Imperfect Futures is an interdisciplinary collective working across art, design, and architecture. Through speculative research, spatial interventions, and curatorial practice, the collective interrogates power in design, language, and the image-world. Their work traces the interconnections between colonialism, climate, and capital, focusing on land dispossession, leisure infrastructures, and the control of nature.
Engaging with futurity, aspiration, access, borders, and publicness, Imperfect Futures challenges hegemonic forms of knowledge production by generating multi-narrative imaginaries across diverse geographies and disciplines, exploring ideas through drawing, mapping, film, installation, and performance as methods for engaging with relational infrastructures and networked practices.
Central to their work is a critical engagement with the politics of space, and time. Imperfect Futures is an opening to think through alternative timelines and timescapes, and to critically engage with spatial practice as a means to reshape historical narratives and envision alternative futures.
The collective comprises Naadira Patel, Manijeh Verghese, Sarah de Villiers, Madeleine Amsler, Alice Clancy, and Zen Marie, alongside an expanding network of collaborators.
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