ABSTRACT
Both science and policy are interested in improving our understanding of the raison d’être and the evolution of citizen-led creative initiatives. Such initiatives appear to be playing an increasingly active role in public and social life (Meroni 2007). Their emergence is explained against the background of an increasing number of inadequately addressed public problems. Whether supported by public authorities or not, many initiatives seem to share the “wish to fill the incapacity of existing institutions to fight efficiently against terrible injustice that characterizes today’s world” (Boulanger 2015, 3). Such injustice can be social (inequality, unemployment), intergenerational (legacy to new generations), geographical (pillaging of resources in the South) and environmental (Boulanger 2015).
