutanen P., 2016, Complexity and collaboration in creative group work