Placeholder essay — replace this body with the real piece when ready.
When we say culture is civic infrastructure, we mean it literally. Roads move bodies. Power grids move energy. Culture moves attention, meaning, and shared imagination — the substrates a society uses to coordinate at scale.
Why now
A short paragraph on the moment we’re in — fragmentation, loneliness, the erosion of common ground — and why a specifically Bay Area answer is fitting.
What CIRCUL proposes
Three or four paragraphs sketching the answer: collective creation, the four pillars, the role of the gathering, the long arc.
Where this leads
Closing reflection.