Introducing tools that evaluate transformative creative practices on the creator’s own terms, yet with rigour.
Connect to materials prepared for artists, funders, researchers and policy-makers with the desire to make radical shifts in meaning and cultures towards eco-social futures:
| CreaTures Framework – how to evaluate creative experiential work for transformative ends, while challenging evaluation practices: https://creaturesframework.org |
| CreaTures Project – a broader introduction to the project and the work of the arts partners who were co-researchers: https://creatures-eu.org/ |
| CreaTures cards, pictured above, summarise the key components: https://creatures-eu.org/CreaTures-workshop-cards-150×100-AW-crops-bleed07-2024.pdf |
| A low frequency, high-quality mailing list on the intersections of Art Tech Nature Culture (https://atnc.persona.co). |
Other Resources
Explore analysis of CreaTures and related work to learn how the politics of the more-than-human, the potential for cultural change and new materialist thinking came together in the design rationale:
Paper on CreaTures goals – creative practice as transformative, how?: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3450741.3465242
Long paper about Enacting Entanglement, using the design of CreaTures research as a case study and pointing to the contradictions that raises: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10606-024-09497-8
Chapter on intimacy and Furtherfield’s Treaty of Finsbury Park, a more-than-human role-play on inclusive governance for a London park: https://academic.oup.com/book/56377/chapter-abstract/448228173?redirectedFrom=fulltext (I can provide access)
An article linking Climate Care, the creative minds of CreaTures and thoughts on ‘Ecologies of Subversion’: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3501301 (I can provide access)
A short piece on the More-than-Human, ‘Affective Prefiguration’ and the dual benefits of evoking other worlds: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3599956
A paper that draws distinctions between Sensitisation vs Representation in creating participatory work to promote More-than-Human/ecological flourishing: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3661455.3669862
An foundational paper on Participating in More-than-Human worlds: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3385010.3385016
Description of the Care work in our spin-off Live Action Role-Play to support transformative ends, This Coastal Town: https://dl.designresearchsociety.org/nordes/nordes2025/researchpapers/19/.