From a storytelling bus to a research caravan

Future My Love – The Venus Project Taxi from Sonja Henrici on Vimeo.

When I was working at @demos, we proposed that hairdressers should be brought in to advise policy. It was a classic @demos proposal – a blend of human-centred research and savvy buzzword generator. The elder statesman of think tanks, @thersaorg also looked to another touchpoint many of us share – the taxi driver – to help them change their behaviours when it came to fuel consumption as a way of saving money.

At our Transeuropa Festival, we put on a storytelling bus between Brixton Village and Brick Lane as part of our treasure hunt, so that people could see the environments change before their eyes as they discovered the hidden stories of the neighbourhoods we passed through.

With our work on Transnational Dialogues, we held a research caravan to create conversations between artists from different cultures between Europe and China.