Open Forest @ GamiForest symposium

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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

Open Forest: Walking with Forests, Stories, Data, and Other Creatures

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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

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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

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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 Sipoonkorpi

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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

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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.2021.0016 

Walking with Křivoklátsko, Chewie leads the way

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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

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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

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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