Creative Social Policy

Creative social policy implies the effort to reform social policy in order to contribute to a collective emancipation and liberation of human creative potential. The notion of creative social policy is based on a key principle concerning human agency and the relationship between individual and community:

All human beings – not just established artists – have creative potential. This potential is expressed in individual ways throughout the life course and can include, for example, practicing one’s vocation.

Creative Social Policy project objectives:

• Enhance human creative potential by collaborating with civil society organizations to identify best practices and develop research-based policy recommendations.
• Strengthen social structures by addressing the needs emerging from practical work with creativity and vulnerability, ensuring they are better equipped to support these efforts. Creative social policy project also aims to empower small-scale social movements by investigating their role in ‘re-centering the social’ within their development activities and fostering broader societal impact.
• Change how the role of social policy is understood – Creative social policy could be the way to revitalize people’s belief and support of the welfare state.

Every human being is an artist, a freedom being, called to participate in transforming and reshaping the conditions, thinking and structures that shape and inform our lives.
― Joseph Beuys