Social Change Creativity: Proposing a New Domain for Equity, Social Justice, and Human Rights

Abstract

This paper extends the growing conversations around creativity's metamorphic capacities for good to propose and explore Social Change Creativity (SCC) as a distinct creative domain in which individuals and communities engage in the creative process to combat social injustice and manifest equitable social outcomes. SCC involves the use of creative strengths and imagination to promote social equity and justice. Drawing on the Amusement Park Theoretical Model of Creativity, the authors position SCC as a domain of creativity within a broader prosocial area. They then outline microdomains, evaluation strategies, applications, and a field agenda.