The Art | Futures poster marks the collaboration involved to organise the panel discussion “Economies: Reimagining Power and Futures — Arts-Based, Process-Oriented Ways of Making Worlds,” convened by Dr Kate Maclean through the Community Economies Research Network (CERN).

The poster sits at the meeting point of art, ecology and economy, an urgent call to reimagine how creative practice can help us live responsibly within systems that are changing faster than we can comprehend. It translates the spirit of the panel into a tangible form, inviting those ideas into everyday space.

Owning the poster is joining a shared inquiry. Proceeds from the edition are spilt between us and the Centre for Ecological Philosophy (CEP) and its ongoing collaborations with artists, scientists and communities exploring creative economies and ecological awareness.

The edition aligns with the ethos of Metalabel: art not as commodity but as collaboration, a way of publishing and participating together. Each print becomes a record of this moment and a small gesture toward collective infrastructure — art as care, attention and imagination.

Futures are not waiting to be found. They are waiting to be made, together.

Economies: Reimagining Power and Futures — Arts-Based, Process-Oriented Ways of Making Worlds

Kate Maclean - Chair Feminist Geographer, University College London Kate will facilitate the conversation, guiding discussion on the entanglements of art, space and political economy. She will ask how arts-based processes make-with human and more-than-human others, what forms of value and exchange they bring into being, and how they reimagine power and community.

Helen Edling - Artist and Curator Lokalen Kulturverkstad, Sweden Helen will present play as a method of creativity and political resistance. Through examples from her practice, she shows how a play aesthetic can open temporary, in-between spaces that resist dominant narratives and create experimental sites of co-creation. Her work explores how play can unsettle hierarchies and expand what can be collectively imagined and enacted.

Dr Neelambari Phalkey - Artist and Researcher India and United Kingdom. Neelambari investigates the climate crisis through painting, photography, film and sound. She merges her background in human geography and environmental science to develop ecological listening — attuning to rhythms and entanglements that data cannot convey. Her work invites more-than-verbal ways of knowing and cultivates shared imagination toward sustainable futures.

Alan McFetridge - Artist and Founder, Centre for Ecological Philosophy (CEP) Alan will present projects where image-making functions as inquiry, combining photography, field notes and conversation to unsettle extractive ways of seeing and to cultivate ecological imaginaries. His work includes documenting climate and fire, and a Covid-era project that engaged six unemployed young people aged 18 to 25 in creative collaboration, exploring art as both inquiry and infrastructure for care.

Together, these four approaches demonstrate how collective making can become infrastructure, weaving art, economy and ecology into practices of care, attention and imagination.

How to Join

Liviana 2025 Panel Discussion Economies: Reimagining Power and Futures — Arts-Based, Process-Oriented Ways of Making Worlds Thursday 13 November 2025New York 07:00 | Buenos Aires 08:00 | London 11:00 | Amsterdam 12:00 | Nairobi 14:00 | Bangkok 18:00 | Warrane-Sydney 22:00 | Aotearoa-NZ 00:00Online, hosted by the Community Economies Research Network (CERN)

For full details and registration, visit:https://sites.google.com/view/liviana2025/program-registration/session-9-2