What this project is
Muscogee Tribal Towns is the anchor project of the Indigenous Futures Research Lab. This project brings together maps, virtual reality, augmented reality, 360 capture, exhibit design, and language learning to help people encounter Muscogee places, towns, dwelling spaces, and relationships.
The public-facing goal is simple: to create inviting ways for students, community members, scholars, and visitors to learn about Muscogee places and ways of being in the world.
Project subcards
Muscogee Places Flythrough
A guided virtual journey through key Muscogee places in the Southeast homelands and Oklahoma.
VR 360 Capture Place
Virtual Tribal Town
An immersive environment for learning about Muscogee town life, settlement, kinship, and everyday practice.
Prototype VR/AR Humanities
Dwelling Space Prototype
A proof-of-concept VR dwelling space for language learning, daily life, matrilocality, matrilineality, and relational roles.
Language Dwelling Kinship
360 Place Captures
Field-based 360 captures of places such as Ocmulgee/Altomggee, Etowah, and other Muscogee-related sites.
Fieldwork 360 Archive
Projected Space
Experiments in projection, immersive rooms, spatial storytelling, and exhibit environments.
Projection Installation Immersive
Tribal Town Futurity Exhibit
A traveling exhibit with installation photos, a booklet, interpretive text, 360 captures, and future exhibit plans.
Public Exhibit Booklet Documentation
Scholarly depth
This project supports Indigenous spatial humanities, Muscogee futurity, relational geographies, language learning, and public humanities approaches to place-based knowledge. It treats immersive media not as a substitute for community knowledge, but as a tool for careful interpretation, teaching, and relationship-centered learning.