We’re deep in the archives, constructing a timeline of Platform’s 40 years of arts and organising. We’ll be adding to this timeline over the next year, and drawing out provocations for social transformations taking place today. In 2025, we’ll launch a public programme of events activating the legacies of climate justice movements.

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Supported striking domestic cleaners at Addenbrookes Hospital through research, agitprop theatre and demonstrations.

Investigated London as an organism over ten weeks in a mobile tent, with an exhibition at the Royal Festival Hall.

A month of actions, walks, talks and art-interventions to un-bury the Fleet, Walbrook, Effra and Wandle rivers in central London.

Delta revived London’s River Wandle through the installation of a micro-hydro turbine and church bell rung by tidal power. The project was opened with an outdoor music performance on the river bank, and later used a micro-hydro turbine to power a local school.

”How is it possible for people in London to feel human connections with the people around the world producing what London consumes?”

Following the journey of a lightbulb across a continent, Homeland questioned London and Londoners’ place in transnational trade, connecting consumers to producers and revealing a complex web or relationships between home and elsewhere.

A collaboration with London International Festival of Theatre.

Sustainable energy schemes in London.

Thousands of commuter newspapers challenging Londoners about the impacts of this oil city on the rest of the world.

Pedal-propelled, solar-powered cinema on a bike travels from London to Bristol.

Personal stories, guided walks and music exploring the complex web of organisations supporting London’s oil giants Shell and BP.

Over a decade spent mapping out the network of relationships between oil and gas companies, government departments, regulators, banks and cultural institutions.

Our campaign against the Royal Bank of Scotland targeted private bank financing of harmful fossil fuel projects, while Fossil Free Culture project successfully challenged Tate’s promotion of BP’s brand.

Internationally, the Carbon Web helped us work in solidarity with communities fighting against gas pipelines from the Caspian Sea to Italy, BP’s fracking in Argentina, tar sands extraction in Alberta, Canada, the injustices of Shell’s oil exploitation in Nigeria.

A report exposing the capture of university research and teaching by oil corporations. Produced jointly with New Economics Foundation and Corporate Watch.

Day-long performance event involving research, poetry, music, video, discussion and a boat journey – investigating the hidden history of corporations and genocide.

Envisioned the world’s first museum dedicated to the nature and impacts of the transnational corporation .

A groundbreaking book investigating the history and psychology of corporate and bureaucratic killing

A life-size metal bus – a living memorial – to Nigerian writer and activist executed for exposing oil companies’ environmental devastation in the Niger Delta.

Created by artist Sokari Douglas Camp.

An interdisciplinary course on social and ecological justice taught at Birkbeck.