Multistory

Small Change

If you want to achieve something big, you start with something small and you start where it counts.

Multistory's Small Change: Creative Projects is a community development programme that explores how creative interventions, such as participatory arts, have the potential to bring about positive change in communities.

Multistory is currently delivering pilot Small Change projects with artists and partners in the UK and internationally. We are currently delivering four creative projects in London, Bath, Birmingham and West Bromwich and information about these projects can be found by clicking on the projects on this page.

The Small Change approach starts with the common sense assumption: if you want to achieve something big, you start with something small and you start where it counts. Small Change therefore explores how small, practical and mostly low budget interventions, if carefully targeted, act as catalysts for bigger long-lasting change; change that is designed to improve people’s lives and their life opportunities.

The Small Change projects fit into a wider programme of work called the Small Change Forum (The Forum). The Forum supports, shares and promotes small change community-based practice around the world and these projects provide case files for learning research and development. This is a partnership between Multistory and the Centre for Development and Emergency Practice (CENDEP), Oxford Brookes University.