There is an urgent need to engage with deep leverage points in sustainability transformations—fundamental myths, paradigms, and systems of meaning making—to open new collective horizons for action. Art and creative practice are uniquely suited to help facilitate change in these deeper transformational leverage points. However, understandings of how creative practices contribute to sustainability transformations are lacking in practice and fragmented across theory and research. This lack of understanding shapes how creative practices are evaluated and therefore funded and supported, limiting their potential for transformative impact. This paper presents the 9 Dimensions tool, created to support reflective and evaluative dialogues about links between creative practice and sustainability transformations. It was developed in a transdisciplinary process between the potential users of this tool: researchers, creative practitioners, policy makers, and funders. It also brings disciplinary perspectives on societal change from evaluation theory, sociology, anthropology, psychology, and more in connection with each other and with sustainability transformations, opening new possibilities for research. The framework consists of three categories of change, and nine dimensions: changing meanings (embodying, learning, and imagining); changing connections (caring, organizing, and inspiring); and changing power (co-creating, empowering, and subverting). We describe how the 9 Dimensions tool was developed, and describe each dimension and the structure of the tool. We report on an application of the 9 Dimensions tool to 20 creative practice projects across the European project Creative Practices for Transformational Futures (CreaTures). We discuss user reflections on the potential and challenges of the tool, and discuss insights gained from the analysis of the 20 projects. Finally, we discuss how the 9 Dimensions can effectively act as a transdisciplinary research agenda bringing creative practice further in contact with transformation research.

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迫切需要利用可持续性转型中的深层杠杆点——基本神话、范式和意义创造系统——以开辟新的集体行动视野。艺术和创意实践非常适合帮助促进这些更深层次的转型杠杆点的变革。然而，对创意实践如何促进可持续发展转型的理解在实践中缺乏，并且在理论和研究中支离破碎。这种缺乏理解影响了创造性实践的评估方式，从而影响了创造性实践的资助和支持，从而限制了它们产生变革性影响的潜力。本文介绍了 9 个维度工具，该工具的创建是为了支持关于创意实践和可持续发展转型之间联系的反思和评估对话。它是在该工具的潜在用户（研究人员、创意实践者、政策制定者和资助者）之间的跨学科过程中开发的。它还将评估理论、社会学、人类学、心理学等领域关于社会变革的学科视角引入彼此之间以及与可持续性转型的联系，为研究开辟了新的可能性。该框架由三类变化和九个维度组成：改变意义（体现、学习和想象）；改变联系（关怀、组织和激励）；和改变权力（共同创造、赋权和颠覆）。我们描述了 9 维度工具是如何开发的，并描述了每个维度和工具的结构。我们报告了 9 维度工具在欧洲转型未来创意实践 (CreaTures) 项目中 20 个创意实践项目的应用。我们讨论了用户对该工具的潜力和挑战的看法，并讨论了从 20 个项目的分析中获得的见解。最后，我们讨论九个维度如何有效地充当跨学科研究议程，使创造性实践与转型研究进一步联系。

用于评估艺术和创意实践如何刺激社会变革的“9 个维度”一文首次出现在《生态与社会》上。