Intractable social problems persist despite legal sanctions and economic incentives. It is time to try a new approach. The answer may lay in culture - using creativity, story telling and community engagement to motivate and inspire. Cultural Solutions documents the great success stories of lives and communities transformed. It explores new ways of belonging, building social capital and bringing pleasure and joy to lives and creating public value. Design, heritage, storytelling, participation and performance are the essential tools that may solve intractable problems. Griffith REVIEW brings the stories from the creative frontlines of this new world to life in edition 44.