ALOTOF (A Laboratory On The Open Fields) is an action by the four core partners OKNO (BE), Yo-Yo (CZ), ECOS (FR) and Nadine (BE) as well as numerous others from Europe. Each partner considers the field of new media art as inspiration for connecting its activities to ecology and working in the open fields. ALOTOF is conceived as a distributed and dynamic outdoor creation lab with a strong anchorage in the gardens of every involved partner. By taking an ecological strategy to observing patterns in the open air laboratories and developing appropriate tools for outdoor creativity, poetic, playful and scientific methodologies will be used to explore the possibilities of ecological media art.The cycle of the 4 seasons as a subdivision of the year marked by changes in weather, fauna and flora or hours of daylight, serves as a concept for the ALOTOF time-line. By means of connecting all activities to 5 key approaches (constructing, measuring, working, experimenting and learning), ALOTOF is looking for new opportunities to experiencing the open field and to encouraging collaboration between people by adhering its overall concept to alternative outdoor creation systems.The input and resources of all the partners involved guarantee a rich environment for discovery and production. The outcomes will be artworks as interpretations of ecological relations within biological and social environments through the lens of system aesthetics. ALOTOF will e.g. access sonic and visual data from various ecosystems following a process-based methodology. Project activities will be archived and made visible through creative online databases documenting the entire collaboration process. They also will be interpreted in a critical artistic publication and tours across Europe conceived as mobile showcase of a laboratory in the open fields.