ON THE ART OF SENSORY NAVIGATION

Together with Tereza Stehlíková, Karolína Plášková and Tereza Lišková, we talked about our ways of (not) losing the sense of direction. Or: On the art of sensory navigation in the Czech Radio’s show ArtCafé.

FERAL GIFT: WHEN ARE WE TOGETHER?

The Feral Gift - a co-creative experiment in feral ways of knowing, sensing, and making sense with more-than-human worlds - keeps giving.

After the initial loop exploring what could it possibly mean to become a change (2022), we reassembled our selves in different shapes and bodies, with the intention to understand and make sense with each other. Moving together, following each other’s time, to the point when we meet.

ARS BIOLOGICA // INITIATION

Ars Biologica: Independent Studies Program (ABIS) Initiation in October 2024: a 2-day workshop summoning artists, scientists, and their landscapes to weave together the Ars Biologica study program - soon to emerge within the České Budějovice - European Capital of Culture 2028 project.

A FORAGER’S NOTEBOOK: INVITATION TO DRIFT WITH(IN) TASTES, CROPS, AND LANDSCAPES

A booklet emerging from the workshop “Foraging for Planetary Health: Exploring Multispecies Metabolism in a Postindustrial Landscape” organised by the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences (autumn 2024, Prague).

UROBOROS 2024: NESTING ACROSS DIFFERENCE

Uroboros 2024: Nesting across Difference - Annual art & design research festival based in Prague.

The 2024 festival theme brings up difference as a key element in more-than-human worlds, made up of many nests: temporary places of safety, comfort, and belonging.

How do we arrive at destinations that don’t seem to exist (yet)? How do we know where and when to land, and whom to travel with? What do we keep in our carrier bags, and what gets tossed, lost, or forgotten? How do we make sense with the places and travellers we encounter on the way? Or – what does it take to nest across difference, in more-than-human worlds?

FERAL NEST: MULTISPECIES SENSE~MAKING

Feral Nest: Multispecies Sense~Making was a 1-day cinematic symposium organised at Uroboros 2024 festival that brought together artists and researchers working with/in multispecies ecologies.

FORAGING WITH KAFKÁRNA MULTISPECIES ECOLOGIES

Workshop & drift at Kafkárna Center for Art and Ecology, organised for the Institute of Sociology - Czech Academy of Sciences’ event Foraging for planetary health: exploring multispecies metabolism in postindustrial landscape.

MAKING SENSE OF/WITH ARTISTIC RESEARCH

Making Sense of/with Artistic Research. Talk at the Faculty of Fine Arts at Brno University of Technology (FaVu) - Diploma exhibitions seminar.

FERAL FIELDS: PRACTICING WITH MORE-THAN-HUMAN VARTIOSAARI

The Feral Fields sympoiesium co-organised on & with the Vartiosaari island in Helsinki (31.5-2.6 2024) explored the possibilities of more-than-human co-creation – of knowledge, data, experiences, and relations. Our focus was, among others, on the 1) ethical aspects of more-than-human co-creation (who can participate, to what extent? whose interests and futures are considered?) the 2) diverse aesthetic forms this can take in practice (how could these collaborations sound, smell, taste, look, feel like?), and the 3) wider sociopolitical contexts of living and collaborating with/as more-than-human ecologies.

A set of outputs capturing our co-creative process - including an online Feral Archive, a zine publication, and a short movie - is currently on the brew. The sympoiesium program and initial ideas are living here: https://collective.uroboros.design/feralfields/

Organised as part of the year-long Uroboros festival program, with kind support from Aalto University.

FERAL EXPERIMENTS IN CREATURES CO-LABORATORY

Our experiences from feral engagements with more-than-human ecologies sprouted during the CreaTures project got published in the Research in Arts and Education (RAE) Journal ->

Dolejšová, M., Botero, A., Choi, H-j. J., Mitro, M., Pokrywka, A., Mattelmäki, T. and Chewie, Š. (2024). Feral Experiments in CreaTures Co-Laboratory. Research in Arts and Education, 2024(1), 25–40. https://doi.org/10.54916/rae.142583

Woof.

