The artist collective Imperfect Futures works at the intersections of social and artistic practice, design, architecture and film. Naadira Patel, Sarah de Villiers, Manijeh Verghese and Zen Marie are concerned with interrogating notions of power in architecture and design, in language, and in the image-world, through speculative and experimental approaches to making. 
 

Research approach

For this residency Imperfect Futures seeks to ask questions around the links between colonialism and climate through addressing the dispossession of land, loss of biodiversity due to industrialisation, and the containment and control of nature. Imperfect Futures will explore what can be learnt from this park – its past, and its present, its successes and failures – in order to speculate on possible futures, alternate-realities, dualities, provisions of escapism and phantom cities delineated from the ‘real’ world by fence and forest.