Research Digest: Everyday Creativity

This everyday creativity research digest summarises current evidence relating to the many and diverse creative and cultural activities that people do at home or in their communities.

Specifically, it explores the value of activities facilitated by amateur or voluntary groups in shared community spaces and self-initiated activity that takes place at home. This review does not cover everyday creativity facilitated by professional artists.

The review explores what we already know in this area, including the complex factors that might affect or enable people’s access to, or participation or inclusion in, everyday creative experiences.

It also identifies what we know about:

the effects of everyday creativity on community building

the motivations for engaging with everyday creativity

the impact of everyday creativity on individual and collective wellbeing.