Hilary Powell is an artist working across multiple methods of ‘thinking through making’ to create and invite others into joyful, anarchic visions of possibility. Together with Dan Edelstyn she is co-founder and director of Optimistic cic. They make art and film and music and books, working with solar technology and sunflowers, printing money and setting off explosions – whatever is needed to create contagious stories of people powered action on the crises of our time. Recent work includes a ‘Bank Job’ setting up a rebel bank HSCB (Hoe Street Central Bank), printing banknotes and bonds and cancelling and literally exploding £1.2 Million of local debt. Now, they are working on social/imagination infrastructure – building a renewable POWER STATION challenging economic narratives to create creative practices and communities of abundance.