{"id":8,"date":"2025-11-17T09:34:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T09:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/polart\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2026-02-04T14:24:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T14:24:33","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/polart\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">POLART explores the interactions of art and public policy, two fields so far viewed primarily through their differences rather than their synergies. Although there is an established relationship between art and politics, what is the potential for art and public policy to come closer for the re-imagining or knowledge-making and governance in the 21<sup>st<\/sup>&nbsp;century?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While policy research has traditionally centred on science, measurement and evidence, less attention has been paid to the role of the arts in questioning dominant narratives, challenging assumptions and offering imaginative, empathetic and just ways of responding to social problems. Yet the arts have long influenced how policymakers make sense of, interpret and envision change in societies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">POLART breaks new ground by investigating this relationship systematically for the first time. Working at the intersection of public policy, science and technology studies (STS) and the sociology of art, the project aims to lay the intellectual foundations for the new research field of Art and Public Policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POLART explores the interactions of art and public policy, two fields so far viewed primarily through their differences rather than their synergies. Although there is an established relationship between art and politics, what is the potential for art and public policy to come closer for the re-imagining or knowledge-making and governance in the 21st&nbsp;century?&nbsp; While [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"abouttemplate.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/polart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/polart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/polart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/polart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/polart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/polart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197,"href":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/polart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/polart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}