An Odyssey of Culture Change

Summary

Climate Spring’s Lucy Stone and Jim Peacock argue that the questions today’s crises raise can’t be answered with “better communications, policy or technical solutions”, because “Culture is our social soil”. So funders should give creatives patient capital, without picking winners or knowing which story will change what. Their warning: “You cannot instrumentalise culture for a political goal”.

Rationale

Its warning against instrumentalising culture is one we’d sign. Where it puts culture upstream of politics, we see each remaking the other. Lucy, one of its authors, joined our studios.