From mushroom bricks and earthships, to teleportation in the blink of an eye, the utopian visions of teenagers meet the climate solutions of academics in this installation for climate hope. Together, we’ll visualise a liveable future.
Awareness of the climate crisis & its impacts has grown hugely in recent years. Yet the focus is on the horrors that unfold if we stick with the status quo. Unearthing these horrors isn’t igniting change fast enough; we think it’s time for a different approach focussed on hope, optimism and big ideas.
Meet a performer, close your eyes and experience a guided visualisation. Listen through headphones to a cycle of climate good news. Follow the hanging roots of reused materials to create a landscape. Share a story for a liveable future on a postcard and add it to the growing archive of hope.
Recipient of Camden People's Theatre's Outside The Box Commission 2022. Supported by the Royal Victoria Hall Foundation and The University of St Andrews' Impact and Innovation Fund 2024.
"A bit of euphoria"
Audience Member
“It is more important than ever to harness the optimism
& imagination required to build the world we so urgently
need. We need a new narrative, a new story for the
future.”
Alice Aedy - Climate Storyteller
2026
To be announced
2024
Camden People's Theatre, London, England
St Andrews Botanic Gardens, St Andrews, Scotland
2022-23
work-in-progress
Camden People's Theatre, London, England
DIRECTOR: Caitlin Evans
DESIGNER: Nic Farr
PERFORMER: Katherine Payne
SOUND DESIGNER: Carla Ng
TECHNICAL STAGE MANAGER & LIGHTING DESIGNER: James Dolan
PRODUCER: Caitlin Evans
PRODUCING PLACEMENT in R&D: Domi Ucar
Developed with students at Parliament Hill School, Camden Youth Theatre and St Andrews university, alongside climate academics through UCL Culture, and climate activists. Participants responded to a creative invitation to imagine a liveable future. These responses were used to devise a performance installation, using materials, movement, sound and text to create an space for radical imagination and climate optimism.
"it made me think in a way I hadn’t thought about the
climate crisis"
Year 9 student
"a joy to participate... and learn about my idea of a
utopia! I would love it if there were other workshops
like that in the future."
Year 9 Student
