This project brings together social enterprises that use creative practice as a way of promoting sustainable soicial development, together with art, design and community researchers. Working in partnership, we shall design and execute a collaborative research project around a shared set of concerns. Recognising that creative practitioners are often more comfortable communicating through and around their work than they are using abstract language to discuss research design, we shall be using creative practices as a way of opening up our discussions of the domain, exploring the priorities of the different stakeholders, and developing our detailed research plan.