A nautical exercise in collective agency.

Part community strengthening, part collective art, RAFTS was a one-day boat building event where a raft was designed, assembled, floated, and torn apart.

Coming from a desire to create while the world is burning, or choose what burning we do ourselves, RAFTS was a way for people to come together and see the fruits of their labour result in a beautiful, functional object, exercising agency in a world that can seem so out-of-control.

At the end of the day, a fire was set on the raft and participants chose items either brought to the event or created over the course of the day were burnt in the fire. Creation and destruction entirely in our hands.