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Woolfalk: 'It's really complicated. A groundedness and knowing history is important. I attempt to embed that in the futures that I build.'

Participants asks: 'How do we depart from the violence of today in thinking of the future without reproducing this violence?'

Woolfalk she creates this blended, fluid world in response to the lack of this type of vision in our real world.

Woolfalk: 'My spaces aren't virtual places, but physical places activated by bodies and centred on bodies.'

Woolfalk: 'I wanted to build a visualisation system for what cultural blending and fluidity and would be.'

Participant: 'We are always missing out on art all around us.'

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Participant: 'A truly great artist is someone who innovates a new logic system, and gives us new possibilities.'

Agora participant: 'Some art is about realising a project and other art is about responding to something like I do with my camera.'

Woolfalk continues: 'I am always thinking about the human body in space.'

Woolfalk: 'I think very much about the relationship of the viewer to the object and the emotions that come to viewers spatially.'

Participant: 'Some people are born with amazing creative ability, but we can enjoy their talent and relive it through viewing.'

Agora participant: 'As an art educator, I've seen how the arts encourage kids to understand things in a non-binary way.'

A high school Agora participant: 'Being in schools that don't encourage creativity, makes us seek creativity beyond the classroom.'

Another participant: 'We knock creativity out of young children, and this way of thinking is discouraged.'

Woolfalk: When I look for collaborators, I look for people that have mastered something to the point where they can expand its possibilities

A participant responds: 'Anybody can be an artist it's just a matter of if they choose to.'

Participant asks: 'If the term artist is expanded, how do museums, curators, and art historians determine what is good?'

Another participant: 'An artist isn't just a creative thinker but a do-er.'