From: The future as aesthetic experience: imagination and engagement in future studies
Perspective | Engaging with futures | Criticism to considering art and engagement in this way |
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Art as autonomous domain, separated from politics, constituted by its own rules and values | Art as outreach strategy to engage the public in futures research | Reducing art to an instrument, denying its autonomy |
Autonomous art as critical articulation of possible political positions and actions | Art as a source of alternative futures | Elitism: limiting art to museums and concert halls |
Art as experience, radical democratisation | Art as experience transforms pasts and futures; beyond the disinterested bystander perspective. | Conceptualising art in this way is a radical redefinition |