In this episode, Michael Frugtniet is joined by Peter Mousaferiadis to examine why culture is so often celebrated in public language while remaining structurally weak in policy, education, technology and civic life. The conversation asks how culture has been narrowed into manageable categories — arts, heritage, identity, tourism, creative industries or community programming — and what is lost when it is treated as symbolic rather than foundational. Moving from cultural policy to intercultural confluence and neuroscience, the episode explores what it would mean for culture to become civic infrastructure: a living system through which societies build trust, belonging, imagination and shared meaning.