In Other Worlds: Futures Forgotten

Unfulfilled ecological dreams. Undelivered technological promises. Lies. Conspiracy theories. Forgotten histories – futures that failed to materialise. The exhibition explores these complex narratives to challenge current thinking around techno-solutionism, colonialism, climate denial and surveillance capitalism.  

Through methodologies drawn from gaming, divination, future scaping, and worldbuilding, students have translated their visions into a series of installations and experiences. The works manifest in various forms – moving image, physical artefacts and installations – each one a thought experiment that doesn’t intend to put forward solutions, but rather to make us think about our present realities, creating a space for critical reflection and collective imagination. 

In Other Worlds: Futures Forgotten is a group exhibition features the work of students from the MA Information Experience Design programme at the Royal College of Art. All the pieces on display were developed in response to a brief with the same name, delivered by tutor Nestor Pestana in September 2024. 

Exhibiting Artists: 

Abhra Sengupta 

Aibei Wu 

Audrey Jeanne Renouf 

Chunxi Chen 

Fatimah Alabed 

Hanwen Li 

Huilin Yang 

Shuting Cui 

Wei Zixuan 

Xiao Zhang 

Yifei Cheng 

Yinqi Li 

Yuheng Jin 

Yuxing Chen 

Zhuozhuo Liu 

Orleans House Gallery is working with the Royal College of Art as part of our Cultural Reforesting programme. The programme asks artists to respond to the big question: How can we renew our relationship with nature? In Other Worlds runs alongside the Cultural Reforesting Exhibition.