Field-stations for the Future are sites of civic infrastructure, established for place-based engagement and experimentation. They bring together multiple communities – most importantly: Local citizens, universities, schools, environmental groups, regenerative entrepreneurs, and regional or city governments.
They are designed to amplify agency, to re-imagine, remake and construct transformative pathways to regenerative futures.
As a response to the urgent, apparently overwhelming, challenge of repairing planetary life-systems, these field-stations should sit along side historically supported civic institutions, long accepted as essential institutions of a thriving civic existence. They are as important to civic life as are libraries, schools, health centres, art-galleries, parks and community centres.
As an extended outpost of schools and universities, Field-stations for the Future generate and disseminate critical new knowledge, from collaborative research, experimentation and prototyping of possible new economic, technical, social, and ecological systems for more-than-human futures.
These Field-stations aim to restore community health, building social agency, providing sustenance for body and mind, reducing eco-anxiety and cynicism. They become a nexus for the growth of regenerative social networks.
Museums have a long history as a feature of our social existence. They derive their scientific value from the preservation and analysis of historical artefacts. Much of their social value stems from their display of conditions from ‘then’ that can be comprehended in contrast to the ‘now’ inhabited their visitors. Field-stations of the Future exist to develop and demonstrate possible regenerative future conditions. Their creative power derives from the contrast those of all that emerges from this exploration with the reality of today’s de-generate systems.
Parks and zoos are created to provide a to experience and celebrate nature as our urbanised existence
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