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
- In our recent meeting with the Cultural Agents “weavers,” participants from diverse countries and contexts came together to share their progress, commitments, and innovative […]
- Between August 18 and 22, 2025, the Centro de Formación Permanente (CFP) in Uruguay hosted an in-person Pre-Texts training course led by Professor Doris […]
- Watch the video here! From July 1st to 7th, 2025, a week-long workshop took place at Shun Lee Catholic Secondary School (SLCSS) in Hong […]
- On September 23 and 25, at the Publishing House of the National University of Colombia, Bogotá Campus, we will host a special workshop: Pre-Texts: […]
- Blueprints for Arts and Policy in collaboration with Cultural Agents are delighted to share the invitation to our upcoming Salon, “The Critical Role of […]
- September 25, 2025 5.00-7.15pm HAA Room 422 Organized by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and History of Art and Architecture Department. […]
- We are pleased to share that Professor Doris Sommer will participate in the Fourth Continental Conference on Afro-Latin American Studies, organized by the Afro-Latin […]
- Between April and May 2025, the Pre-Texts protocol was implemented in Italian 2A at the University of Cape Town’s School of Languages and Literatures, […]
- Read article here! In August 2024, in the heart of Kharkiv, the Pre-Texts protocol created a space where literature and creativity served as powerful […]
- Watch the intreview here! The interview (see link under the photo) features Ms. Nishi from the Science Faculty at Heritage School, Vasant Kunj, New […]
- Cultural Agents, Inc. collaborated with City of Bogotá to host At Agentes Culturales Inc., we are thrilled to celebrate the opportunity to have implemented […]
- At the 2025 Ife Institute of Advanced Studies, in Osun State, Nigeria, convened by Professor Jacob Olupona and attended by academics throughout Nigeria, Doris […]