Exhibitions
People Powered Prosperity at the London Design Biennale 2025
People Powered Prosperity was presented at the London Design Biennale 2025, held at Somerset House in June as part of the wider programme curated under the theme Surface Reflections by Artistic Director Dr Samuel Ross MBE.
Curated by Professor Henrietta L. Moore, Dr Saffron Woodcraft, Eva Lamorgese, Joseph Cook, and Twinkle Jayakumar, the exhibition explored prosperity as a multidimensional concept shaped by livelihoods, secure environments, democratic participation, healthy cities, and climate-resilient futures. It showcased IGP’s citizen science approach, working directly with trained citizens from diverse communities to generate new forms of knowledge, co-design practical tools, and develop locally grounded pathways for social and environmental transformation. Visitors heard directly from citizen scientists about their research and learned from IGP staff about the innovative tools and metrics developed to support local governments, businesses, and communities in delivering social impact.
Alongside the exhibition, IGP hosted panel discussions on inclusive, community-led innovation and its role in shaping urban futures. These explored themes including women’s safety in public spaces, affordable communal eating spaces, visual rights in the city, social entrepreneurship, and inclusive urban design. Together, the exhibition and events demonstrated how participatory research and creative engagement can unlock local knowledge and position design as a powerful tool for justice, regeneration, and shared prosperity.
People Powered Prosperity was be on public display at UCL East in 2026, further information here.
Vital Lebanon: Capacities of people, capacities of cities
Vital Lebanon showcased the work of the former RELIEF Centre as it transitioned into PROCOL Lebanon. The exhibition explored how communities in Lebanon build livelihoods, resilience, and forms of prosperity amid uncertainty.
Centred around the themes of uncertainty, sociality, and vitality, the exhibition reframed uncertainty as a space of possibility, highlighted the importance of collaboration and social connection, and recognised vitality as the energy through which communities adapt, endure, and imagine new futures. Together, these themes offered fresh insight into the creative and practical ways people sustain life in volatile urban contexts. Find out more about the exhibition here.
Sharing Prosperity: An interactive gaming experience for the Barbican’s Our Time on Earth exhibition
Created by the IGP in collaboration with studio DVTK and Kim Boutin, Sharing Prosperity is an interactive gaming experience that imagines what a relational economy could look and feel like in 2040. The game was presented in the Imagine section of the Barbican Centre’s Our Time on Earth exhibition from May to August 2022, which welcomed more than 200,000 visitors. It was later shown at the Musée de la civilisation in Quebec City, Canada, from June to December 2023, before continuing its international tour.
In Sharing Prosperity, players choose from seven abstract characters inspired by nature — such as a tree, river, mountain, or glacier — and move through an immersive world collecting resources, learning about their properties, and building a balanced solidarity chain. Through play, the experience explores how radical solidarity, collaboration, and shared wealth across species could support planetary flourishing. Find out more about the exhibition here and read The Bartlett Review here.
Character Selector: “Swipe to select your Character” Representing: Mountain, Bird, Human, Glacier, River, Fungi, and Tree.
Images © DVTK
Provocations by Prof. Henrietta L. Moore.