LEAP Lab: Living Experiments in Arts-Science Practice to Re-imagine Sustainability

How can we go beyond existing forms of artistic and scientific practice, to imagine and create sustainable societies?

LEAP Lab aims to create a space for being and re/searching together in multiple ways – scholarly, artistic, and beyond, to explore questions concerning sustainability. We welcome and encourage presences from any and every disciplinary practice, in an endeavour to generate encounters and engagements that explore the blurry yet potentially generative nature of disciplinary boundaries. 

This transdisciplinary project involves a collective of researchers and practitioners at the University of Cambridge and Anglia Ruskin University. Our work is structured within three creative experiments:

• Portals to Possible Futures – What kind of past would we need to reimagine/recreate so that we might be able to dream the future differently?

• Un/knowing – What new ways of knowing might emerge if we are more open to unknowing?

• Beyond the Gallery – How would our practice differ if we increased our awareness of galleries we are playing to, and attempted to go beyond them?