The 🌲 Open Forest Collective🌲 wrote a short piece about their co-creative ExP journey, discussing the importance of questioning the existing forest data, how it is produced, and by whom. Their article Open forest: walking with forests, stories, data, and other creatures has been published in the first 2022 issue of the ACM Interactions magazine. Full text is available on the magazine website and as a downloadable PDF 👀
Key Insights
→ There is an urgent need to better understand, care for, and imagine forest futures.
→ The Open Forest project is a journey of collective, experimental inquiry into different forests and other-than-human dataflows.
→ It is important to encourage the questioning of existing forest data, how it is produced, and by whom through performative drifting across space-times.
