Justice Scenographics: Preparing for civilization change in a time of ‘Anywheres’ and ‘Somewheres’

Design Studio for Social Intervention, 2020

In this chapter I offer a model for speculating renewed human-world relations based on a climate ceiling model of economics. Framed by the anywhere-somewhere dichotomy, the aim is to consider the role scenographic practices might play to reconceptualising the orthodoxy of ‘world as resource’ to ‘world as connectivity’. In Beyond Scenography (2019), I argued for a renewed distinction between ‘scenography’ – as the crafting of material and technological stagecrafts (costume, lighting, sound and scenery) that sustain staged atmospheres