The Sustainable Travel Agency

 

The Sustainable Travel Agency is a pop-up travel shop and participatory audio installation. 

Embracing the personalised customer service and warm nostalgia of 90’s travel agencies, The Sustainable Travel Agency explores climate grief, environmental anxiety, eco ablism, denial, personal/corporate action and the care required to begin to engage with the messy, complex and terrifying subject.

 

When was the last time you had a break? I think we could all do with one. Between national strikes, the cost of living crisis and the environmental apocalypse, it feels like we’ve got a lot on at the moment. Just a lot of pressure to do the right thing, be responsible, don’t make a mess.

A couple of years ago Jeff Bezos went on holiday in space for 11 minutes. In that time he created the same amount of carbon emissions as the average person across the world creates in 10.5 years. More than the lowest billon carbon emitters would in their lifetime.

All of this is to say, sit down would you. Give yourself a moment, I think you deserve a rest. Even if it’s just for 11 minutes.

HOT DEALS! Current available audio holidays include:

The Personal Touch: a luxury hotel get away (served with soda water & olives on a stick)

Lying in the Heat: a sunny beach excursion (served with a Virgin Sunrise mocktail & raspberry

The Global Express: a runaway train ride (served with a Lemon Drop Martini mocktail)

 

The Sustainable Travel Agency is a project in development, presented with support from SICK! Festival (2024) and HOME (2025). A scratch version of the project was hosted in Longsight Arts Space (2023), funded by Islington Mill WEAVE – investment from Northern Powerhouse (formerly EU European Regional Development Fund). 

Set Design: Lowri Evans/Jen Holt Wright, using recycled or reusable set. Graphic Design & Tech: Lisa Mattocks. Audio holidays inspired by conversations with the local community.