Vision

Earth Codes Observatory’s vision is of a future world where it will be second nature to consult the collective knowledge of other species, other cultures, global resource sensors and future scenarios, all through the interaction of humans with artificial intelligence — the result will be a planet where species, cultures and resources are regenerative and in balance.

How can we achieve this mission and vision together?

1. Asking, discussing: "What are the timeless Earth codes for regeneration?? Genetic, atomic, magnetic, spiritual, consciousness, gravity, biophysics, frequency, abiosis, prebiosis, etc.?

2. Asking, discussing: "where do we find these codes? Who are the stewards of this information/data? Indigenous, scientists, material scientists, biologists, physicists, etc.??

3. Codifying what we hear from the stewards: from the indigenous, biophysicists, biomimics, etc.

4. Promoting a “data commons” of these codified data.

5. Promoting and convening a community of AI toolmakers to use that data to help us visualize regenerative land use, food systems, architecture, transportation, education, labor, city planning, climate management, fashion, etc.

6. Asking who can create the art (e.g. physical, VR, holographic, laser, video games, AR, movies, games, etc...) which will help humanity collectively envision our shared regenerative future outlined in #5.

7. Launching global projects that promote one or more of the outputs in #6. e.g. VR films, movies, public art, educational curricula, leadership workshops, etc. aimed at the public, corporations, NGO’s, government policy makers, teachers, politicians, religious leaders, city planners, product designers, etc.

Timeline

Earth Codes Observatory launched in March 2020, right as the COVID pandemic began. What started as an experiential art space based within an historic medical library has moved online and into communities.

Phase Four (2023)

Interacting with the changing AI landscape, potential, and stakeholders to implement Earthcodes’ value proposition: stewarding the data that will feed the creation of the immersive tools we always had in mind and more. Gathering experts, receiving first grants to identify, collate, tag and make data available for “regenerative future” tool makers.

Phase Three (2022)

Exploring the role of AI, with the goal of helping humanity imagine a future where AI is a key piece in our own survival. Topics for fellows and content creation included how AI could create potential future scenarios for us to imagine; how it could connect areas of knowledge that humans would be unlikely to make; how it could be used to analyze many kinds of data humans cannot; how it could interact artistically with the developers to involve our senses in transformative, imaginative processes; how output could be on-the-fly VR/AR immersive experiences of future potential scenarios created by end users.

Phase Two (2021)

Tapping developers, programmers, artists, educators, engineers and others to ideate unique content for VR/AR and immersive art-science experiences.  The main content ideation focused on elucidating how the millions of fellow life-forms on the planet have adapted strategies for thriving and how humans can imagine a future employing the same blueprint for architecture, travel, energy use, food production and more — what has been called “biomimicry” (“innovation based on nature” — Janine Benyus — The Biomimicry Institute).  Additional content areas explored included potential “codes” that interact with our biology including music, language, chemistry, physics, psychedelics, animal communication and more, all which may expand the scope of the imaginable realm for our future.

Phase One (2020)

Setting up the 501(c)3 non-profit organization, establishing advisors, renovating physical location.

Background

Earth Codes Observatory’s growing team of board members, fellows, advisors, artists and developers are inspired by the work of Janine Benyus, James Lovelock, Lynn Margulis, Thomas Berry and others working where biology intersects with other disciplines, technology and a vision of a regenerative future.

“Life clearly does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes. Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.” - J. Lovelock

We are also united in our drive to act now. In addition to the world’s ecological, political, social, climate, educational, population, security, consumerism, extinction, cultural loss and other challenges, the rapid changes brought about by AI hold promise and peril. For more on this perspective, please visit this interview with Ex-Google Officer, Mo Gawdat.

Please join us on this exciting journey of discovery: of ourselves, the elder species surrounding us, the intelligence of the planet itself, the latest AI technology and the map of our future we will chart together.