We are very excited to announce the launch of CASCADE INQUIRY: our ambitious initiative of experiential projects that imagine future worlds where positive climate action has been taken.

Exploring hopeful climate futures

For several years now, we have been exploring and foregrounding the complexity of the climate crisis through experiential, more-than-human, speculative projects and practices. Given the urgency of the situation we now find ourselves in, we are keen to not only deepen our understanding of the knotty complexity of this planetary polycrisis, but more importantly, really get to grips with how to influence and action change—collectively, plurally, ecologically… 

We are undoubtedly in a state of crisis and growing instability; the climate crisis and cascading risks associated with it are furthering inequality and polarisation. Transformative action has not yet been implemented multilaterally, and numerous parties continue to lack the ambition to implement change on the scale that is required. So how do we move beyond political deadlock? How do we turn our collective focus toward systemic change, transformational futures and action? How can we go beyond the status quo to imagine alternatives? 

Those questions led us to more questions, and we distilled our frustrations and motivations into a few fundamentals: 

With such questions brewing in our studio, we were delighted to be invited by King’s Culture, King’s College London, to hold a climate futures research residency in their Inigo Rooms from July 2022 onward.

Titled Activation, we created an experiential space in which to think, ask, read, map, plot, arrange, rearrange in order to begin to nurture interconnected, systemic, plural visions of climate positive futures.