← Field Station home

Week 01 · Public field notes

Indigenous Futurities

This course begins with relation, not a filing cabinet wearing a lanyard. The filing cabinet has been gently asked to sit this one out.

Orientation

What are we disturbing?

Week 1 opens the course as a living intellectual world. Orientation is not passive setup: it is the work of noticing the people, values, responsibilities, and learning routes already in the room.

Signal traces

Live wires

  • A course ecology is more than a calendar with better posture.
  • Introductions change when values carry the conversation instead of hovering above it.
  • Learning can begin with curiosity about relation rather than extraction of information.

Public routes

Enter the work

Held in relation

In the living classroom

Maya-led story and teaching thresholds remain in the living classroom, where context and relation can do their actual work.

Public boundary: Public materials orient students to the course without reproducing live stories, language teachings, songs, or cultural material.

Optional machine route

Try this with a machine

Bring the source discipline with you. The machine can help the question move, but it does not become the source.

The prompt remains visible for manual copying.

Carry this onward

Leave with this unresolved

What would change if course orientation were treated as a responsibility to relation rather than a checklist to clear?