{"id":78823,"date":"2025-12-19T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T17:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/blagi\/?p=78823"},"modified":"2025-12-19T12:05:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T17:05:11","slug":"call-for-participation-ecological-futures-lab-navigating-by-new-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/blagi\/archives\/78823","title":{"rendered":"Call for Participation\u2014Ecological Futures Lab: Navigating by New Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>A special track at ISEA2026 Dubai organized by the Land Art Generator Initiative &#038; Zayed University<\/h2>\n<p>DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: February 2, 2026<br \/>\nEVENT DATES: April 10\u201312, 2026<\/p>\n<p>The Ecological Futures Lab: Navigating by New Stars is a living environment inside ISEA2026 \u2014 part open studio, part observatory, part commons for ecological imagination.<\/br><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"background-color: #2271b1; border: none; color: white; padding: 15px 32px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; font-size: 16px; display: inline-block; margin: 25px 2px 4px 2px; cursor: pointer;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/isea-2026.isea-international.org\/special-tracks\/#%3C!--%20FAQ%2002%20--%3E:~:text=Ecological%20Futures%20Lab%3A%20Navigating%20by%20New%20Stars\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: white; font-weight: bold;\">Learn More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Across three days, artists, designers, architects, researchers, technologists, and community practitioners are invited to sketch, prototype, and debate pathways toward regenerative futures.<br \/>\nInstead of formal paper sessions, the Lab is an evolving space where dialogues, drawings, models, and data experiments accumulate over time. Participants \u201cnavigate by new stars\u201d: connecting place, data, and identity to explore how creative practice can transform energy systems, material cultures, and regenerative futures.<\/p>\n<p>The Ecological Futures Lab is a special track aligned with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/advertorial\/2025\/12\/16\/ideas-to-move-across-borders-at-isea2026\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ISEA2026 theme ELYAH: Constellating Place, Data, and Identity<\/a>, and the subtheme Eco-Tech Futures \u2013 Ecologies of Place.<\/p>\n<p>Participants orient themselves within overlapping crises of climate change, energy transition, environmental challenges, and social transformation.<\/p>\n<p>The Lab will also serve as a pilot for the Zayed Centre for Imagination and Ecological Futures, a UAE-based hub for transdisciplinary research in art, design, and sustainability currently being conceptualized. Insights from the Lab will inform the Centre\u2019s roadmap and future programming.<\/p>\n<p>We invite proposals from practitioners and researchers who wish to co-shape this space at ISEA2026.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"background-color: #2271b1; border: none; color: white; padding: 15px 32px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; font-size: 16px; display: inline-block; margin: 25px 2px 4px 2px; cursor: pointer;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/isea-2026.isea-international.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ISEA2026_ST_Ecologocial-Futures-Lab.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: white; font-weight: bold;\">Download the PDF<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>WHAT WE&#8217;RE LOOKING FOR<\/h3>\n<p>We welcome proposals from individuals and small teams whose work sits at the intersection of art, design, architecture, technology, and regeneration.<\/p>\n<p>Concepts for site-specific ecological artworks<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>regenerative or biomimetic design<\/li>\n<li>speculative and critical design practices<\/li>\n<li>environmental solutions as public art experiences and design objects<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Technology, data, and computation<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>sensing ecologies; environmental monitoring<\/li>\n<li>machine learning for ecological progress data visualization<\/li>\n<li>data aesthetics tied to local ecologies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ecology, climate, and energy transition<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>climate adaptation and mitigation practices<\/li>\n<li>circular material systems, ecological economics, and LCA-informed work<\/li>\n<li>community-scale energy and water infrastructures<\/li>\n<li>electrostate roadmap and the material benefits of a regenerative economy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Social practice and community co-creation<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>participatory design, indigenous knowledge, and local governance<\/li>\n<li>design process grounded in specific places, climates, and communities<\/li>\n<li>storytelling methods that bridge lived experience and data<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><H3>MODES OF PARTICIPATION<\/H3><\/p>\n<h5>Process &#038; Prototypes<\/h5>\n<p>Bring an existing or in-progress project that can be activated in the Lab through:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>small-scale prototypes or models<\/li>\n<li>process demonstrations<\/li>\n<li>ongoing \u201clive\u201d work sessions (drawing, coding, building, mapping)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Ecological Methods &#038; Tools<\/h5>\n<p>Share methods that others can try in the Lab, such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>sensing and data-gathering protocols<\/li>\n<li>participatory mapping, systems-diagramming, or speculative scenario tools<\/li>\n<li>frameworks for regenerative design, circularity, ecological accounting or currency<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Listening Sessions &#038; Conversational Constellations<\/h5>\n<p>Host a listening session or facilitated conversation that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>gathers stories from other delegates and local communities<\/li>\n<li>surfaces tensions and blind spots in ecological futures work<\/li>\n<li>is oriented toward deep listening<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Regenerative Materials Library Contributions<\/h5>\n<p>Propose a contribution to the Regenerative Materials Library, that will be permanently housed at Zayed University after ISEA2026. This could include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>samples of materials, components, or assemblies<\/li>\n<li>detailed case studies documenting regenerative material systems<\/li>\n<li>speculative or prototypical materials framed with clear ecological rationale<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Data &#038; Story Experiments<\/h5>\n<p>Propose a small experiment that explores \u201cData as Ecology\u201d:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>translating environmental data into sound, image, movement, or narrative<\/li>\n<li>rethinking big data and AI systems as part of biospheric information flows<\/li>\n<li>applying lessons from natural information systems (e.g. mycelial networks) to human systems<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A special track at ISEA2026 Dubai organized by the Land Art Generator Initiative &#038; Zayed University DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: February [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":78826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[102,235,233,99,442,406,69],"tags":[111,28,452,112,127],"class_list":["post-78823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-architecture","category-arts","category-culture","category-infrastructure","category-policy","category-project-based-learning","category-renewable-energy-public-art","tag-land-art-generator-initiative","tag-public-art","tag-regenerative-art","tag-renewable-energy","tag-renewables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/blagi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78823"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/blagi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/blagi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/blagi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/blagi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78823"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/blagi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78862,"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/blagi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78823\/revisions\/78862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/blagi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/blagi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/blagi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/blagi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}