Books, Tools & Card Decks
Books by Burton Nitta are available in various formats, including ebooks and paperback. We also produce creative tools which include decks of cards and the Field Notes of the Biota Beings Casting Cloths.
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Field Notes of the Biota Beings: FOREST⇆FIELDS
Available Now
Field Notes of the Biota Beings: Forest ⇆ Fields includes a guidebook and cloth set that helps you discover symbiotic relationships between humans and nature.
Inspired by the Japanese Tenugui cloth, it can act as a wearable, and the image can function as a map and code. Use it as a casting mat with the guidebook to inspire alternative ways to reimagine how we connect with nature.
The cloth is designed as a versatile tool to accompany you on your adventure. The guidebook adds to the ways you can use the cloth found in the other two editions. It includes instructions for wearing as protection, and to care for the natural world.
In this edition, the Biota Beings offer insights into practices such as fostering biodiversity, understanding trophic cascades, and creating refugia for endangered species. This volume focuses on connections within forest ecosystems, and can be used as a creative tool to create change.
The Forest ⇆ Fields set of the Field Notes is a limited edition due to the hand finishing. Order now to secure your copy.
Field Notes of the Biota Beings:
Human⇆Plant Biome set
Limited stock remaining
Field Notes of the Biota Beings: Human⇆Plant Biome is a tool to generate creative prompts that are inspired by ecological connectedness.
The Biota Beings are a speculative group of people that were once like you but have now evolved into biota-conscious beings.
This cloth contains a code that shares the Biota Beings' discoveries and their field notes. The Biota Beings use the accompanying cloth as a casting mat to generate ideas and to guide their decision-making. And you can too.
The cloth is inspired by the Tenugui and Furoshiki cloths that date from ancient Japanese tradition. These cloths are a versatile tool for wearing as protection, carrying food, and fixing things during exploration.
A guidebook accompanying the cloth gives full details about how you can use it in a number of ways.
The Human ⇆ Plant Biome version of the Field Notes is the second in a series of six sets. Each cloth has a limited edition, so order now to avoid disappointment.
Field Notes of the Biota Beings: Ocean⇆Forest set
Out Now
Now available: the Biota Beings Cloth and accompanying Guidebook, containing a creative prompt tool inspired by ecological connectedness. There are two colour ways to choose from: purple on white, or white on black.
Cloth dimensions: 42cm x 42cm approx. Printed on 100% cotton.
Guidebook: A6 size. 70 page softcover book. Features hand drawn illustration.
The Biota Beings are a speculative community who were once like you, but now evolved into biota-conscious beings.
This cloth contains a code that shares the Biota Beings' discoveries and field notes on ecological connections.
The cloth is inspired by the Tenugui cloth that originates from ancient Japanese tradition.
Like the Tenugui, the cloth is a versatile tool used for wearing as protection, carrying food, and fixing things during exploration.
The Biota Beings also use the cloth as a casting cloth to generate ideas and guide their decision-making.
A guidebook accompanying the cloth gives full details about how you can use the cloth for inspiration and as a tool for creative change making.
The Ocean Forest version of the Field Notes is the first in a series of six cloths. There is a limited edition of each cloth, so order now to avoid disappointment.
Use the cloth to discover prompts to inspire fresh insights into the world and your place within it.
Shipped from the UK.
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The Reality Coach Cards
Published in Spring 2021.
The Reality Coach Cards is a tool to inspire and guide thoughts to enable change.
You can use the Reality Coach Cards in a variety of different ways. The concept bridges our inner and outer realities; helping you to search within to imagine possibilities for change in the wider world. It uses metaphors to prompt thoughts and create space, giving you the means to consider options and providing oxygen for your creative sparks. It will challenge you to see beyond normalisations and to escape the limits of well-worn thought patterns.
As the internal mind-scape changes, can we gain new perspectives to transform the external world? Can we harness the power of our minds; imagining, then creating, alternative possibilities to meet ever shifting global challenges?
There are two options to purchase The Reality Coach Cards: as a physical guidebook and deck of cards; the physical book as a standalone; and as a digital ePub.
This book was conceived to accompany a deck of cards and can also be used as a standalone guide. It features the first volume of 24 cards including the hand-drawn illustrations and prompts to help create change. It also offers ideas to build your own deck of the Reality Coach Cards.
The system behind the Reality Coach Cards is three years in the making by internationally acclaimed artists Michael Burton and Michiko Nitta. Wide-ranging influences shape the system, including the study of other species (especially octopus and whales), neuroscience, design, storytelling, folklore, cartomancy, coaching and futurology practice.
So stretch your mind wide open and deal yourself new worlds and ways of thinking.
Share your discoveries to send ripples into the world to shift and shape realities.
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Also available in:
ebook in Apple Books, BARNES & NOBLE, Rakuten kobo, Torino, OverDrive, bibliotheca, BAKER & TAYLOR, vivlii, Borrow Box.
AFTER YOU
ebook
Published in Spring 2021.
What Does It Mean to Be Human? And Who Could We Become in a World in Crisis?
In the face of climate change and the challenges of sustaining a global population, humanity will evolve. But how far are we willing to go, and who will we become in the process?
Acclaimed artists Michael Burton and Michiko Nitta (Burton Nitta) explore these pressing questions through captivating artworks, visionary creatures, and groundbreaking technologies. Their creations offer thought-provoking alternatives to our current way of living, pushing the boundaries of human evolution in response to global crises.
This book, following their TEDx talk, provides a fast-paced, intimate look into their visionary world, blending personal insights with revolutionary ideas.
As the world calls for urgent action, this book invites you to ask: Who could we become? What future will we shape?
After You.
Available from:
Simpler and lighter version ebook available in Apple Books, BARNES & NOBLE, Rakuten kobo, Torino, OverDrive, bibliotheca, BAKER & TAYLOR, vivlii, Borrow Box.
New Organs of Creation
booklet
Published in Autumn 2019.
New Organs of Creation booklet explains further details about the project.
New Organs of Creation presents a hypothetical development of the human larynx (voice box), using tissue engineering, to extend the ability of the voice as a transformational instrument. The resulting voice attempts to enable a singer to talk directly to the body’s cells and steer the state of biological matter.
The summary of the project is available at: https://www.burtonnitta.co.uk/NewOrgansOfCreation.html
A4 size, full colour print, shipped from the U.K.
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Landscape Within
Book
Published in winter 2017.
Landscape Within updates the popular saying ‘you are what you eat’ to propose that ‘you are also where your food is grown, the landscape where you live and what your parents and grandparents were exposed to in their lifetime’. The project reveals how our bodies and minds are changed by heavy metal contamination as a result of industrial activity and waste.
The summary of the project is available at:
https://www.burtonnitta.co.uk/LandscapeWithin.html
210mm x 210mm, full colour, Perfect bound book, shipped from the U.K.
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The Algae Opera
booklet
Published in Autumn 2013.
The Algae Opera programme explains more about the project. The summary of the project is available at: www.burtonnitta.co.uk/AlgaeOpera.htm
A4 size, full colour print, shipped from the U.K.
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