This paper argues that we need to challenge transcendent modes of evaluating creative practices in geography, both in order to question dominant ways of thinking about creativity and to cultivate a broader playing field on which to transform concepts and practices of aesthetics. This is important because the intervention of creative research must be coupled with a framework that can amplify it and make it count thereafter, or we risk returning to a familiar conceptual apparatus over the greater challenge of developing how creative practices make us think differently. In doing so, the paper presents five propositions for immanent evaluation elaborated through Gilles Deleuze, which are crucial for exploring a plurality of ‘aesthetic justifications’. Empirically, the paper draws on an exhibition entitled Sounding the City, which the author curated in Bristol, UK, in August 2014. The aim is not to explore the politics of curation, but to experiment with a mode of presenting research that supports the propositions for evaluation staged in the paper.

本文认为，我们需要挑战评估地理学创造性实践的超越模式，既要质疑关于创造力的主导思维方式，又要培养一个更广泛的竞争环境，以改变美学的概念和实践。这很重要，因为创造性研究的干预必须与一个可以放大它并使其发挥作用的框架相结合，否则我们冒着回到熟悉的概念装置的风险，以应对发展创造性实践如何使我们以不同方式思考的更大挑战。为此，本文提出了通过吉尔·德勒兹 (Gilles Deleuze) 阐述的内在评价的五个命题，这些命题对于探索多种“审美理由”至关重要。从经验上讲，这篇论文借鉴了一个名为Sounding the City的展览，作者于 2014 年 8 月在英国布里斯托尔策划。其目的不是探索策展的政治，而是尝试一种展示研究的模式，以支持论文中提出的评估命题。