What happens when humans stop imagining ourselves as exceptional?
SEED_2065 is an art project focused on ecological flourishing and hope for the future. In June 2025, an open call led to 21 UK and International artists joining SEED_2065, to make new artworks for a first SEED show.
Artists included both emerging and established practitioners working across installation, drawing, sculpture, moving image, sound and performance. These artists created works for a December 2025 exhibition at the Handbag Factory Gallery, London.
The 21 artists either created a hopeful future world or documented our current dysfunction from that future perspective . By imagining a utopian future, we believe hope becomes a catalyst for positive change. All participants took part in a series of in-depth workshops focused on collaborative thinking, ecological ethics, and speculative futures.
This first exhibition at the Handbag Factory Gallery, ran from 4-15 December 2025, complemented by a variety of public events and workshop. These included:
- A collage making workshop focused on responding to the artworks.
- A workshop focused on stories for change.
- A lumen print workshop
- A zine making workshop
- An events evening with four artists’ performances and a hybrid lecture from Berlin on utopian and dystopian themes in art.
A key feature of these events was the opportunity for workshop participants to have their creative outcomes (such as collages and drawings/stories) displayed in the exhibition (this was optional).
To prepare for the exhibition, the artists met monthly, both virtually and face-to-face, to build a strong sense of community. Two whole-day face to face, and five Zoom workshops focused on familiarising ourselves with each other’s work, sharing key concepts like post-anthropocentrism, utopian thinking and radical futurism, and collaborating on “worldbuilding” ideas for this first show.
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