This book looks at creativity as an emergent phenomenon arising from complex social and material interactions over time. Whether in a classroom, a local community, an online collaboration, a laboratory, or the worlds of art or architecture, the actions of individuals matter. But no one is ever working alone. The inspirations, mediums, and meanings of creative work always depend on countless social and material actors—context. From this perspective, “context” is not just another category in the 7 C framework but part of every question about creativity. Each chapter of this book focuses on context in relation to one of the other C’s in the framework. This approach provides structure, but in the complexity of the world, all of the C’s are in some way relevant to any study. As a result, this book offers a conversation in which each chapter explores aspects foreshadowed or elaborated in other chapters. Through this conversation a number of themes emerge, including the particular roles of physical place, the ways cognition is socially and materially distributed, the importance of long- and short-term history to meaning and value, and the varied and changing roles of material actors. We invite readers to join this conversation.