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

“日常创造力”（EC）的特征是日常行动，可以从小的和迷你的“c”创造力的角度来理解;前者侧重于可观察到的创造性行动/产品，后者侧重于更短暂的“解释性和变革性方面”思想”（Silvia等人，2017）。电子商务的界限远远超出了艺术，延伸到数百万人在家中，在线和社区中单独和团体参与的各种沉浸式创意活动。这些活动包括烹饪、手工艺、园艺、播客和公民科学。这些活动往往与既定的等级制度、经济模式和卓越概念无关，但在使人们能够探索其创造潜力、保持健康/福祉、与他人和自然联系、学习/发展以及发现意义/目的方面发挥着至关重要的作用。随着人们朝着幸福经济（APPG，2022）的方向迈出步伐，这些日常创造性活动变得越来越重要。拟议的网络追求的研究议程，开发和支持这种日益增长的重要性的理解，促进EC的展开，扩大和民主化。这是一个修复性发现的过程，以回应Jarman（1993）所说的“全世界都应该分享的日常创造力的盗窃”。“自沃里克文化价值未来委员会（2015年）和AHRC文化价值项目（2016年）提出文化生态或生态系统概念以来，人们越来越关注EC与专业，补贴和商业文化和艺术一起发挥的补充作用。Eg.英格兰艺术理事会的2020-2030年“让我们创造”战略着眼于“全国各地的创造力的蓬勃发展”，认为“用各种各样的花朵填补未来的最可靠的方法是认识到我们都可以成为园丁”。这意味着什么，以及如何在实践中实现这一目标，仍然有些不清楚。EC的定义是有争议的，对于如何在不同的社会文化背景下制定/理解这一点几乎没有共识（Villanova &库尼亚，2020）。此外，正如AHRC文化价值项目主任Crossick在网络合作伙伴Creative Lives（2021）组织的一次活动中所说：“我们做得太少，无法理解是什么让生态系统发挥作用。它已经成为我们谈论的一个口号，而不是我们可以真正证明其中联系的东西。“为回应上述问题，拟议的网络将在四个指导主题下处理有关电子商务的定义、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. EC，家庭和场所建设（包括大流行应对）3。EC，健康和福祉4。艺术，科学和技术在EC接口通过这些主题，我们寻求促进对EC的理解，并使未来的研究路径被划定，同时有助于政策辩论。资助期间将使来自人文，艺术，社会科学和自然科学的研究人员与创造性的实践者走到一起，社区团体和其他主要利益相关者通过在英国各地的4个参与式沙坑活动和最后的总结会议与国际影响。核心网络参与者包括戴金（UWE荣誉教授）;曼斯菲尔德（布鲁内尔大学副院长研究）;孔特拉（牛津大学生物物理学教授）;库尔特（国家创意健康中心主任）;和辛普森（创意生活首席执行官）。该小组将合作编制产出，包括编辑的一卷、政策文件和在线文章。在资助期结束后，我们将通过在英国和国际上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背景下，制定一项关注EC民主化的后续出价。

'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.