9 Dimensions for Evaluating How Art and Creative Practice Stimulate Societal Transformations

“There is an urgent need to engage with deep leverage points in sustainability transformations – fundamental myths, paradigms, and systems of meaning making – to open new collective horizons for action. Art and creative practice are uniquely suited to help facilitate change in these deeper transformational leverage points. However, understandings of how creative practices contribute to sustainability transformations are lacking in practice and fragmented across theory and research”. The paper presents the ‘9 Dimensions Tool’, which “consists of three categories of change, and nine dimensions: changing meanings (embodying, learning, and imagining); changing connections (caring, organising, and inspiring); and changing power (co-creating, empowering, and subverting).” Includes analysis of its practical application across 20 projects.