Art as a Beacon of Hope: How Creative Expression Can Transform Our World
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Art as a Beacon of Hope: How Creative Expression Can Transform Our World
for art to serve social imagination, it has to be organised in ways that allow time for it to be absorbed and adapted, so that it becomes an act of co-creation rather than just an act of consumption or an enjoyable way to pass the evening.15 If it is only an object for the passing gaze, then it is, perhaps, bound to fail. Experiences that are
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Like our own imagination, art can wander off, seeking out the edges, the borderlands, the mysteries. Indeed, this autonomy is art’s power and part of its emotional appeal. But this very ability to separate from everyday material life may also make art impotent in trying to shape the world from which it has escaped. At most it can be a nudge or a
... See moreGeoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
