Rural Futures

2024

Collaborator: Hi-Vis Agency w/ Mary Welcome
Commissioning Agency: Springboard for the Arts

Deck Designed by Nicole Lavelle



 Springboard for the Arts invited Hi-Vis Agency provide creative documentation for their Rural Futures Summit in June of 2023. The Rural Futures Summit brought together rural artists, organizers, activists, community members, and neighbors for three days of exchange and collaboration.

As artists and hype machines, we translated the tenor, momentum, and visions of participants into creative time capsules. We collaborated with participants in visioning and producing relational content. The resulting Rural Futures Portal contained a collaboratively generated curriculum of readings, a crowdsourced mixtape, and a divination deck of cards for rural dialogue. 

The Rural Futures Deck is a reflection of our shared context—a collection of places, people, questions, and visions. Out in the hinterlands and in the heart of our homes, we are building a shared future that is vast, mycelial, and entwined.  This project is a deep collaborative effort.

These cards were developed in collaboration with the 163 folks attending the Rural Futures Summit in Fergus Falls, Minnesota in June 2023, hosted by Springboard for the Arts. 



Roving Studio is a highly collaborative studio working at the intersection of architecture, art, social justice, public space, and in-depth research.


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