The Lab:
Ecologies Of
What would it take for civilization
to become ecologically intelligent?
The Lab works to create the circumstances under which it becomes possible to think, feel and act from within living systems.
Ecological intelligence is a condition that can be researched, demonstrated, designed, and cultivated at the scale of individuals, organizations, and civilizations. Ecologies Of is a research lab investigating the conditions under which that capacity emerges.
Which myths need to dissolve, and which need to be seeded?
The Territory
Ecologies Of moves across five interconnected territories of inquiry. Each is approached as a living field to be entered, expanded, and inhabited across disciplines, timeframes, and knowledge systems. The outputs of each inquiry are shaped by who joins it. Art, analysis, new economic models, speculative design, mapping, and methodology are all possible forms.
Interspecies Perception
Regenerative Institutions
Planetary Boundaries
Life-centric Economies
Adaptation
They listened long enough for the present to confess.
Who This is For
Ecologies Of is built around the conviction that these inquiries exceed any single discipline. The lab brings together artists, scientists, organizational designers, mythmakers, futurists, and practitioners working at the edges of their domains. In a unified field they can generate the productive friction that emerges when genuinely different ways of knowing are brought together.
If you are working within these edges and looking for a place where inquiry that conventional institutions cannot hold can take root, we want to hear from you.