Our Better Future

Our Better Future is a participatory installation that explores peace, resilience, and the possibility of shared futures through collective imagination. The work invites participants to create symbolic paper planes carrying short texts, wishes, or reflections, forming a suspended field of individual voices gathered into a shared visual space. Through this simple, tactile gesture, personal thoughts expand into a collective language shaped by care, uncertainty, and hope.

The installation encourages intergenerational participation, allowing children, adults, and families to reflect on futures at different scales, from the intimate and personal to the social and planetary. Rather than proposing a fixed vision, Our Better Future remains open and evolving, changing with each new contribution. The work frames the future as something actively imagined and built through dialogue and shared responsibility.

The first participatory workshops, during which the paper planes were created by members of the public, were realised with the support of New Vic Borderlines. Following this initial phase, the installation was integrated into the scenographic environment of the docudrama Voices From, directed by Susan Moffat, and presented at New Vic Theatre. Within this context, the work functioned as a shared visual and conceptual space rather than as a narrative element of the performance.

Photographs: © New Vic Borderlines and Yuliia Holovatiuk-Ungureanu Photographer: Badger Badger Media and Yuliia Holovatiuk-Ungureanu