About Audience Labs

The Lab works with others - artists, theatre makers, scientists, technologists, policy makers and other interdisciplinary collaborators -to make work that imagines sustainable, just and creative visions of the future.

Our current institutions and structures - political, social and cultural - are unsustainable, often actively inflicting damage on the world and its inhabitants. Traditional cultural structures are decomposing in front of us. Many of us feel lost. The problems seem too big, too insurmountable, too complex to engage with. No matter how much information we consume - the answers of who and how we need to be in this age elude us. Sometimes mere survival of humanity in the next 100 years seems impossible. 

So how do we even start to imagine how we thrive? How do we start to imagine what we and our descendants might collectively celebrate? How do we imagine future joy?

Theatre and performance has always been a laboratory for experimentation, imagination and change. Audience Labs makes new forms of culture and stories of imagined worlds for our future descendants. What worlds do we conjure and what futures can we imagine into being? 

The work Audience Labs creates often defies definitions. We create projects telling those stories using all the art and craft humans have built up over millennia and combine those with the scientific insights and technologies we have now.

Audience Labs started at the Royal Opera House but now works for and with different artists, theatres and other organisations at the intersection of culture, innovation and social change.