Vol. 22 No. 40 (2024): Care Under Change 1
Essays

An essay about creative caring potentials in everyday life

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  • Janne Brammer Damsgaard,
  • Rasmus Dyring,
  • Lone Grøn
Janne Brammer Damsgaard
Institut for Folkesundhed, Aarhus Universitet
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7146/tfss.v22i40.136837

Published 2024-06-25

Keywords

  • Everyday creativity,
  • Micro perspective,
  • Creative practices,
  • World-open,
  • Relation,
  • Resonance,
  • Moment,
  • Flow,
  • Lifeworld,
  • Co-creation,
  • Care
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Damsgaard, J. B., Dyring, R., & Grøn, L. (2024). An essay about creative caring potentials in everyday life. Tidsskrift for Forskning I Sygdom Og Samfund - Journal of Research in Sickness and Society, 22(40). https://doi.org/10.7146/tfss.v22i40.136837

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Abstract

Since the 1990s when Joan Tronto wrote that “creative work and art is not care", a vast amount of literature has been produced, exploring how art and creativity can add potential to care. Many of these perspectives see art forms as ‘tools’ useable as interventions in connection with care. With this essay, we wish to change this perspective and contribute to an explication, re-configuration, and re-conceptualization of the potentials to enhance creativity in care where it unfolds in everyday life. We argue that health professionals can benefit from this micro perspective and the creative practices, constantly evolving in everyday life, when we, for example, use our abilities to improvise, act innovative and flexible, and thereby create meaningful adjustments to everyday life. Playing down the focus on individual psychological phenomena, and turning to a relational context i.e., a more nuanced sociological-ontological and situated openness and understanding of creativity, it is possible to find world-opening caring potentials. We argue, that within this relational space, it is possible to find intense moments of resonance, which, if we are aware, can find and appreciate as solidary flow states, meaningful experiences, and possibilities, enhancing the inclusion of people as active co-creators of their lifeworlds.

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