EcoFutures: Workshops

The EcoFutures workshops offer focused, hands-on spaces for collective reflection, skill-sharing, and experimentation. Running in parallel with selected programme sessions, these workshops are designed for smaller groups and require separate registration.

Workshop 1: Engrafting Hope

Date: Friday 27 February 2026, 15.00–16.00
Location: Red Room, Chelsea College of Arts
Host: Kwan Q Li (Artist, Hong Kong)

This workshop explores essayistic filmmaking as a way of living with grief and sustaining hope amid techno-positivist narratives. Through a performance lecture and guided reflection, participants encounter documentary, poetry, and artistic research as modes of emotional storytelling and attentiveness.

Workshop 2: Everyday Archiving

Date: Saturday 28 February 2026, 15:00–16:30
Location: Red Room, Chelsea College of Arts
Host: Jocelin Kee (Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong)

This hands-on workshop introduces practical and speculative approaches to archiving as a sustainable, everyday practice. Participants will explore digital storytelling, community mapping, and collaborative documentation, considering how anyone can become an archivist of their environmental surroundings.

Participants are encouraged to bring materials from a completed project (physical or digital).

Image courtesy: Kwan Q Li. O, Engraft You New, 2024. Two-channel moving stills. Co-commissioned by Videotage, Film London, and G39 Cardiff for the British Council’s SPARK FESTIVAL 2024. Image courtesy of the artist.