Blue Lab

Launched in 2021 and led by Professor Allison Carruth, Blue Lab is an environmental research, storytelling and art group. Their multidisciplinary team investigates and creates original stories and creative projects and lived experiences of large-scale environmental challenges — from climate change and green energy to multispecies justice and food and water futures.

In this work, they bridge the tools of art and science, research and creative practice, historical knowledge and speculative imagination. Their animating question is how different people make sense of real-time environmental change (and in some cases catastrophic loss) in relationship to intergenerational memories of and future aspirations for the places they love, value and call home.

The team on this project is made up of Allison Carruth, Barron Bixler, Jayme Collins, and Nate Otjen.