A famous colorful graffiti mural on a textured concrete wall section of the Berlin Wall. The artwork features a close-up, profile depiction of two older, bespectacled men in suits—Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and East German leader Erich Honecker—engaged in a passionate fraternal kiss. The background of the mural is covered in graffiti tags, and bold Russian and German text runs along the bottom border.

What If Creativity Arrived Before the Crisis?

Arts activism, sometimes called artivism, uses creativity to advance social change. Res Creativa asks a different question: How can creativity change our ability to live together? This is an inquiry into what becomes possible when we place creativity before crisis, rather than summoning it only after events have been set in motion. When It Comes…