The Manuals
Long term research project (2018-
Arts Council England, Tate Exchange, Barbican, The Wellcome Trust to date.

The Manuals is a set of instructions for a new culture, where humans build ecosystems by reappropriating manmade objects and infrastructure to provide for the eight million other species that call Earth home. It asks: how can we build ecosystems through our everyday actions, rather than destroy them? The project is currently researching the following areas:

• Death and burial: how the designs of headstones and tombs and the sacredness of human burial sites can be used as a form of ecological defence. The nutrients of our dead being of ecological value.

• The military: war is at the forefront of innovation and is geared towards, both mentally and physically, acting quickly - both these attributes are needed to turn the tables on the destruction of biodiversity and climate crisis. 

• Food: the everyday disconnection we have with how our food is grown and caught to the biggest reason for the mass destruction of nature. How can this relationship change?

Listen to a talk about the project here: theworldaround.com