Our Portfolio

Creative R&D
Technology is a double-edged sword, it can be both an enabler of ecological restoration and a contributing force in ecological destruction. Moreover, it is never neutral. Creative R&D is about sowing the seeds for futures that are in danger of being foreclosed by the dominant techno-scientific imaginary, yet are urgently needed.

Through creative research-led experimentation with artists, technologists and change-makers, we aim to generate ideas and methodologies that pathfind new possibilities for ecological and technological futures. The idea is that the outcomes can be picked up by policy-makers, researchers, and creatives creating a ripple effect.

Prototyping
From growing energy demands and rare earth mining to e-waste, exploitative labour relations, and supply-chain disruption, today’s networked technologies have become a key site of ecological crisis and a driver of inequality. Yet the effects tend to be hidden behind a veneer of de-materiality, and go unacknowledged by governments and business.

In response, we work in collaboration with communities, creative technologists and our more-than-human kin, to prototype regenerative and easily replicable technologies – grounded in people and place. The resulting innovations tackle real-world issues, and are a source of inspiration and action for the future.

Artist Development
Artists have a key role to play in society, providing critical insight, new perspectives, and prefiguring new ways of being with and governing technologies. Artistic methodologies generate knowledge that is understood by being felt – something which is vitally needed amidst capitalist-colonialist extraction and abstraction.

We devise programmes that support artists to develop their technical and conceptual skills, equipping them to explore the creative and critical implications of technologies, especially the interplay between cultural narratives, the ecological crisis and technological accelerationism. In doing so, we aim to inspire imaginaries for flourishing techno and ecological diversities.