Cultural Foresight
Interpreting cultural shifts, anticipating emerging expectations, and supporting decision-making during moments of growth and reorientation.
Promoting, preserving, presenting shared creative and cultural life.
Begin a Conversation →“Culture is not peripheral.
It is foundational.”
It structures how meaning is formed, how values are expressed, and how futures are imagined and realized.
Everything we do starts from that position.
The Practice
A cultural practice for cultural leaders.
ElevenThirtySix works alongside the leaders of cultural and civic institutions on the long-form questions that define where you stand. We support that work in three modes — promotion, preservation, presentation.
Select Clients
- A+E Networks
- AIR Gallery
- Berlin Rosen
- Cave Canem
- Common Field
- Cool Culture
- Corkin Gallery
- Dance NYC
- International Center of Photography
- MAP Fund
- Museum Hue
- MWW
- Recess
- Socrates Sculpture Park
- SONY Pictures
- The Africa Center
- International Studio & Curatorial Program
- The Laundromat Project
- The Possibility Project
Promote
Lifting what matters into wider view.
For cultural leaders, promotion is the work of bringing what your institution stands for into wider view. We shape the narrative and anticipate the cultural shifts that determine how your work is received.
Narrative Architecture
The language, campaigns, and programming that shape how an institution is understood in public life.
Preserve
Stewarding what is held in common.
For cultural leaders, preservation is the work of safeguarding mission and position through moments of growth, transition, and reorientation. We bring strategic counsel to the long-form decisions of stewardship.
Institutional Positioning
Clarifying who you are, what you stand for, and how mission, leadership voice, and public presence move in coherence.
Leadership Transitions
Strategic counsel for leaders navigating institutional growth, leadership change, or strategic reinvention.
Mission Stewardship
Safeguarding what your institution stands for across time — through changes in leadership, audience, and the cultural landscape that surrounds it.
Present
Bringing the work into public life.
For cultural leaders, presentation is the public-facing work — how your institution shows up in cultural life, and how your voice carries within it.
Cultural Programming
Strategic counsel on how an institution shows up publicly: exhibition strategy, public programs, civic engagement, the design of presence.
Leadership Voice
Developing the public voice of cultural leaders — how the head of an institution speaks, writes, and shows up in the cultural conversation.
For Creative Practitioners
If you are building a creative life.
The practice shares its work openly with anyone building a creative life on their own terms — through teaching, writing, conversation, and the spaces where the field meets itself. Begin wherever you are most drawn.
Begin
Engagements begin with a conversation.
We work with a small number of cultural and civic institutions each year. If you are navigating a strategic question and this work resonates, we would welcome the opportunity to speak.
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