Future Soundings // Projects

What is Future Soundings?

Future Soundings is a combined workshop and performance that uses immersive sound and speculative fictions to create future scenarios generated by participants in-situ, building people's/organisations ability to anticipate transformation.

Bookings

Future Soundings is a bespoke activity that can be tailored to the themes of your event. For further information regarding numbers of participants, length of workshop and cost please email info@uninvited-guests.net

Testimonials

"Future Soudings has profoundly impacted my perspective on what's possible. It is a beautiful tool which allows us to move beyong the confines of utopian and dystopian thinking, helping communities imagine and experience better futures together."
Zoe Rasbash (Climate Action Researcher, Watershed, UK)

"I love the speculative approach that drives this. It was particularly interesting for me as I did it with my 11 year old son. The exercise alters time in how it reconfigures the relationship between present and future through technology and imagination."
Russell Hlongwane (Cultural Producer, Substance Point, Durban)

"In our high street regeneration work on Filwood Broadway, a neighbourhood high street in South Bristol, we've aimed for people to feel they belong as contributors in the process - we want them to feel they can be part of the change that is happening.
In the experimental theatre practices of Uninvited Guests we saw a potential 'way in' to that feeling - Future Soundings storytelling workshops are helping us imagine the future differently and there is real power in the shared experience of a live performance, particularly one which you have co-created. As participants said of the performed story: 'It felt like a shared vision!'"
George Lovesmith (Architect, artist and educator, UK)

Current projects

1. RIVER AVON PROJECT

We are currently working with communities along the river Avon, from its source to its mouth, exploring how its experiential form might open policy and decision making for people living on or near the Avon.

We've been responding to the Climate and Environment challenge articulated by our partner Defra: "How could the way we engage people in decision-making - the very act of creating new futures - about the freshwater system be radically different?"

This is funded by University of Bristol.

2. FILWOOD BROADWAY REGENERATION PROJECT

We are pleased to be part of multi-disciplinary team, led by Architecture 00, alongside George Lovesmith and Studio Mothership, working on Bristol City Council's High Street Delivery Plan: "Transforming Filwood Broadway'' in South Bristol.

We will be using Future Soundings to engage the community of Filwood to imagine the future of their high street.

Background

Early versions of this workshop have previously been staged for the Future Leaders International Lab, as an online performance connecting participants in Durban, Bristol and Lagos whose contributions were merged into a hybrid city narrative exploring climate justice.

We have also run versions for the Centre for Social Digital Futures and as part of DEFRA Changing Course program looking at the future of UK waterways.

We've recently shown Future Soundings at the Anticipation 2024 conference at Lancaster University.

For further information about this project please email info@uninvited-guests.net

Recordings of previous improvised soundtracks below: