The Field Stations of the Future project aligns with my own research through its emphasis on real-world testing of new models and ideas for regenerative futures. It seeks to do this through stimulating a wide taxonomy of prototyping approaches and programs and through its focus on engaging and seeking input, ideas, and intelligence from a wide range of stakeholders to shape and drive the formulation, co-production, and testing of regenerative system-based strategies. This is all conducted within real-world, site-specific contexts.

My own practice has sought to tease out opportunities to engage proactively with users in co-produced and active outcomes for spatial design projects. Digital culture is framed as an opportunity to provoke co-production, as an emergent conversational model, rather than as a passive and consumption-focused reinforcement of existing predetermined assumptions and behaviours.

Working with academic colleague Emeritus Professor Chris Ryan at RMIT, we have sought to develop and test immersive and co-produced research scenarios, within a studio teaching model, to explore and communicate regenerative design prototypes. These explorations have been conducted in real-world settings, with clients from the community and industry, with an aim to challenge existing assumptions and practices and provoke the pursuit and testing of new possibilities. This work aligns with the proposed methodology and ambitions for the Field Stations of the Future network