Future Scenarios is a multi-platform project that comprises a three-channel artist film, photographic prints, speculative future newspapers and magazines and an interactive website.
Future Scenarios explores improving and deteriorating plausible scenarios of climate change in locations that are vulnerable to climate change and those which are historically responsible for greenhouse gas emissions. The project specifically investigated scenarios of climate-induced migration, hurricanes, sea-level rise, conflict, heat and water stress and food sovereignty by asking “what if” questions that challenge us to participate in the collective act of shaping our shared climate-changed futures.
The project was realised between 2016-2021 in Lao PDR, Bangladesh, Nepal, the UK, the U.S. and Uganda and began as part of Culture and Climate Change research residency, which facilitated collaborations between artists and climate change researchers.
At the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, the project has been reconfigured for the digital environment with the aim of increasing accessibility. The project was expanded by an educational resource created in collaboration with climate researchers. The result was the interactive website www.futurescenarios.co.uk
Future Scenarios, selected images, digital medium photograph, size variable, 2016-2021