Polyglot at P3 Ambika — Nine Earths Summit 2025

In November 2025, I showed new immersive work at the Nine Earths Summit at Ambika P3 in Westminster — a cavernous subterranean exhibition space beneath the University of Westminster that invites scale, experimentation, and ideas that need room to breathe.

The Summit was a two-day event exploring the intersection of neurodiversity, creativity, and the climate emergency, held just one week after the COP30 climate conference. The programme brought together artists, scientists, and climate activists for immersive installations, audio-visual performances, workshops, and talks. I was exhibiting alongside other artists and collectives including D:Fuse and others working at the intersection of art and environmental storytelling.

Polyglot at Room Scale

This was the first time Polyglot had been shown as a fully immersive room-scale environment, and P3's vast underground space was the ideal context. The system deployed random characters from over 300 global writing systems at timed intervals, constructing an evolving field of typographic presence across the walls and floor of the space.

At this scale, the experience shifts. Individual characters become architectural. The accumulation of scripts from distant linguistic traditions — temporarily equalised within a shared visual framework — creates something closer to being inside a living language than observing one. Visitors moved through the space surrounded by the breadth of human written expression, with no single script given dominance over another.

Context and Connection

Showing Polyglot in the context of a climate summit felt apt. The work has always been concerned with linguistic diversity and the preservation of endangered scripts — questions that run parallel to ecological thinking. Just as ecosystems are diminished when species disappear, the human capacity for thought and expression narrows when writing systems die. The Nine Earths Summit made that parallel explicit.

P3 is one of those rare spaces that allows immersive work to be experienced as it's intended — at a scale where the body is fully enclosed within the visual field. I'm grateful to the organisers for the opportunity and for the context they created around it.

Prints derived from distinct temporal states within the Polyglot system are available as limited editions through the Collect page.