Envisioning the Policy-making Experience of the Future: Poetry-making and Policy-making (Part I)

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Part I of Poetry-making and Policy-making: Arranging a Marriage between Beauty and the Beast (1993)

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Summary

How can we go about creatively envisioning the poetic experience of policy-making in a time to come? If the marriage works, then any progeny could well be quite different from both parents. Our imagination must necessarily be stretched. It is important to recognize that the product of this union will not replace the parents. Rather it performs a new function reflecting a creative union of their concerns. Perhaps it should be thought of as a "keystone" or "arena of conversion" between two approaches to reality. Perhaps it is the place from which policies can be engendered and emerge. And perhaps it is the place from which poetic imagination can derive new materials vital to our collective future. In these senses it is not the place of policy-making itself but rather a new place at which "policy-precursors" are made -- perhaps to be understood as the templates on which policies are built and by which they are integrated.