Our research with & on the Feral Map got published in the Journal of Cartography: Choi, J.H-j., Botero, A., Dolejšová, M. and Sleigh, L. (2024). Messy, Entangled, and Shapeshifting: Feral Mapping. International Journal of Cartography. DOI: 10.1080/23729333.2023.2297444
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Events, publications, news and whereabouts.Feral Experiments in CreaTures Co-Laboratory
Together withother fellow CreaTures, we have co-written a journal article discussing some of our feral research experiments and practices attempting to make sense with feral ecologies in and around us: Dolejšová, M., Botero, A., Choi, H-j. J., Mitro, M., Pokrywka, A., Mattelmäki, T. and Chewie, Š. (2024). Feral Experiments in CreaTures Co-Laboratory. Research in Arts… Continue reading Feral Experiments in CreaTures Co-Laboratory
Feral Ways of Making Sense with More-than-human Worlds
By Markéta Dolejšová, Jaz Hee-jeong Choi, and Chewie(contact: marketa.dolejsova@aalto.fi) Poster presented at the Society of Artistic Research – 15th International Conference on Artistic Research – 2024. At the centre of the Open Forest Collective’s practice-based inquiry is our common interest in the more-than-human – to recognise the relations that bring to life humans and nonhumans,… Continue reading Feral Ways of Making Sense with More-than-human Worlds
Weaving the Feral – at Uroboros 2023
Our Cabinet of Feral Data Curiosities was shown at the Feral Bodies, Synthetic Rituals exhibition organised as part of the Uroboros 2023 festival in Prague Petrohradská Kolektiv – Jedna Dva Tři Gallery. The Cabinet is an interactive installation presenting our ongoing investigation of feral ways of knowing, being, and living-with diverse more-than-human ecologies. On display… Continue reading Weaving the Feral – at Uroboros 2023
Feral Drifting with Lonjsko Polje in Designing in Coexistence – Reflections on Systemic Change
We published a chapter on Feral Drifting with Lonjsko Polje: Fragments of More-than-Human Cohabitation with Lonja Wetlands, in the book Designing in Coexistence – Reflections on Systemic Change that compiles the outcomes of almost a year of intensive activities within the discursive programme of the Croatian pavilion at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di… Continue reading Feral Drifting with Lonjsko Polje in Designing in Coexistence – Reflections on Systemic Change
Feral Fragments of Lonjsko Polje Film at Venice Biennale
The Feral Fragments of Lonjsko Polje film offers a series of short visual stories capturing a 4-day feral drift with the Lonjsko Polje wetlands in Croatia that we undertook with 19 participants of our workshop organised as part of the 18th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia.
Feral Drifting with Lonja Wetlands: Introducing Feral Fragments
The Feral Drifting with Lonja Wetlands drift involved a 4-day feral, performative investigation of multispecies relations and spatio-temporalities of care that shape the flow of life and death in Lonjsko Polje (or Lonja Wetlands), the largest protected wetlands in Croatia. Together with 19 participants, we experimented with feral ways of sensemaking that invite open-ended, multisensory,… Continue reading Feral Drifting with Lonja Wetlands: Introducing Feral Fragments
Weaving the Feral – Cabinet of Feral Data Curiosities at Helsinki Design Week
Our interactive installation Weaving the Feral: Cabinet of Feral Data Curiosities sprouted at the Living-with Feral Ecologies festival organised within the Helsinki Design Week 2023 public program. The festival presented a series of performative events, workshops, and exhibition interventions exploring feral ways of knowing, caring and relating that shape the flow of life and death… Continue reading Weaving the Feral – Cabinet of Feral Data Curiosities at Helsinki Design Week
Call: Feral Drifting with Lonja Wetlands
Feral Drifting with Lonja Wetlands – Open Forest Collective’s performartive drift at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia organised as part of the discursive program of the Croatian Pavilion – Same as it Ever Was. The event will involve a feral, performative investigation of multispecies relations and spatiotemporalities of care that… Continue reading Call: Feral Drifting with Lonja Wetlands
Open Forest: Walking-with Feral Stories, Creatures, Data
Our paper on walking-with forests and co-creating feral forest data under the guidance of local, more-than-human creatures has been published in the proceedings of the 21st European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW)🌲. PDF for download is available here. Dolejšová Markéta, Botero Andrea, Choi Jaz H.-j. & Chewie (2023). Open Forest: Walking-with Feral Stories, Creatures,… Continue reading Open Forest: Walking-with Feral Stories, Creatures, Data
Reimagining forest relationships through walking and forest stories
We had the opportunity to talk about our forest walking & storying at the Sustainability Science Days 2023 conference, as part of the Human-Forest-Relationships as Part of Future Sustainability Solutions panel🌲. It was good. Woof.
Feral Fragments of Lonjsko Polje at Aqueous Futures Exhibition
The Feral Fragments of Lonjsko Polje film emerging from our 4-day feral drift with the Lonjsko Polje wetlands in Croatia, organised as part of the Croatian Pavilion at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, was shown at the Aqueous Futures exhibition in Morecambe, UK. The Aqueous Futures exhibition explores ways in which art, design,… Continue reading Feral Fragments of Lonjsko Polje at Aqueous Futures Exhibition