MORE-THAN-HUMAN CO-CREATION: MAKING SENSE WITH AI IN ARTISTIC RESEARCH

Opening provocation at SAR Forum 2024 – 15th International Conference on Artistic Research, Fontys Academy of the Arts, Tilburg. A drift with & through different AI modalities provoked together with Lenka Hámošová (Uroboros Collective).

How can we collaborate and make sense with nonhumans, such as algorithms in AI media synthesis, to develop our creative practices while maintaining their situatedness? How could this more-than-human sensemaking look, smell, sound, taste, feel like?

FERAL WAYS OF MAKING SENSE WITH MORE-THAN-HUMAN WORLDS

Poster at SAR Forum 2024 – 15th International Conference on Artistic Research, Fontys Academy of the Arts, Tilburg. Co-created with Jaz Hee-jeong Choi & Chewie; paper-planted by Enrique Encinas. Full text lives -> here.

MESSY, ENTANGLED, AND SHAPESHIFTING: FERAL MAPPING.

Article in the International Journal of Cartography co-written with Jaz Hee-jeong Choi, Andrea Botero & Lachlan Sleight.

Jaz Hee-jeong Choi, Andrea Botero, Markéta Dolejšová & Lachlan Sleight. (2024). Messy, entangled, and shapeshifting: Feral Mapping. International Journal of Cartography, DOI: 10.1080/23729333.2023.2297444

CREATURES FESTIVAL CATALOGUE

A catalogue accompanying and emerging from the CreaTures Festival in Espacio Santa Clara and Real Fábrica de Artillería in Seville, Spain. The festival brought together 22 CreaTures Experimental Productions, including the contributions by Open Forest Collective and the Feeding Food Futures group.

PDF exists -> here.

RESEARCH (WITH) ART PODCAST

Research (With) Art: Artistic Research Between Science, Pleasure, Dirt and Non-human World. The Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (AVU) Podcast.

Available HERE.

What does it mean to do artistic research today? In this first installment, artists and researchers Florian Dombois, Markéta Dolejšová, Jaz Hee-jeong Choi and Anne Helen Mydland offer four perspectives on why to do artistic research – and how it can reflect on both art and science, push against the myth of artistic genius, be embedded in more-than-human scales or use archeology to uncover undiscussed assumptions.

(Pic: Dérive prompts from our Feral Drift with Artistic Research)

FERAL ZINE

Feral Helsinki: Making Sense with More-than-Human Urban Ecologies is a zine co-created by Contemporary Design students & other-than-human creatures living in & around Helsinki, as part of our Experimental Design course at Aalto.

Zine pdf & course details coexist HERE

The Zine includes creative essays by: Hana Rehorčíková, Saga Rantanen, Luise Arnold, Minchen Stenersen, Mingzhu Fan, João Floréncio Justino, Mattia Anderle, Fanny Kajela, Yutaro Komaki, Soli Uutera & Dario Aguet.

Edited by Markéta Dolejšová & Zoë Robertson

PERFORMING FERAL AI AESTHETICS

A co-creative workshop in the National Gallery Prague organised as part of the Uroboros 2023 and Fotograf 2023 joint festival programs

FERAL FRAGMENTS OF LONJSKO POLJE FILM / 18th VENICE ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE

A short film co-created by participants of the Open Forest Collective’s workshop at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia was showcased at the Biennale, as part of the Croatian Pavilion – Same as it Ever Was.

DRIFTING WITH FERAL DATA IN ARTISTIC RESEARCH

A feral talk at the Half-life — Half-alive symposium, a 12-hour performative reflection on artistic research at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague.

FERAL HELSINKI: MAKING SENSE WITH MORE-THAN-HUMAN URBAN ECOLOGIES

A video installation in the National Gallery Prague exhibited as part of the Uroboros 2023 and Fotograf 2023 joint festival programs. The installation shows ten short films made by students of the Experimental Design course at Aalto University.

Films by: Minchen Stenersen, Hana Rehorčíková, Saga Rantanen, Fanny Kajela, João Floréncio Justino, Mingzhu Fan, Mattia Anderle, Yutaro Komaki, Luise Arnold, Dario Aguet.

Curated by Markéta Dolejšová & Zoë Robertson

Available at: https://youtu.be/FtFQ-mL9Bx8

FERAL EXPERIMENTS IN CREATURES CO-LABORATORY

A full paper at the VIII Art of Research conference, Aalto University.

