A walk with Lullymore West Bog

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We had the pleasure to attend an experimental walk with the Lullymore West Bog in the Irish Peatlands led by Martina O’Brien. More bog-walking is coming soon!  

Open Forest @ the Forest Multiple symposium and Smart Forest Radio

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The nice people from the Smart Forest project had invited us to talk about Open Forest at their symposium in Cambridge last year. They have now made a nice podcast episode from the presentation that can be heard at their Smart Forest Radio. https://atlas.smartforests.net/en/radio/the-forest-multiple-andrea-botero/

Designing With Feral Ecologies: On Trees, Trust & Time

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We gave a talk about our Open Forest whereabouts at the Digitalisierte Lebenswelten und integrative Technikentwicklung conference that was organised by the BMBF-Clusters Integrierte Forschung.  The recording is available here.

Open Forest: Feral Drifting through More-than-Human Times

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The good people from the Temporal Design group at Design Informatics, University of Edinburgh, invited us to share some stories from our forest walks at their  3rd International Temporal Design Symposium and Workshop. Together with others at the event, we reflected on the role of design practice in revealing, intervening, and potentially supporting manifestations of… Continue reading Open Forest: Feral Drifting through More-than-Human Times

Walking with SMEAR II – what did the cloud whisper to the forest canopy?

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What does a sensor say when it walks into a forest? And where are all the squirrels? 🐿️🌲 On November 13th, 2022 we organized another performative walk with one of our favorite forest patches: the SMEAR II research forest in the historical Hyytiälä forestry field station in Juupajoki. If you have followed our activities by now… Continue reading Walking with SMEAR II – what did the cloud whisper to the forest canopy?

Bohemian walks at Uroboros Festival

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Once again, Chewie from the Open Forest Collective led an experimental forest walk through/with the protected landscape area of Křivoklátsko (CZ) on the 9th of October 2022. The walk was part of a longer 2-days field trip organized in the framework of Uroboros festival so there were more participants this time, than the usual dog-human pair of our previous walks… Continue reading Bohemian walks at Uroboros Festival

Walking the green of the industrial revolution in Ouseburn (UK)

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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)

Open Forest @ Shieldfield Art Works Gallery (PDC2022)

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Open Forest was part of the Exhibition Embracing Cosmologies organized around the Participatory Design Conference 2022. We planted an interactive installation at the Shieldfield Art Works gallery in New Castle. During the exhibition we organized two experimental walks around the Ouseburn area which was just around the corner from the exhibition space. Locals and conference… Continue reading Open Forest @ Shieldfield Art Works Gallery (PDC2022)

Open Forest @ CreaTures Festival & Exhibition in Sevilla

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The Open Forest installation has sprouted at the Real Fábrica de Artillería in Sevilla from Wednesday 29 June to Friday 1 July as part of the Creatures Festival & Exhibition. 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 & Exhibition in Sevilla