The Research Centre for Creative Arts and Public Value (RCCAPV) aims to become an internationally recognised university-level centre at EdUHK. In the context of the RCCAPV, the arts are construed broadly, to encompass such well-established forms of expression as literature, music, cinema, dance, and theatre, but also new and emerging types of creative expression (e.g. Non Fungible Token art), as well as the transformation of traditional art forms through technology-assisted experimentation, for example in ‘collaboration’ with AI or robots. Equally important are the spaces, virtual and physical, where art making is made and shared, including by means of platformisation, digitization, and blockchain. Clearly focused on the creative arts, the RCCAPV will develop and support innovative (practice-based, policy-oriented) research that describes, analyses, explains, defends, and strengthens the arts’ contributions to society, across the full spectrum of value. That spectrum includes cultural value, social value, ethical value, spiritual and religious value, but also the value of health and well-being, of inclusion, diversity, voice, and recognition. These are all types of value that have a clear public dimension, due to their role in creating the conditions for cohesive, well-integrated, sustainable societies where human beings are able to flourish and prosper, in harmony with other species and the natural world of which they themselves are a part.