Fostering creative engagement

Opening channels for creativity
Expanding new creative possibilities
Developing creative expression outlets

Description

Fostering creative engagement involves actively encouraging participation, idea generation, and collaboration to address challenges and unlock innovative solutions. This strategy mobilizes diverse perspectives, stimulates problem-solving, and overcomes stagnation by creating environments that value experimentation and open dialogue. Practical actions include facilitating workshops, supporting cross-disciplinary teams, and providing resources for creative expression, thereby remedying issues of disengagement, limited innovation, and resistance to change within organizations and communities.

Claim

Introduce the possibility that new social forms can be created, that this is an acceptable thing. This may seem rather obvious, but the idea that creativity – going off the beaten path and doing something new – is possible, is in itself a new idea to many people.

People need the freedom to pursue creativity, without their security threatened or their dignity impaired. (Amartya Sen)