9 Dimensions for evaluating how art and creative practice stimulate societal transformations

Summary

Twenty-six authors from the CreaTures project ask how to evaluate creative work that reaches “foundational myths, paradigms, and systems of meaning”. Counting attendees says little about how change happens, and art’s “ability to create unexpected outcomes” defeats pre-set targets. Their tool offers nine dimensions, from embodying to subverting, with questions, because “specific indicators did not turn out to be useful”.

Rationale

Like their tool, our prompts are questions, not “a check for ‘doing deep disposition work correctly’”. Their twenty projects point where our prompts do: towards embodied experience and reshaped relationships.