Future Soundings: Online or in-person workshop/performance

Future Soundings develops an approach to reflecting on the present through the lens of the future. It is part workshop and part performance. As you take a walk through your city an app on your phone prompts you to imagine travelling through time. It asks you to describe what you might see and hear in the places you pass. When you return, a science-fiction story, made collectively from the futures that you and other participants imagine, is performed live with an improvised soundtrack. Jo Swinson, Director P4NE, wrote Future Soundings is “a powerful tribute to what imagination can do.”

PERFORMANCES/ENGAGEMENT
• Commissioned for policymakers/civil engineers as part of workshop series on regenerative design: Regenerative Design Policy Lab with Chatham House Sustainability Accelerator, Chatham House, London, 24th September;
• for European policymakers and NGOs at P4NE (Partners for a New Economy) at conference 'New Economies: Tipping Points in a Shifting Political Landscape', Nov 7-8 2024, Brussels;
• Architecture 00 and Bristol City Council are using Future Soundings and Future Places Toolkit to engage stakeholders & community in Knowle West with the Filwood Broadway High Street Delivery Plan, 2024-25. Part of successful £125,000 tender by team led by Architecture 00.
•Performed online for Future Leaders, Lagos (Made Culture), Durban (Substance Point) and Bristol, as part of British Council-funded 5-day lab, August 2021 with climate futures focus.
•Also shown online as City Futures for Made Culture & Watershed’s Creative Producers Lab, Lagos, Nigeria, funded by British Council, 2021.
•Performed in-person at PLACCC Festival, Budapest (1/5/22), at Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Belgrade (5/5/2022).
•At Watershed’s PM Studio Annual Gathering, 2022.
•for Hopeful Futures, the concluding Bristol+Bath Creative R+D events at Bath Spa, Locksbrook Campus, 10th and Watershed 11th November 2022.
•Upcoming performance/workshop for intergenerational community members with Centre for Sociodigital Futures at Zion Centre.