Field Stations Program Now Accepting Applications

Are you a student, professional, or creative interested in climate change issues? If your answer is "yes," we invite you to apply for the Field Stations program, taught with our partner Wright-Ingraham Institute happening in June 2022!

Field Stations is an immersive integrative studies workshop that focuses on climate change and related issues in ecologically-critical places. The Wright-Ingraham Institute invites creatives, early-career candidates, and graduate and post-graduate students from all fields, for whom this topic is crucial to their practice, to apply to the 2022 workshop in the San Juan Basin in Colorado and New Mexico, USA. We will be teaching in collaboration with the Wright-Ingraham Institute, and participation is covered by Wright-Ingraham Institute scholarships.

MSI’s Marcie Bidwell (Executive Director) and Wright-Ingraham Institute staff spent weekend in October meeting potential partners in the region for the June 2022 workshop, including the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, Fort Lewis College, Aztec, Farmington, Turtle Lake Refuge, Silverton, and Banded Peaks Ranch in Chromo. Marcie also represented MSI, a Wright-Ingraham Institute grantee, in its recent Design, Ecology & Justice speaker series, speaking from a grantee perspective.

Field Stations workshops are crafted by a socio-environmentally-focused interdisciplinary group of collaborators, many of whom originate from the architecture and design disciplines. We welcome participants who do not have design backgrounds to learn how visual and design modes of thinking can aid their practice. We hope to push design-oriented participants to think beyond human and visual scales to imagine and address issues related to climate change. This workshop asks participants how exchanges between design, arts, humanities and science communities can shift creative and critical practice. The Field Stations program is accepting applications from students, recent graduates, and young professionals from the Four Corners, tribal communities, and diverse backgrounds.

Applications are due February 22 at 11:59 PM MT. For more information and to apply, visit https://wright-ingraham.org/field-stations/.