The other day we launched The Quiet Enchanting, a mythical frieze that wraps around the facade of Bush House on the newly pedestrianised Strand.

The Quiet Enchanting is a continuous narrative that knits past, present and future together to tell a tale of transformation from mass disillusionment with the status quo, to a collective rewilding of the soul, and city.

At the launch event, there were speeches from Director of King’s Culture Beatrice Pembroke, Director of the centre for Climate Governance and Law Megan Bowman, and Superflux Co-founder Anab Jain, each touching on the importance of active hope in times of ecological and humanitarian crisis.

Beatrice spoke of King’s Culture’s place in ‘addressing the huge ecological devastation we are confronted with’, and how imagination can ‘create a space for possibility, hope and action’.

Anab reaffirmed this sentiment, adding ‘As storytellers, as speculators, we are in a position to do this work of seeding and worlding plural narratives that ignite a sense of hope and possibility.’

And Megan inspired us with a powerful invitation to love the earth: ‘You do crazy things when you are love, you’ll go to great lengths to protect who you love…we need the brightest, bravest, people who love this planet to mobilise. And that gives me hope’.

Megan’s words echoed one of the questions that makes up The Quiet Enchanting: ‘How would we act if we loved the earth as much as the earth loves us?

Photo © Jo Mieszkowski