Social Sculpture & Joseph Beuys

I just learned of Joseph Beuys as I was speaking with my friend Mark whom I've collaborated with in several "Social Sculpture" projects.

Joseph Beuys is responsible for coining the phrase "social sculpture" and believed that "Every human being is an artist, a freedom being, called to participate in transforming and reshaping the conditions, thinking and structures that shape and condition our lives."

From the Social Sculpture Research Unit. http://www.social-sculpture.org/
Social Sculpture refers to a conception of art, framed in the 1970s by Beuys, as an interdiscplinary and participatory process in which thought, speech and discussion are core 'materials'. With this perception, all human beings are seen as 'artists' responsible for the shaping of a democratic, sustainable social order. Social Sculpture lifts the aesthetic from its confines within a specific sphere or media, relocating it within a collective, imaginative work-space in which we can see, re-think and reshape our lives in tune with our creative potential.

It seems to me that the vast number of community based art programs could be included in this concept of social sculpture.

http://www.markrumsey.com/id3.html