Hope in the Heat- In Conversation

An in conversation exploring the creative process behind Hope in the Heat, a project exploring and imagining hopeful visions of climate altered futures, with the Somerset House Future Producers and Studios resident Superflux.

Hope in the Heat invited six young creatives to imagine hopeful futures for the hotter world of tomorrow.

Over the course of seven mentored sessions with Anab and Jon, Directors of award-winning speculative design and art studio Superflux, six Future Producers developed their own perspectives and visions for other possible worlds; from intergalactic intimacy and space travel envisioned through the black queer gaze, to plant generated poetry and post-colonial herbology.

“The way a society imagines its future matters. And who gets to do the imagining matters.”

Oliver Morton, Planet Remade

After a warm welcome from Cassie Robinson, National Lottery Community Fund, this event will explore the creative responses of the Future Producers, which have been brought together in a digital space curated by Studio Koseda. In conversation with Superflux’s Jon and Anab, the Future Producers will discuss the ways in which their work developed and manifested over the course of the eight-week process, and explore the forces facing their futures.

The Future Producers working on this project are: Cherece Lucina Francesca Rechere Jessie Zhang Okocha Obasi Valeria Toro Zahrah Vawda

About Superflux 

Superflux is a critically acclaimed art and design studio imagining plural futures at the intersections of climate crisis, technology and more-than-human politics.

Founded by Anab Jain and Jon Ardern the studio’s work imagines and builds future worlds we can experience in the present moment. By creating new ways of seeing, being and acting, their work challenges us to question the decisions we make today, and inspires us to fight for a future worth living for. Superflux’s work has been described in the press as “powerful”,  “stirring and “electrifying”.

Over the last decade the studio has delivered creative innovation projects for organisations such as Google AI, Govt. of UAE, Cabinet Office UK, Mozilla, DeepMind, UNDP and Omidyar Network. Simultaneously, they have produced immersive installations that have been exhibited across the world including Centre for Contemporary Culture Barcelona, ArtScience Museum Singapore, National Museum of China, MoMA, V&A Museum, La Biennale de Venezia and Vienna Biennale for Change.