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
- Wed, Apr 23, 6:00 PM, at The Brattle Theater, Cambridge, MA. Harvard Book Store welcomes Judith Butler—global icon and author of several books, including […]
- Field notes from Oscar Pardo, “Colegios Verdes del Pacifico”: On March 31, we traveled to Istmina as part of our “Pilgrimage for Education in […]
- June 20–25 More than a program, this next pilgrimage will be a space for reflection and connection with ourselves, other people, and the earth […]
- Ahead of the “India 2047” climate conference in New Delhi, nearly two dozen Harvard faculty, affiliates, and climate philanthropists visited Ahmedabad for a two-day […]
- In Gujarat, India, the Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) is leading a grassroots movement in climate adaptation, training local women as Climate Educators and […]
- Listen to Pre-Texts experiences from the Heritage School and allied Government Schools, New Delhi. Watch the video! The post Launch of Teach With🌏 Heritage School […]
- Congratulations to LOL Think Series, a pedagogy adapted from Pre-Texts.LOL is a resource, a partner, and a friend to schools and educators who want […]
- On Saturday, April 1, we hosted our bimonthly meeting with Coordinators and Wevers of Pre-Texts around the world. Recent reflections highlight how Pre-Texts is […]
- The post From Text to Talk appeared first on CULTURAL AGENTS.
- Join us in L’Aquila on April 15–16, 2025, for the national conference Student Wellbeing at University: Individual, Collective, and Organizational Dimensions, organized by GEO […]
- March 7-9, 2025 at The Foundry, Cambridge, MA. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all!’ Helen Kelle CASES FOR CULTURE, Cultural Agents, […]
- Dr. Doris Sommer, Professor at Harvard University, is in Ahmedabad for an exclusive UnConference to demonstrate the remarkable advances in cognitive and socio-emotional development […]