Changes in global conditions create changes in the practices of global science. Do we have a means of tracing these interrelations?

How does planetarity and its composition shift under conditions of planetary change?

What happens to our visions of the planetary when everyone has to stay at home, in their little boxes, speaking to other people in little boxes?

At what point does the planetary scale outweigh its own usefulness as a tool for apprehension, discernment, and interpretation?

How do the ways in which planetary thinkers do their work affect how the “planetary” emerges as a concept, and the planet itself (re)emerges as an entity?

How can experiences of planetary ethics, politics and aesthetic be shared, explored and learned from, together?

What would it mean to let go of our planet, such that it might come back to us?

“The Impossibility of a Planet”, by artists and researchers Jeremy Bolen and Jamie Allen, is an ongoing research and media project that seeks out dialogues with people who compose planetary images, thought, narratives, and models.

Does habitability today requires not the building up of more knowledge, but rather the relinquishing, forgetting, or disinheriting of knowledge?

Riots emerge from voices unheard—reflections on Martin Luther King Jr.’s dictum guide us to sites of uprising and industrial toxicity on Turtle Island, a.k.a. North America.

Explorations of suburbia and its “newly urgent legibility” within US political geography blend into personal reflections on modes of living in the St. Louis region and beyond.

Introduction to season 2 of the podcast. The field station finds itself stationed in Berlin, Germany where Abbéy Odunlami sits down with various interlocutors to understand what migration means to this section of the global north.

Cooperation Jackson is an emerging vehicle for sustainable community development, economic democracy, and community ownership. Listen to episode 5 now!

Jared Richardson and Dr. Justin Hosbey grapple with neoliberalism’s effects on Black communities within New Orleans. Listen to episode 3 now!

Talk with Dr. Chelsea Frazier about the importance of Black feminism’s political and artistic engagements with environmentalism. Episode 2 available now!

Abbéy Odunlami and Jared Richardson introduce their individual research projects and discuss Field Station 5’s broader themes. Episode 1 available now!

“Some 300 billion metric tons of coal has been mined globally during the Anthropocene.” An excursion into the orginis of coal by geologist Colin Waters

Andrew Yang speaks about his involvement with the art/research/activism initiative Deep Time Chicago which endeavors to develop a public research trajectory on Anthropocene questions.

Introduction to the work of the landscape curation project The American Bottom by Matthew Fluharty.

Geospatial connections between the themes and research being collected during the project are displayed on an interactive, collaborative map.

A narrative-based podcast that discusses how geography determines many people’s relationship to resources, land, and wellbeing.

The Upper Delta region is shaped by environmental forces of evolving multiracial identities and inherently global economic forces. Field Station 5 explores the spatial dynamics which formed the contemporary identity of this region.

The art initiative Laboratory for a Radical Suburbia explores human connections to both land and to the environmental impacts of capitalist cycles of extraction, production, and consumption on that land.

Historian of science Pietro Daniel Omodeo unpacks spheres from their context in ancient and early modern cosmology and metaphysical doctrine.

Alternative projections of terrain and its technonatural reality are a powerful tool in fictionalizing the existent. Artist Rohini Devasher envisions the space between landscape, recording technology, and their relationship to our planet.

This event series by Deep Time Chicago aims for a scientific and artistic approach to nature which is based on lived experiece.

This micro-publication looks at the city of Chicago as a site of origin for materials, particles, and social relations that define the new geological epoch of the Anthropocene.