'What does climate change look like to you?' Bow Arts & V&A East invite you to join multi-disciplinary artist Mo Langmuir in an interactive and collaborative workshop diving into this question and create a fabric 'parachute' map to reflect local history - all materials are provided!

In this workshop, Mo will work with you to explore materials that relate to the environment, sustainability, and east London's history, exploring objects from the V&A's collection and maps of our local area. You will have the chance to collaborate with Mo and other workshop participants to create a fabric 'parachute' map made of lots of smaller diamond shapes, connecting with local textile industries as a nod to east London's rag trade.

This is an interactive and collaborative workshop with plenty of time for conversation and discussion, as well as more hands-on activities and group exercises.

All materials are provided, no prior direct experience is necessary!

Please note there will be photography taken at this event for Bow Arts and V&A East's internal reporting and for sharing in print and social media.

This event will take place at the V&A East Storehouse, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Stratford, London, E20 2ST.

This event is cu-curated by Wan Yi Sandra Lam, Curator: Programmes & Engagement at Bow Arts and Sara Ismail, Learning Producer at V&A East.

Free - Tickets must be booked to guarantee your place!

More about Mo Langmuir

Mo Langmuir is a multi-disciplinary practitioner using social art to explore being human on a shared planet. Informed by a background in environmental biology, her practice responds to the so-called Enlightenment, a time when Western thinking separated humans from nature, art from science and the body from the mind. Mo often works with the formats and tools that were used to facilitate these ideological separations, such as mapping and museology, towards pluralising and re-enchanting the scientific with the hyperlocal, through critical engagement and exploration. Mo has won support from Akademie Schloss Solitude, Arts Council England, Climate Art, DEFRA, Makerversity, Near Now, University of Nottingham and The Institute for Art and Innovation. Past collaborations include Chaos Magic, Ignite Futures!, FOSAC [Festival of Science and Curiosity], NGFP [Nottingham Good Food Partnership], Public Lab for Open Technology and Science, Rye’s Own, Sussex Wildlife Trust and The Urban Room. Langmuir was born and is based in London, working internationally on a project basis.

More about V&A East

V&A East is dedicated to creative opportunity and its power to bring change. Two free cultural destinations – V&A East Storehouse, which opens on 31 May 2025, and V&A East Museum, scheduled to open in spring 2026 – will open up the V&A collection for all, celebrate making in all its forms and create new possibilities for everyone.

Access information

If you have any questions regarding accessibility at this event or would like to make us aware of any access requirements that you have in advance of visiting, please email Sara s.ismail@vam.ac.uk

Access requirements could include things like providing equipment, services or support (e.g. information in Easy Read, speech to text software, additional 1:1 support), adjusting workshop timings (e.g. more break times), adjustments to the event space (e.g. making sure you have a table near the entrance) or anything else you can think of!

About the East London Art Prize Events Programme

The East London Art Prize events programme is a dynamic, free public programme open to all, which builds on the Prize’s ethos of providing ongoing support, development, and networking opportunities for artists in east London and beyond.

Featuring a constellation of workshops, talks, panels, lates, socials, labs, walks, and takeovers in collaboration with our Prize partners and featuring some familiar faces from our shortlist of 12 fantastic artists, this year’s events programme celebrates and pays homage to the huge abundance of talent and creativity nestled in east London.

These events have been developed by Wan Yi Sandra Lam, Curator: Programmes & Engagement at Bow Arts in collaboration with our Prize partners the British Council, The Line, London College of Fashion (LCF), London Legacy Development Corporation, University College London (UCL), V&A East, Whitechapel Gallery and Dulux.

Find out more about the wider programme here.

More about the East London Art Prize

The East London Art Prize is an all-media art prize designed to showcase the talent of artists working and living in east London, with an accompanying event programme supporting artists’ careers and opportunities. The Prize is generously funded by Minerva and Prue MacLeod. Find out more on the Prize webpage here.