April is a good time to share insights from feral forest walks & experimental drifts at the GamiFOREST symposium organised within the GamiFIN conference program (full program here 👀🌲). Our contribution Walking in the open forest: Playing with stories and data (Friday 29th April, 13:25 – 14:30 EEST) won the award for the best extended… Continue reading Open Forest @ GamiForest symposium
Sproutings
Events, publications, news and whereabouts.Open Forest: Walking with Forests, Stories, Data, and Other Creatures
Our new article in the Interactions magazine – read here: Botero, A., Dolejšová, M., Choi, J. H-j. and Ampatzidou, C. (2022). Open Forest: Walking with Forests, Stories, Data, and Other Creatures. interactions 29, 1 (January – February 2022), 48–53. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3501766 Key Insights → There is an urgent need to better understand, care for, and imagine… Continue reading Open Forest: Walking with Forests, Stories, Data, and Other Creatures
Following Seals and Dogs
Together with a couple of other creatures, we wrote a paper on our forest walking as a self-reflective transformative practice – published in the Participatory Design Conference 2022 proceedings: Hakio, K., Dolejšová, M., Mattelmäki, T., Choi, J.H.-j. and Ampatzidou, C. (2022). Following Seals and Dogs: Experimenting with Personal Dimensions of Transformative Design. Participatory Design Conference… Continue reading Following Seals and Dogs
Open Forest: Data, Stories, and Walking-With @PDC
Our publication in the Participatory Design Conference 2022 proceedings related to our interactive installation and performative walk organised within the PDC exhibition program: Dolejšová, M., Choi, J.H.-j., Botero, A. and Ampatzidou, C. (2022). Open Forest: Data, Stories, and Walking-With. Participatory Design Conference 2022: Volume 2 (PDC 2022 Vol. 2), August 19–September 01, 2022, Newcastle upon… Continue reading Open Forest: Data, Stories, and Walking-With @PDC
Walking with forest-gardens in Tabanoc
BĂ«ngbe Uáman Tabanoc, is the ancestral territory of the KamĂ«ntĹťa people. It is located in what today is known as the Sibundoy Valley on the eastern edge of the southern Colombian Andes. The valley is a bowl-shaped depression 2,200 meters above sea level surrounded by steep mountains and usually covered by clouds. There is an… Continue reading Walking with forest-gardens in Tabanoc
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
Walking with Sipoonkorpi
Guided by geographer Marko Leppänen & biologist Adela Pajunen this fall, we walked through, in and with a patch of forest in the Sipoonkorpi National Park (Helsinki region, Finland). During this hybrid (on-site/online) walk, the authors of the Terveysmetsä (Health Forest) project shared some of their research experiences with a forest therapy model that has… Continue reading Walking with Sipoonkorpi
Feral Ways of Knowing and Doing: Tools and Resources for Transformational Creative Practice
Our article on feral ways got published in Pivot conference proceedings: Ampatzidou, C., Dolejšová, M., Choi, J. H-j. and Botero, A. (2022). Feral Ways of Knowing and Doing: Tools and Resources for Transformational Creative Practice. Proceedings of the 2021 Pivot Conference: Dismantling Reassembling – Tools for Alternative Futures. OCAD University, July 22-23, 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21606/pluriversal.2021.0016Â
Walking with Křivoklátsko, Chewie leads the way
In the Czech Republic, an ongoing series of perfromative walks initiated in July 2021 takes place in Central Bohemia, in the protected landscape area KĹ™ivoklátsko, which presents a unique ecosystem with a mosaic of species-rich habitats.  The Bohemian guide Chewie, a Collective’s member of canine origin, navigates the walks while following his extensive sensorial… Continue reading Walking with KĹ™ivoklátsko, Chewie leads the way
Walking together-apart with a research forest
From our Open Forest installation in Hietsun Paviljonki at the Research Pavilion #4 exhibition, we organized two hybrid (online and onsite) performative interventions inviting people to join us remotely for a walk at the Hyytiälä research forest, and its SMEAR II station. Some participants joined us from the research pavilion in Hietaniemi beach, some from… Continue reading Walking together-apart with a research forest
Open Forest @ the 4th Research Pavilion
As part of our contribution to the Uniarts Helsinki’s fourth Research Pavilion exhibition, we set up an Open Forest installation in Hietsun Paviljonki during summer 2021. Our exhibition installation was open for a week: we collected new forest stories through the exhibited Feral Map and organized two remote performative walks with the SMEAR station in… Continue reading Open Forest @ the 4th Research Pavilion
Walking with an urban forest in Melbourne
The Melbourne urban forest is a complex ecosystem of more than 70,000 trees each with unique IDs that provides a peculiar context for inquiry into open and alternative forest data. The Melbourne walks (May 2021) were guided by a set of dĂ©rives, developed through three co-creative workshops with participants of diverse backgrounds, and inspired by… Continue reading Walking with an urban forest in Melbourne