Things We Don't Know Yet

Things We Don't Know Yet was a commissioned project for gentle/radical in Cardiff, Wales.

Between Spring and Autumn 2023, I made visits to Riverside, in Cardiff, inviting one-on-one and group conversation with people living and working in the neighbourhood. Meeting in peoples’ homes, cafes, community centres, in parks, and walking through the streets, I spent time talking to Riverside residents about what they know, and, conversely, what they don’t know.

Between Autumn 2023 and February 2024, with the help of those residents who have gathered around the project and designer Oliver Norcott, I developed a pack of cards called 'Things We Don’t Know Yet'.

The aim of the cards is to help us gather more comfortably around questions of not knowing, to stay with the trouble of things we don’t know, in these times of encroaching darkness. The cards have their roots in Riverside and, as such, are focused on holding space for diverse groups of people around a set of broadly universal questions facing humanity, but can be used flexibly as meditation prompts, at home around the dinner table, in community spaces, office meeting rooms or in a clearing in the woods.

The cards were launched and given to contributors in February 2024.

gentle/radical are a Cardiff-based organisation rooted in the neighbourhood of Riverside, and interested in how the work of culture, creativity, spirituality, hospitality and solidarity can be in service to community building in our times.