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!
Sproutings
Events, publications, news and whereabouts.Open Forest @ the Forest Multiple symposium and Smart Forest Radio
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
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
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?
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
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)
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)
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 @ Cooler Planet exhibition
The Open Forest installation showing 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 own stories… Continue reading Open Forest @ Cooler Planet exhibition
Open Forest @ CreaTures Festival & Exhibition in Sevilla
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
Walking with a shrunken forest – Cerro Seco
Cerro seco area is one of the few relics of sub-xerophytic and high-altitude dry tropical forest, it almost does not look like a forest as it is quite low and surrounded by sand mines and urban dwellings. The patch is located in the southern urban limits of Bogota, in what is called Ciudad Bolivar. It… Continue reading Walking with a shrunken forest – Cerro Seco
Walking with water clouds in el Palmar
El Palmar is a private ecological reserve located in the cushioning zone of the Chingaza National Park, east of Bogotá the capital of what is known today as Colombia. The whole area is home to large extensions of native high Andean forests and paramo, water making ecosystems of importance and habitat to an incredible biodiversity.… Continue reading Walking with water clouds in el Palmar