Can storytelling help address the democratic crisis? Let’s Agree on Poland: A Case Study of Constitutional Design(Oxford University Press, 2025) responds with an audacious “yes.” The book — the product of nearly a decade of cross-partisan collaboration among 130 Polish intellectuals — is anchored in rigorous constitutional design. Yet it also ventures into new territory for comparative constitutionalism by placing literature at the heart of institutional imagination. Part II of the volume features five fictional stories, created in a unique partnership between policy experts and some of Poland’s most celebrated novelists. Each narrative imagines life in a different region — progressive, conservative, leftist, Christian democratic, and classical liberal — operating under the book’s proposed system of strategic decentralization. Far from serving as simple illustrations, these stories became integral to the project’s methodology, forcing authors and co-authors alike to grapple with the concrete social, cultural, and moral consequences of institutional design. This panel brings together several of the fiction writers involved in the experiment. They will reflect on how writing within the frame of a constitutional proposal sharpened their own political imagination and deepened the project’s cross-ideological dialogue. The discussion will also explore why law-and-literature collaborations may be particularly powerful in times of democratic polarization and populist backlash. By situating Poland’s experience in a broader European and global context, the panel will ask whether “dreaming beyond polarization” through storytelling can become a valuable tool for other societies striving to renew democracy in an age of division.