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Project‐based leisure: theoretical neglect of a common use of free time

Project‐based leisure is a short‐term, moderately complicated, one‐shot1 or occasional though infrequent, creative undertaking carried out in free time. It requires considerable planning, effort and sometimes skill or knowledge, but is for all that neither serious leisure nor intended to develop into such. Nothing has been written about project‐based leisure per se, even though it appears to be widely pursued wherever people have sufficient free time and resources for it. The object here is to present a conceptual framework detailed enough to focus inquiry, but at the same time open‐ended enough to permit and encourage effective and extensive exploration of this (theoretically) new form. Among those likely to engage in project‐based leisure are people with heavy workloads; homemakers, mothers and fathers with extensive domestic responsibilities; and unemployed individuals who, though looking for work, still have time at the moment for (mostly one‐shot) projects. In the Conclusion, project‐based leisure is discussed as a form of leisure experience.