‘Already existing’ sustainability experiments: Lessons on water demand, cleanliness practices and climate adaptation from the UK camping music festival

摘要: Abstract Experimentation has become a popular term amongst those interested in fostering more sustainable social futures. But the ways which researchers and policy makers have thought about experimentation generally been with reference to new infrastructural governance conditions. Focusing on intentional interventions downplays capacity for change stemming from peoples’ already existing practices. In this paper, we propose that camping music festival – site continues be seen by some as cultural laboratory attendees try out identities can of ‘already existing’ sustainability experimentation. Drawing 60 interviews personal washing at two festivals UK, explore draw lessons how societies Global North might cope disrupted water supply linked future climate change. Interviewees divulge escaping societal expectations bodily cleanliness pleasurable enjoyment found resurrecting otherwise disappearing skills living without easy access familiar infrastructures. Spending an extended period these infrastructures, enjoying experience, brings into question assumption unwavering consumer need constant is embedded modernist visions ‘Big Water’ systems. Thus, argue research geographies experiments holds potential reimagining mundane, everyday practices within agendas futurity.