Social / Justice / Practice: Exploring the Role of Artists in Creating a More Just and Social Public

This paper describes the creation of an energetic, new, third space—one where activists and artists come together with a shared understanding of the powerful possibilities for creative social interventions that can shift “small-c culture” and create change at the scale of the public. It explores how artists’ use of “productive fictions,” “elegant gestures,” humor, and surprise can interrupt social norms, helping people imagine new solutions to complex social problems. (Commissioned by animatingdemocracy.org.)

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