Experience our shared future and help retell life stories of a post-climate world. Let’s change the climate crisis narrative.

Our methods follow current decolonized research that highlights how modes of artistic production (including literature, art, and creative media production) drive innovative research. Our team looks to relational, reflexive, and recursive exchanges through meaningful dialogue about creative solutions. Such creative endeavours drive forecasting research by providing environments for contemplative reflection. 

Similarly, curated exhibitions can stimulate meaningful dialogue. When creative arts resemble the natural world, these representations of the evocative uncanny can shape our impressions or implicit preferences. Creative explosions that reflect natural patterns facilitate human sensemaking to play with everyday information environments. Creative instincts may also follow other adaptive aesthetics like an appreciation of bodies (for reproduction), high status (for security), and appealing landscapes (for safety).

Creative and imagined climate solutions deserve research attention. Speculative prototypes for prefigurative technologies are often developed in literature and art. STEM and innovation have long drawn from science fiction, like Star Trek's “flip phones” or the Jetson's “maid” as live-in Roomba. Humanity must begin designing adaptation ecosystems where technological proxies function in place of the interconnected web of ecological conditions.

MANUFACTURED ECOSYSTEMS imagine climate adaptation solutions that mimic our natural ecologies. Often referred to as biomimicry and bio-inspired design, these processes and products of intense innovation and artistic creativity catalyze, reinforce, or replace ecosystems by devising technological proxies and other practical solutions for a coming ecological collapse.

MANUFACTURED ECOSYSTEMS change climate crisis narratives by welcoming people to share experiences of complete adaptation strategies—this takes form in virtual and live performances and exhibitions that feature real and imagined climate futures–technologies that replace ecosystems for survival in a post-climate world.  

This research enterprise presents here four straightforward goals: (1) to curate an open-access database of technological proxies; (2) to consider creative arts that imagine technological solutions not-yet-developed; (3) to curate real & virtual experiences for public consumption; & (4) to collect reflections of people’s subsequent experiences.

The earth nears its capacity limits; the UN gives humanity twelve years to act. MANUFACTURED ECOSYSTEMS readjust everyday conversations about climate futures. By estimating and imagining frontiers for how to work together, we devise climate actions and anticipate nature-inspired technological solutions to change how we talk about the climate.