Jack Stacey

Make, Connect, Ensemble is an 8 week expenmental music course designed to bring art students who have little to no previous music experience together through sound, creativity and collaboration. This course explores how individuals can connect with one another by engaging in the process of collecting and creating music in unconventional ways. The participants are to gather sounds through field recording, capturing elements of their everyday environment. Alongside this they will design and build their own unique instruments allowing for personal expression and a deep connection to the music created from said instruments. This course culminates in a live ensemble performance hosted at Kelvingrove bandstand. This allows the participants to showcase their hand-crafted instruments and compositions.

The Greenkeeper programme is an education pathway that introduces young people to the agriculture sector of 2035. Students are introduced to the Greenkeeper Role, which serves as a base for learning about equitable farming and land stewardship in secondary schools.

An interactive co-op game allows pupils (aged 12-15) to learn and interact with future roles in agriculture. This game allows the pupils to play competitively against their peers, testing their knowledge about how to manage habitats equitably and thinking critically about the consequences of their landscape decisions

This project envisions a near future shaped by ecological collapse and systemic failure, grounded in present-day research. After the climate emergency was recognised in 2019, global systems continued to prioritise economic growth, leading to repeated harvest failures.

By 2035, collapsing supply chains and eroded public trust led to the failure of existing governments. This resulted in the emergence of the Council of collective health one year following, headed by scientists, species advocates, healthcare workers and local communities. This new governance model recognises human wellbeing as inseparable from ecosystem health and is guided by the Green Manifesto, which grants personhood to all life, mandates living infrastructure, protects ecosystems through law and unifies health, environment and agriculture.

These principles are shown through a domestic living room exhibit, where our character’s mental health and non-human ecosystems are interdependent through shared data systems. Health care hubs curated to local species’ needs further reinforce this model of collective care by proposing that personal wellbeing can only exist within a healthy, reciprocal ecosystem.