Temperate old growth
North Forest
58.212° N / 15.641° E
Forest age
410 y
Listening nodes
28
Protected area
31 km²
A thirty-square-kilometre field station tracing canopy change, soil intelligence, and the acoustic life of a forest left to become old.
The land
remembers.
A field institute for landscapes older than language—working across ecology, culture, and the long horizon.
What changes
when the project
is allowed to
outlive us?
THEN / 001
Most environmental work is framed by deadlines. We begin with inheritance: what a place has carried, what a generation can repair, and what must be left unfinished.
Our field stations bring ecologists, artists, local custodians, and long-term data into one living practice.
03
1,000
74
∞
Three places.
One
unfinished
practice.
These are not project sites. They are lasting relationships with landscapes that will continue changing long after the first questions have disappeared.
A record that
remains alive.
The archive holds specimens, weather, sound, images, and decisions together—so future observers inherit context, not isolated data.
01
BIO / 00218
Sphagnum fallax
Living specimen
Carbon Fen / 14.09.26
02
ATM / 00074
Weather cast 74
Atmospheric record
North Forest / 05:42
03
GEO / 01391
Basalt memory
Material core
Stone Coast / Layer 06
04
ACO / 00411
Dawn chorus
Acoustic field
North Forest / 17 species
Field cycle / 27
Art / science / stewardship
Spend a
season at the
pace of a
place.
The THEN fellowship supports researchers, artists, writers, and land practitioners whose work needs duration, field proximity, and exchange across disciplines.
Duration
Field
North Forest
Next cycle
Spring 2027
Enter the field.
Leave the ending
open.
Follow the current field cycle, visit a listening session, or begin a long-horizon partnership with the institute.