Field Notes on the Life of a Cocoon is the genealogy of a cocoon and its use as a tool to occupy trees and protect community gardens, study canopies and create portable public accomodations. Driving Field Notes is an interest in exploring the potential of open source architecture and expanding hte possibilities of hacked materials.  By mapping the multiple relations, contexts and uses fo the form of the cocoon, Forays' installation comprises the field notes of an ongoing project, with the goal of inspiring new uses and articulations of an open-ended tool.