Design futures research at the intersection of speculative practice and systems-level change has brought us both to the Field Stations for the Future network. At the Institute for Creative Futures (Loughborough) and RCA’s Becoming Regenerative project, we explore how design can catalyse regenerative transitions — not merely through products or services, but through situated, place-based practices that build lasting capacity for transformation.

FSF resonates with our shared conviction that meaningful change requires context: real places, real communities, and sustained engagement over time. The network’s model — prototyping in niche sites, co-producing knowledge across disciplines, and connecting local experiments to global learning — reflects the methodological commitments central to both our practices. We are eager to contribute design research tools and futures methodologies that can help field stations become generative laboratories for the regenerative futures we collectively need.