A Mixed Reality XR Installation at 3rd & Pine, Seattle,
Extending throughout Future Arts Way Corridor

Future Arts—a women-led nonprofit—will transform Seattle’s 3rd & Pine into OTHER EARTH 2026, an immersive XR installation debuting during the 2026 FIFA World Cup, multiple years in the making. Blending Indigenous flora and fauna knowledge, Afrofuturism, and Pacific Northwest ecologies, the work reimagines our relationship with nature through ancestral wisdom and multisensory storytelling.

Inspired by previously created Future Arts projects and local community research, like Divine Ndemeye’s Parasitic Healing Bath (2023) and Alina Nazmeeva’s Currents AR salmon run (2022, 2024), this installation builds on Ndemeye’s plant-based ethnobotanical designs and symbologies stewarded with local Indigenous ethnobotanist and artist Bri Castilleja with salmon migration visuals by Alina Nazmeeva and Alex Kosnett. In this iteration, workshops with local Indigenous stewards and additional communities will be held to continue building an entire new world rooted in history. Together with soundscapes led by local musician Alexis Eggertsen, OTHER EARTH becomes a portal of healing, celebration, and ecological reconnection to ancestry and Indigeneity of any passerby—while grounding in the local waterways and buried ethnobotanical histories beneath downtown Seattle.

At its core, OTHER EARTH reclaims the word “Other” as a source of strength and vision. It uplifts Indigenous, Black, diasporic, and non-Western perspectives—historically “othered”, offering a space where difference is celebrated, and biodiversity means a strong earth that leans on each other. Rooted in regeneration, resilience, and Nature as Queen, this work invites the public into a vibrant future of stewardship, radical abundance, and vibrant possibility.