Rachel Jacobs is an award winning artist, researcher, creative educator, consultant and interactive designer. Her socially and environmentally engaged artworks have toured nationally and internationally. Rachel is lead artist on the 30 year arts/research project ‘Future Machine & When the Future Comes‘, that takes place in five curious places across England, at the same time every year as the seasons change, is part of the The Commons Residency Project, an arts, ecology and music residency in Finsbury Park, and is a resident artist at Primary in Nottingham.

She co-founded the artist-led collective Active Ingredient in 1996 and the commercial games company Mudlark Production Company in 2007. She co-produced a series of British-Brazilian projects in collaboration with Mobilefest and artist/curator Silvia Leal between 2007-2017, travelling regularly to Brazil to work with schools, artists, botanists and in the Mata Atlantica.

Rachel is also an Associate Researcher at Horizon Digital Economy, University of Nottingham since 2018, where she completed a Doctorate in Computer Science in 2014 and was a Research Fellow at Horizon Digital Economy 2017-2018, Visiting Research Fellow at Central St Martins, UAL (2019-2022) and An Associate Lecturer at Birkbeck College (2023). She publishes and presents regularly in academic and arts contexts.

Rachel facilitates imaginative and innovative workshops that help us imagine positive futures in response to climate and environmental change, in universities, schools and community groups. She is looking for new commissions and research projects and is available to run workshops in all kinds of contexts.