DESIRE MAPS is an interactive map making performance in which audience members are invited to reimagine the geographical journeys of their ancestors.

A collaboration between PROJEKT EUROPA and Coney together with visual artist and video designer Akhila Krishnan, DESIRE MAPS is an interactive performance looking at migration, climate crisis and the intersection between personal history and global events.

This participatory performance project creates an invitation for audience members to redraw the journeys of their ancestors, step into their shoes and imagine a moment of choice – this way or that? If they could have taken a different route, where would they have gone? And where might they have ended up?

This show is currently in development and will premiere in 2026.

The initial development phase of this project was supported by the National Theatre’s Generate Programme. Subsequent development was co-commissioned by Brighton Festival and supported by Farnham Maltings and Goldsmith’s University.

video by Rocio Chacon, photography by Ewa Emini