CREATIVE PRACTICE
Ada’s creative practice explores how we sense futures through presence rather than prediction.
Through sound, pattern and ceremony, she creates moments that reconnect us with living systems, pauses that invite reflection, reconnection and renewal.
Each project is an experiment in relational intelligence: listening to ecosystems, transforming data into ritual, and creating spaces where belonging can take root.
Art and leadership are the same practice, ways of listening for what the future is asking of us next.
The Future is Sound: A collaborative project in partnership with The Future is Sound Summit.
A multisensory exploration of regeneration through sound.
We listen not only to music, but to ecosystems, memories and futures. Sound becomes foresight, a way of sensing patterns before they appear.
Through resonance and rhythm, The Future is Sound invited us to remember that every vibration is an act of renewal, tuning leadership, technology and culture back into harmony with the living world.
Entangled Imaginations: Earth Echoes.
A collaborative project with the Friends of the Earth Experiments Team.
An immersive sound art experience inviting communities to listen differently, to their streets, ecosystems and themselves.
Co-created with London Borough of Greenwich residents, Earth Echoes wove field recordings, collective “wisdom walks” and the TERRA Framework into a journey through place.
Participants transformed familiar sounds into portals of presence, discovering how listening sparks collective imagination and restores a sense of belonging to the natural world.
L3b1a: “These people were my relatives, my ancestors.”
A commission for the Temple of Peace Art Project, Hawarden Castle
In response to William Ewart Gladstone’s former sanctuary, Ada created L3b1a, a mapwork tracing her DNA haplogroup (L3b1a) across The Times Atlas (1899) from Egypt to Guyana, where Gladstone family plantations shaped her ancestors’ migration.
Inspired by Octavia E. Butler’s book Kindred and the Nigerian concept of Mbari (art as citizenship), this meditation on ancestry, empire and climate asks how peace and leadership emerge from acknowledgement rather than erasure.
What type of ancestor do you want to be?
Dystopian Dreams, Electronic Graves.
A co-production with Camiel Daamen for IAB Italia 2024.
Co-produced with DJ Camiel Daamen for IAB Italia 2024
An immersive soundscape exploring digital waste and regeneration in the electronic age.
Created for 1,500 participants, this sensory meditation journeys through technology’s afterlife, the circuitry, memory, and minerals that link consciousness to Earth.
Three dreamscapes unfold: collapse, renewal, reimagining a dialogue between code and soil, data and decay.
What if regeneration began with how we listen, to our devices, to the planet, to ourselves?