When responding to issues such as climate change, our perspective on relationships is often expressed in terms of individual change versus collective change, bottom-up versus top-down change, or local versus global change. If our goal is to transform systems at a global scale, understanding the relationship between individuals and systems is critical.

Art provides unexpected, compelling and novel ways of viewing the world. We may be able to perceive, and even imagine, ourselves and our world differently through making or engaging creative work.

Transformations to an equitable and thriving world will not happen through wishful thinking and hope. In fact, action and agency are essential to realizing desired outcomes and to manifest the quality and depth of changes called for in times of crisis. It is not just agency, but the quality of agency that is important when it comes to scaling transformative change.