The Floating Stories Lab is a central creative and methodological element of this research.

Conceived as a floating storytelling studio and regenerative futures research platform, the lab takes the form of a 41-foot Polynesian-inspired wooden catamaran designed to function as both a living space and a creative research environment.

The Floating Stories Lab creates the conditions for a slow, place-based creative practice. Rather than travelling rapidly between projects and locations, the lab enables extended engagement with particular environments, communities, and ecosystems.

Operating from the ocean, rivers, and coastal spaces, the lab allows creative practice to unfold within direct relationship to the living systems that sustain life. Storytelling becomes an act of observation and participation rather than extraction.

Within this context, creative outputs may include documentary storytelling, interviews, essays, podcasts, and visual storytelling experiments. These works aim to explore and communicate stories that illuminate regenerative ways of living and the relationships that connect people, place, and the wider ecological world.

The Floating Stories Lab therefore functions simultaneously as:

• a creative studio

• a research platform

• a living environment

• and a site of ongoing inquiry.