OIKA RESEARCH

Recoupling Nature to Culture

Oika Research investigates a subject - be it a place, organization or other system - using Oika concepts of relationality, entanglement, and continuity. It applies perspectives and methodologies from all fields including (but not limited to) the natural sciences, creative practices, wisdom traditions, cosmic history, tech, cognitive science, and wellness. But above all, Oika Research begins on the ground, in touch with the ecological intelligence of the natural world. It then positions culture as systemically integral to this ecology across all scales. With this continuity intact, Oika Research addresses the amelioration of current, planetary symptoms present in environmental, social, and cultural ecosystems. 

Oika Researchers are Oika-certified, forward-facing pioneers and inadvertent leaders who not only care about the state of the world but trust the intelligence of the world. Through patient, participatory immersion into both the natural world and their research subjects, they generate insights on how to apply ecological intelligence toward the betterment of the systems they are studying. It is a process that repairs discontinuities between nature and culture, re-membering a channel of creative life-force flow and revealing new pathways toward the world we want to live into.