Chessa Adsit-Morris is a curriculum theorist and assistant director of the Center for Creative Ecologies housed within the department of the History of Art and Visual Culture at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She writes widely on the intersection of curriculum studies, posthumanism(s), ecological thought and SF, and is the author of “Restorying Environmental Education: Figurations, Fictions, Feral Subjectivities” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). Her current teaching, research and publications focus on transdisciplinary research and pedagogy, with particular reference to visual studies, socially engaged art, science and technology studies, environmental humanities, ecological thought and speculative fiction.
As the Feral Labs Network's Rewilding Cultures programme (2022–2026) comes soon to an end, Makery publishes a series of essays drawn from the 2024 Feral Labs Node Book #2 and the upcoming #3 issue. In this essay Chessa Adsit-Morris takes a look back at the "laboratory turn" in art and culture since the 1960s, ultimately offering a reflection on the Feral Labs network itself.
