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A value system is fostered through storytelling and negotiation in forums of public discourse.

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 share

recognizing hidden care and domestic labor in economic life, • prioritizing human well-being alongside other metrics of wealth, • correcting for unequal access to authority and agency, • asserting the validity and inescapability of ethical judgment, and • intersecting gender analysis with that of race, class, and other forms of identity.

These are all pointers to a future fusion of technology, the arts, and community engagement in shaping cities, where our minds and bodies are activated in different kinds of experience, connection and imagination. They echo an earlier point about politics. If the tools of art can be used to construct possible future options for a society, to flush