The project investigates the CEO of a deep-sea mining company, and an architect building a floating city; two figures who claim that their work will protect the planet from climate catastrophe. The project investigates the threat posed by these men and their fictions of salvation. It is unlikely that resource extraction can occur within ethical ecological and social constraints; but through moral alibis and sweet nothings the frontierists will sustain.

Give it Arrest is a design for direct action, to ‘tell the truth’ on Extinction Rebellion’s flawed theory of social change. While their use of theatrical mass arrest may have successfully declared the emergency, we still need to avert it. All too often protests fade away but the climate crisis will not. Without the time to wait for another movement, how should Extinction Rebellion evolve?