> [!NOTE]+ Meta > Author:: Fiona Hackney > Reference:: https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/jaah_00111_2 > Date:: 2024 > Tags:: #warp > WeftLinks:: [[Psychological value of craft]] > Claim:: [[Claim - Craft improves well-being]] > [!SUMMARY] Summary > An issue of Craft Reserach is devoted to "well-making" as a use of craft to promote well-being. ### Highlights The editorial introduces the concept of "well-making," which focuses on how collaborative creative activities can enhance health and well-being. It emphasizes the importance of community engagement and the positive impact of making together. The articles in this issue explore various aspects of well-making, aiming to deepen understanding and promote beneficial outcomes in social and environmental contexts. > well-making is concerned with the changes that can happen when people make things together, paying attention to the processes, places, people and materials involved. > > The articles in this Special Issue show how well-making can offer safe spaces for co-operative thinking about change for good, promote critical reflection, give voice to those who are rarely heard, and build health agencies through acts of material and symbolic reciprocity, connection, sharing and learning by doing in ways that involve the body and the mind.