Interview with trans artist Ada M. Patterson (b. 1994, Bridgetown) based between Barbados, London and Rotterdam. She works with masquerade, performance, poetry, textiles and video, looking at the ways storytelling can limit, enable, complicate or abolish identity formation.

This afterword for Tanja Beer’s book Ecoscenography reflects on the notion of ‘celebration’ as replacing ‘production’ in scenographic work cycles. The question I now ask is not why ecologically grounded scenographic practice should be embraced, but rather how.

For the Design Studio for Social Intervention, I consider ‘justice scenographics’ to offer a model for speculating renewed human-world relations based on a climate ceiling model of economics.