The Clearing is a collaborative artwork by Alex Hartley and Tom James, which set out to build a radical vision of the future in the grounds of Compton Verney Art Gallery & Park – a quintessential English picturesque landscape designed by Lancelot Capability Brown.

The Clearing is a participatory durational project centred around a geodesic dome built into a bank of the lake as a social space and encampment that generated and nurtured the The Clearing Community. The visitor to the encampment was invited to learn how to live in the world affected by both the social and climate changes that are coming our way. Volunteer caretakers occupied and lived in the dome throughout its first year, and The Clearing hosted a series of radical workshops and gatherings that shared knowledge of how to make fire, construct a radio, consider democracy, deliver a baby, build a compost toilet, read the stars, and learn how to die in the future.

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