Promoting the arts and humanities as social resources.
Cultural Agents is a platform for academics, artists, community leaders, and active citizens. It is an invitation to revive a long humanistic tradition that combines arts and research in the service of civic development.
Change requires imagination, thinking like an artist, so we learn from exemplary creative agents and share lessons that can challenge stale paradigms with artful alternatives. The purpose is both intellectual and social. Thinking and doing go together.
Associate of the Bloomberg Center for Cities and the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability
Projects
Cultural Agents
The public-facing NGO that coordinates activities with Harvard’s Cultural Agents Initiative. The NGO develops research opportunities and internships for Harvard Students.
Pre-Texts
An arts-based pedagogy that works like acupuncture: “Make art from this text” is a prompt that puts cognitive, emotional and social faculties in gear. The combination stimulates pleasure in learning for good results in mastery and mental health.
Renaissance Now
After a pandemic, the world is ready for change. Renewable resources abound in local participatory arts that decision makers in public leadership and private sectors can engage to address apparently intractable problems.
Cases for Culture
A collection of evidence-based illustrations, mostly from HBS, of participatory arts as resources for policymakers.
Latest News
- Fundación CIMA in Mexico, dedicated to patients with breast cancer, hosted its first Pre-Texts workshop thanks to the generous support of Gilead Sciences. This […]
- In October 2025, the BACH team of Pescara, Italy, led a Pre-Texts training session for PACESETTERS—an EU-funded initiative to advance cultural entrepreneurship for climate […]
- On January 19 and 22, La Universidad de La Sabana concluded its initial Pre-Texts workshop series and initiated the facilitator replication phase, in which […]
- In June 2025, the BACH Center introduced the Pre-Texts protocol to the University of Glasgow, with facilitation by Valeria Pica, as part of a […]
- On January 6, 2026, the Universidad de Playa Ancha, Chile, hosted an in-person Pre-Texts workshop through its Master’s Program in Linguistics and the Department […]
- lov.foundation launched the Israel Edition of Right to Listen (R2L) in partnership with Tel Aviv University, convening a diverse chorus of voices to reexamine listening as […]
- The 43rd Annual Re-Rooters Day Ceremony will take place on Wednesday, January 7, 2026, at 4:00 pm EST at the Breakwater Hotel, East End, […]
- The Pre‑Texts Protocol Workshop, facilitated by Mara Boccaccio and Katia De la Cruz at the International Teaching & Learning Conference (University of Cape Town, […]
- Colombia has made history by recognizing arts education as a fundamental right through the new Artes al Aula law. From preschool to the end […]
- Public school students aged 14 to 16 participated in a full-day Pre-Texts program at the Central Library of Mönchengladbach, in connection with the exhibition […]
- CGM, Italy’s National Consortium of Social Cooperatives, carried out Pre-Texts training for 16 members across two sessions in Reggio Emilia and Desio. The workshop […]
- When we hosted an introductory workshop, Pre-Texts: The Arts Teach (Everything), participants experienced a deceptively simple creative pedagogy that transformed texts into raw material […]