The Everyday Creativity Network: Developing Understandings, Methods and Applications Across Boundaries

“日常创造力”（EC）的特点是日常的行为，以“小”和“迷你”创造力来理解；前者侧重于可观察的创造性行为/产品，后者侧重于更短暂的“思想的解释和变革方面”（Silvia et al, 2017）。电子商务的界限远远超出了艺术的范围，涉及到各种各样的沉浸式创意活动，数百万人在家里、网上和社区中以个人或团体的形式参与这些活动。这些活动包括烹饪、手工艺、园艺、播客和公民科学。这些活动往往脱离了既定的等级制度、经济模式和卓越的概念，但在使人们能够探索自己的创造潜力、保持健康/福祉、与他人和自然联系、学习/发展和发现意义/目的方面发挥着至关重要的作用。随着迈向幸福经济的步伐（APPG, 2022），这些日常创意活动变得越来越重要。拟议的网络追求一项研究议程，以发展和支持对这一日益增长的重要性的理解，促进欧共体的展开、扩大和民主化。这是一个修复性发现的过程，以回应贾曼（1993）所说的“整个世界应该分享的日常创造力的盗窃”。自从沃里克文化价值未来委员会（2015年）和AHRC文化价值项目（2016年）框架下的文化生态或生态系统概念出现以来，人们越来越关注欧共体与专业、补贴和商业文化艺术的互补作用。如。英格兰艺术委员会的2020-2030年“让我们创造”战略着眼于“全国各地的创造力之花”，认为“让未来充满各种鲜花的最可靠方法是认识到我们都可以成为园丁”。这意味着什么，或者如何在实践中实现，目前还不太清楚。欧共体的定义存在争议，对于如何在不同的社会文化背景下制定/理解欧共体，几乎没有达成共识（Villanova & Cunha, 2020）。此外，正如人权委员会文化价值项目主任克罗斯克在网络合作伙伴创意生活（2021）组织的一次活动中所说：“我们在理解生态系统运作的原因方面做得太少了。它变成了我们谈论的口号，而不是我们能够真正证明其中联系的东西。“根据上述建议，拟议的网络将根据四个指导主题，处理有关欧共体的定义、范围、程序、评估和影响的问题：电子商务在丰富创造性研究方法中的作用2 .居家和场所营造（包括大流行应对）EC，健康和福利。通过这些主题，我们寻求推进对EC的理解，并使未来的研究路径得以勾画，同时为政策辩论做出贡献。在资助期内，来自人文、艺术、社会科学和自然科学领域的研究人员将通过英国各地的4次参与性沙坑活动和具有国际影响力的最终闭幕会议，与创意从业者、社区团体和其他关键利益相关者齐聚一堂。核心网络参与者包括Daykin （UWE名誉教授）；曼斯菲尔德（布鲁内尔大学研究副院长）；牛津大学生物物理学教授；库尔特（国家创造性健康中心主任）；辛普森（首席执行官创意生活）。该小组将合作制作包括编辑卷、政策文件和在线文章在内的产出。在资助期之后，我们将通过在英国和国际范围内建立更广泛的研究伙伴关系和相关政策影响来巩固和扩大网络，并在考虑到非殖民化的更全球化背景下发展关注欧共体民主化的后续竞标。

'Everyday creativity' (EC) is characterised by day-to-day actions understood in terms of little and mini 'c' creativity; the former focusing on observable creative actions/products, the latter on more fleeting "interpretive and transformative aspects of thought" (Silvia et al, 2017). The boundaries of EC stretch well beyond the arts to a diverse range of immersive creative activities that millions of people engage in individually and in groups, at home, online and in the community. These include activities such as cooking, crafting, gardening, podcasting and citizen science. Such activities are often removed from established hierarchies, economic models and notions of excellence, but play a vital role in enabling people to explore their creative potential, maintain health/wellbeing, connect to others and to nature, learn/develop, and discover meaning/purpose. As steps are taken towards a wellbeing economy (APPG, 2022), these everyday creative activities become increasingly important. The proposed network pursues a research agenda that develops and supports understandings of this growing importance, facilitating the unfolding, broadening and democratisation of EC. This is a process of reparative discovery in response to what Jarman (1993) calls "the theft of everyday creativity which the entire world should share." Since the emergence of the concept of a cultural ecology or ecosystem framed by the Warwick Commission on the Future of Cultural Value (2015) and the AHRC's Cultural Value Project (2016), there has been an increasing focus on the complementary role that EC plays alongside professional, subsidised and commercial culture and the arts. Eg. Arts Council England's 2020-2030 'Let's Create' strategy looks towards "a blossoming of creativity across the country," arguing that "the surest way to fill the future with every variety of flower is to recognise that we can all be gardeners". What this means or how it can be achieved in practice remains somewhat unclear. Definitions of EC are contested, with little consensus as to how this is enacted/understood in different socio-cultural contexts (Villanova & Cunha, 2020). Further, as Crossick, Director of the AHRC's Cultural Value Project, said at an event organised by Network partner Creative Lives (2021): "We do far too little to understand what makes that ecosystem work. It's become a slogan we talk about, rather than something we can really evidence the connections within."Responding to the above, the proposed network will address issues around the definitions, scope, processes, assessment and impacts of EC, under 4 guiding themes:1. The role of EC in enriching creative research methods2. EC, the home and placemaking (including pandemic responses)3. EC, health and wellbeing4. Arts, science and technology interfaces in ECThrough these themes we seek to advance understandings of EC and enable future research pathways to be delineated, while contributing to policy debates.The funded period will enable researchers from across the humanities, arts, social sciences and natural sciences to come together with creative practitioners, community groups and other key stakeholders through 4 participatory sandpit events across the UK and a final, concluding conference with international reach. Core network participants include Daykin (Prof Emerita UWE); Mansfield (Vice Dean Research Brunel University); Contera (Prof of Biological Physics Oxford University); Coulter (Director National Centre for Creative Health); and Simpson (Chief Executive Creative Lives). The group will collaborate to produce outputs including an edited volume, policy document and online articles. Following the funded period, we will consolidate and expand the network by forging wider research partnerships and associated policy impacts within the UK and internationally, and developing a follow-on bid focusing on the democratisation of EC in a more global context that takes account of decolonisation.