Framework Principles

Encounter: Creating opportunities for people to pause, reflect and meet themselves, others and their surroundings in new ways. Through creative encounters, participants are invited to move beyond routine patterns of thinking and engage with curiosity, imagination and possibility.

Connection: Building meaningful relationships between people, communities, disciplines and sectors. The framework values dialogue, participation and shared experience as essential components of wellbeing.

Creative Exploration: Using artistic and cultural practices as tools for reflection, expression and discovery. Drawing, movement, storytelling, sound, material exploration and sensory engagement become pathways for understanding and meaning-making.

Participation & Co-Creation: Participants are not passive recipients but active contributors. Projects are designed through collaboration, valuing lived experience, diverse perspectives and shared ownership.

Research & Reflection: Creative practice is supported by inquiry, evaluation and ethical reflection. Research helps capture learning, strengthen practice and contribute to broader conversations surrounding creative health and wellbeing.

Transformation: The framework seeks to create conditions where new insights, relationships and possibilities can emerge. Transformation is understood not as a fixed outcome, but as an ongoing process of becoming.

Exploring how creativity can support wellbeing, participation, workforce development and community resilience.

Culture + Public Health + Community Wellbeing + Research = Creative Health Innovation

Areas of Focus

Creative Health Innovation Exploring how arts and culture can contribute to prevention, wellbeing and healthier communities.

Programme Design & Facilitation Developing participatory creative programmes for healthcare, community and organisational settings.

Research & Evaluation Supporting evidence-informed approaches that connect lived experience, practice and policy.

Cross-Sector Collaboration Bringing together artists, healthcare professionals, researchers and decision-makers to create shared frameworks and new possibilities.

Social Connection & Belonging Using creative practice to address isolation, transition and the need for meaningful human connection.

Current areas of interest include:

Arts on Prescription

Social Prescribing

Workforce Wellbeing

Community Resilience

Intergenerational Practice

Creative Health Research

Participatory Programme Design

Curare Studio creates spaces where creativity becomes a catalyst for connection, reflection and change. Through the meeting of arts, culture, health and community, the framework supports more human-centred ways of living, working and belonging.