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In 2024, Blue Lab staged the inaugural installation of our Popup Story Patch public art project at the Morris Arboretum & Gardens in Philadelphia.

Invoking imagination, memory, speculation and active engagement, the Popup Story Patch invited visitors into conversations, experiences and creative projects that might reframe how they think about their relationships to the more-than-human world.

Our short film about the Popup Story Patch is, in its essence, a big box of love letters to the animals, plants and places that have most moved them.

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Founded in 2021 and led by Allison Carruth and Barron Bixler, Blue Lab is an environmental storytelling and media production studio housed at Princeton University. The lab provides a training ground for established, emerging and aspiring environmental storytellers.

In our work, we bridge the tools of art and science, research and creative practice, historical knowledge and speculative imagination. The lab's animating question is how different communities make sense of real-time environmental change (and in some cases catastrophic loss) in relationship to the places they love, value and call home.

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