Resources

The changing world requires creativity and imagination. Creative thinking can be intentionally unleashed and harnessed in individuals and communities. The Creative Community Building program at the University of Connecticut engages the creative thinking and collaborative action necessary for shaping our communities. We encourage the thinking, attitudes and behaviors that support Creative Community Building, integrating partners and resources such as:

• University of Connecticut, Center for Continuing Studies
• Association for Humanist Sociology
• Cooperative Development Institute
• Grassroots Economic Organizing
• International Centre for Creativity and Imagination

• Animating Democracy - Americans for the Arts
• Ashoka
• Case Foundation
• DEMOS: Everyday Democracy
• Everyday Democracy
• Grassroots Economic Organizing
• Next American City
• New Economics Foundation
• New Village Commons
• Ode Magazine
• open Democracy
• Smart City Radio
• Skoll Foundation
• Social Sculpture Research Unit; Oxford Brookes University

Recommended Reading:

• The Creative Age: Awakening Human Potential in the Second Half of Life - Gene Cohen
• The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World - Paul Ray
• Defying the Crowd: Cultivating Creativity in a Culture of Conformity - Robert Sternberg and Todd Lubart
• Education is Everybody’s Business: A Wake-Up Call to Advocates of Educational Change - Berenice Bleedorn 
• Living Your Strengths - Albert Winseman, Donald Clifton and Curt Liesveld
• Municipal Mind: Manifestos for the Creative City - Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
• New Creative Community: The Art of Cultural Development - Arlene Goldbard
• The Rise of the Creative Class - Richard Florida
• Utne Reader - July-August 2008 - Special Issue on “The Future of Creativity“
• Willing to Learn - Mary Catherine Bateson