Forest Futurities Institute is a transdisciplinary platform for research, pedagogy, and artistic collaboration that begins from living forests. Grounded in listening to and learning from tropical forests marked by colonization, deforestation, war, and extraction, it works in response to the ongoing destruction of forest worlds and the communities who defend them.

The institute centers Indigenous epistemologies and non‑extractive research in the environmental humanities, environmental sciences, experimental poetics, and listening practices to repair relations with living forests and cultivate resurgent, decolonial forest futures. Working throughout the global tropics, Forest Futurities collaborates with forest defenders—Indigenous and local communities, creative practitioners, and scholars—to reclaim forest languages, repair ruptured relations, and orient collective responses toward decolonized co‑futures with forests.

Forest Futurities partners with universities, research centers, Indigenous organizations, arts institutions, and environmental groups, using these collaborations as institutional and fiscal homes while maintaining the institute as a conceptual and curatorial anchor. Across its work, the institute refuses extractive conservation logics and centers Indigenous leadership, experimental poetics, and collaborative methods for imagining and enacting living forest futures.