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
- Healing Arts Barcelona, taking place from October 20–25, 2025, presents a multidisciplinary program that explores the intersection of art, health, and social transformation. Organized […]
- From the Central Library of Mönchengladbach, artist and educator Daniela Flörsheim collaborated with library director Yilmaz Holz-Ersahin, Harvard student Paul Palmer, musician Roland Wolff, […]
- Alejandro Romero, professor and researcher at the Complutense University of Madrid, currently research fellow in collaboration with Doris Sommer at Harvard University, explores possible […]
- The III National Conference “Utopías Por-Venir: Performing Utopias – Future, Emancipation, and Social Change” will take place in Valparaíso, Chile, from October 27 to […]
- 🎥 Watch the video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/2CnlAm_3QeM?si=LVwlBTLIDF_KoHyJ This September, we presented two videos that gather many of the testimonies collected during Pre-Texts workshops in […]
- 🎥 Watch the video on Youtube: https://youtu.be/y6If1ZUzcMs?si=V5Sk-D4WKQZ4Arat “Colegios Verdes del Pacífico” is a growing network of educators and promoters of development dedicated to raising […]
- SocArXiv Papers | The Pre-Texts Protocol: Promoting Flourishing Through Collective Creative Engagement A groundbreaking article just published in the journal Open Science Framework “The […]
- The Lemann Program on Creativity and Entrepreneurship, the Office for the Arts, and Blueprints for Arts and Policy invite the Harvard community to Art […]
- 🎥 Watch the video on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/813708176 This short film focuses on the new memorial as a profound act of stewardship that challenges us […]
- November 20, 2025. 4:30PM – 06:00PM CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St. S020 Speaker: Alessandro Carrera, University of Houston Discussant: Martin Puchner, Harvard University Plato’s […]
- 🎥 Watch the video on Youtube: https://youtu.be/myBbFzu-YVE?si=_G0gQLAI9FJuSBQo Mexican artist Pedro Reyes explores sculpture as both a physical and social practice, where matter acts as […]
- The Centerpiece Flower Shop will open its doors on October 18th, 2025, from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm, as a space dedicated to dialogue […]