The Future Field Station is a traveling sculptural structure that holds objects and stories from Americans thinking about the natural world. It aims to offer a shared civic structure for orientation to planetary futures. It exists in dialogue: collecting stories rather than monologuing.

Important conversations about care, grief, and the future are too often confined to galleries and universities when they need to happen in libraries, community centers, and everyday civic spaces. The Future Field Station aims to offer a dialogue, an exciting traveling exhibition, and a connective record. It will travel to national parks, universities, libraries, and art spaces, creating a space for dialogue and reflection. With its focus on environmental consciousness, storytelling, and meaningful dialogue, the Station unfolds into an ethereal, invitingly alien environment. Inside are objects that are thick—objects have been interacted with and thought about but are not necessarily finished products. Each object is paired with sound archives of interviews, which are accessible online.

The Station is slightly out of time. It offers a mood more than a message. A space for noticing things we don't always appreciate that we have.

This project is currently in ideation with Dr. Ben Mylius (Philosophy) and Julia Lu (Architecture & Design). We have built a prototype and are looking for funding to begin curating and showing.