a collaborative journey to another future
Over the past few years, METIS has created a number of projects that ‘imagine otherwise’ – in the face of ecological disaster and political inertia, we have been trying to imagine another world into being. And we find that the more we imagine, the more we discover others who are imagining, too.
At the very least we are bearing witness to our future selves – reminding us that the apocalypse wasn’t or isn’t inevitable…
Over these years we’ve gathered with an extraordinary range of imaginers – specialists in fields across the whole of the humanities and sciences. Through ‘research-in-public’ conversations, hosted talks and events we’ve used their ideas to inform our performance work. You can see talks we hosted with just some of them, here…
the live show...
Thanks to a Season for Change commission, across 2020 and 2021, inspite of the pandemic, we created a cabaret-style show, Love Letters to a Liveable Future: The show, which was performed live at the Cambridge Junction on 21 & 22 July 2021.
Most recently we have created a workshop-performance for the promenade multi-performance event at the Floating University, Berlin: reEDOcate me!
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REEDOCATE ME @ FLOATING UNIVERSITY, BERLIN
The Cambridge show
Love Letters to a Liveable Future: The show
The Oslo Video installation
Factory of the Future
Our research
Principles for a Liveable Future
Our
Manifesto for Inclusive Imagining
our documentation
LOVE LETTERS TO A LIVEABLE FUTURE: R&D AGAINST THE ODDS
The London performance installation
WE KNOW NOT WHAT WE MAY BE
The residency
Love Letters to a Liveable Future: WELLCOME COLLECTION RESIDENCY
The postcards
Love Letters to a Liveable Future: The postcards
a short film about creating Love Letters to a Liveable Future
Over 2020 and early 2021, between waves of COVID-19, and lockdowns, we gathered online and offline, to keep exploring the joy and challenge of imagining otherwise. Against the odds we’ve collaborated, created, developed, rearranged and redesigned to bring you the show: Love Letters to a Liveable Future. Watch the six minute film…
An evolution...
Love Letters to a Liveable Future is another stage in the evolution of our work to ‘imagine otherwise’. Through research, collaboration and performance work we have been imagining alternatives to the current global economic order, in the context of environmental planetary destruction.
Having worked with specialists to research and understand the possibilities we gathered together with them and a participatory audience for a five day interactive performance installation at The Barbican in 2018 – WE KNOW NOT WHAT WE MAY BE. The output and development of that work became a 2-month gallery work at DoGA, the design institute – Factory of the Future – part of the Oslo Architecture Triennale 2019.
Read more about work that has emerged from our questioning…
postcards to the future
More recently, in lockdown, we produced a series of postcards for the HOMEMAKERS performance-in-lockdown series. These are still available…