Mandala for the Future
A Participatory Performance by Amanda Hansavathy and Cassidy Conway Cole at the Royal College of Art
What does a future ceremony look like, one rooted in care and creation rather than loss?
With Mandala for the Future, we invited our community to build a living mandala together, offering seeds, soil, and intention to the earth as artists, humans, and stewards. This was a ritual of regeneration, a way to explore our deep, inner connection to nature. When we focus on connection, boundaries dissolve. It becomes we. And we need each other to survive.
Inspired by the cyclical form of mandalas, Mandala for the Future invites a ritual of regeneration. The ceremony begins with grounding offerings such as soil, seeds, water, and found objects from the earth, transforming creation into a shared act of care. Our ancestral repetitive patterns are de-centred, with irregular shapes and sizes into the spiral. We grow intentionally imperfect, because progress isn’t perfect, and embracing the messiness is how we move forward.
In the end, all materials are redistributed or returned to the earth, completing the cycle.
(Thank you to SustainLabRCA and everyone who co-created this collective ritual with us. Let’s keep imagining, planting, and committing to building different futures)
Yellow Brick Road to Thamesis
This workshop by Amanda Hansavathy (Van Der Helm), Maria Bacha, Yoichi Ishida and Vashti Cassinelli was in collaboration with Wandsworth Council, Royal College of Art, St Mary’s Primary School in Battersea and New Covent Garden Market. It explored the layers of migration to the area and how we are ultimately connected to the River Thames and the world around us.
Weaving Spaces
RCA Spatial Values public art project in collaboration with Royal College of Art
Fosters+Fosters, Wandsworth Council and Build Hollywood.
Exhibition with Max Adams, Rut Blees Luxembourg, Yoichi Ishida, Dora Grabkowska,
Chang Zhang, Alexander Van Der Byl, Julia Bohle and Ziwu.
Innovative work in the corporate sector:
Amanda Hansavathy was a case study for Euler Hermes (now Allianz Trade) and the Chartered Insurance Institute.
Amanda Hansavathy worked with CEOs within the Allianz group to explore innovative ideas for improving underwriting practices.
