In August 2022 in Newcastle we took a group of people for two experimental, hybrid walks in the Ouseburn area followed by a co-creation of forest stories. The patch we walked is a small urban conservation area located in the Ouseburn Valley, often considered the birthplace of the industrial revolution in Newcastle. The trail goes… Continue reading Walking the green of the industrial revolution in Ouseburn (UK)
Exhibitions
Open Forest @ Shieldfield Art Works Space (PDC2022)
Open Forest was part of the Art Exhibition Embracing Cosmologies organized around the Participatory Design Conference 2022 . The Shieldfield Art Works; a community artists’ run centre in New Castle, was a very welcoming place and we found all the other projects inspiring! During the exhibition we organized two experimental walks around the Ouseburn area… Continue reading Open Forest @ Shieldfield Art Works Space (PDC2022)
Open Forest @ Cooler Planet exhibition
An incarnation of the Open Forest installation is on display from september 17 to October 12th at the Cooler Planet exhibition (Aalto Otaniemi Campus, Espoo, Finland Väre | 2nd Floor 2, lobby), visitors can browse through existing documentation of past Open Forest walks, stories, get to know some of the forest patches and contribute their… Continue reading Open Forest @ Cooler Planet exhibition
Open Forest @ Creatures Festival in Sevilla
A tropical version of the Open Forest installation sprout at Real Fábrica de Artillería in Sevilla from Wednesday 29 June to Friday 1 July as part of the Creatures Festival. The whole exhibition took visitors on an immersive journey through a series of twenty-two experimental productions mobilizing forms of artistic knowledge and production aiming to support reflection… Continue reading Open Forest @ Creatures Festival in Sevilla
Open Forest @ Data Vitality Exhibition
An Open Forest installation is on display at the Data Vitality: Soft Infrastructures and Economies of Knowledge exhibition at Dipoly Gallery in Espoo The exhibition takes place from 18. 11. 2021 to 14. 02. 2022 and is curated by Edel O’Reilly, Aalto University. Data Vitality explores the changing role of data in society by combining… Continue reading Open Forest @ Data Vitality Exhibition
Open Forest @ the 4th research pavilion
As part of our contribution to the Uniarts Helsinki’s fourth Research Pavilion we set up an Open Forest installation in Hietsun Paviljonki during summer 2021. For a week we hang up in Hietaniemi beach pavilion and receive visitors in our corner of the room. We collected forest stories, introduced the main ideas regarding the project… Continue reading Open Forest @ the 4th research pavilion
Open forest @ the ABlock
The first instantiation of the Open Forest has been planted in an empty retail space at ABloc (Espoo, Finland), as part of a collaboration with CreaTures research project. The Collective will work for six months (November 2020 – April 2021) interviewing various forest stakeholders including passers by, forestry researchers, tree physiologists, artists, and forest data… Continue reading Open forest @ the ABlock