Markéta Dolejšová, Andrea Botero, Jaz Hee-jeong Choi, Michal Mitro, Agniezska Pokrywka, Tuuli Mattelmäki and Chwie. (2023). Feral Experiments in CreaTures Co-Laboratory. Proceedings of the VIII Art of Research conference, Aalto University

DESIGNING IN COEXISTENCE – REFLECTIONS ON SYSTEMIC CHANGE ∞ PANEL AT 18th VENICE ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE

Panel discussion & book launch organised as part of Croatia’s participation in the 18th Venice Biennale – International Architecture Exhibition.

The event program includes a conversation with Mia Roth and Tonči Čerina (curators of the Croatian performance), the leaders of the workshop held in Lonja Wetlands, Markéta Dolejšová and Jaz Hee-jeong Choi (members of the Open Forest Collective) and one of the authors of the texts in the book, Michael Smyth (Edinburgh Napier University). The conversation will be moderated by Ivica Mitrović (curator of the Pavilion’s discursive program).

25 November 2023 at 4.00 p.m. at the premises of the Croatian Pavilion at the Venice Arsenale.

FERAL DRIFTING WITH LONJA WETLANDS: FRAGMENTS OF MORE-THAN-HUMAN COHABITATION.

Reflections from our Lonja-Venice workshop have been published on the Croatian Pavilion’s website ∞ Catalogue in print coming soon.

Dolejšová, M., Choi, J., Botero, A. & Chewie (2023). Feral Drifting with Lonja Wetlands: Fragments of More-than-Human Cohabitation. Exhibition Catalogue of the Croatian Pavilion at 18th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. Available online.

MORE-THAN-HUMAN KNOWLEDGE AND DATA IN ARTISTIC & PRACTICE-BASED RESEARCH

The distributed keynote lecture at the Uroboros 2023 festival invited four practice-based researchers to share their experiences with co-creating and relating to more-than-human knowledge and data.

Coming from various areas of creative inquiry – including art, interaction design, and HCI – the four keynote speakers Jaz Hee-jeong Choi, Tereza Stehlíková, Marie Louise Juul Søndergaard, and Simone C. Niquille discussed their creative ways of making sense with more-than-human creatures, materials, and instruments.

Moderators: Markéta Dolejšová & Enrique Encinas

WEAVING THE FERAL: CABINET OF FERAL DATA CURIOSITIES / UROBOROS'23

Open Forest Collective’s installation at the Uroboros 2023 Art & Design Research Festival.

A series of feral data artifacts co-created with more-than-human ecologies of Colombian chagras, Bohemian forests, Croatian wetlands, and the Gunditjmara Country.

UROBOROS 2023: FERAL BODIES, SYNTHETIC RITUALS

The Uroboros festival is an annual gathering of artists, designers, and researchers experimenting with diverse means of living with and caring for more-than-human ecologies. Attending to ‘more-than-human’ as inclusive of both multispecies and algorithmic agencies, the 2023 Uroboros invites art & design inquiries into contemporary social, technological, and ecological shifts.

WEAVING THE FERAL: CABINET OF FERAL DATA CURIOSITIES / LIVING WITH FERAL ECOLOGIES

Open Forest Collective’s outdoor installation at the Living-with Feral Ecologies festival organised as part of the Helsinki Design Week and Uroboros Loops 2023 programs.

A series of feral data artifacts co-created with more-than-human ecologies of Colombian chagras, Bohemian forests, Croatian wetlands, and the Gunditjmara Country.

LIVING-WITH FERAL ECOLOGIES

The Living-with Feral Ecologies festival explores feral ways of knowing, caring, and relating that shape the flow of life and death in more-than-human ecosystems. Situated in the green and creatures-rich environment of the Lapinlanhti park in Helsinki, the festival offers a 12-hour long program of co-creative events happening both during the day and at night.

FERAL FRAGMENTS OF LONJSKO POLJE / AQUEOUS FUTURES

The Feral Fragments of Lonjsko Polje short film co-created by participants of Open Forest’s Venice Biennale workshop was showcased at the Aqueous Futures conference and exhibition, Morecambe (UK).

FERAL DRIFTING WITH LONJA WETLANDS @ LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA 2023 // OPEN CALL

A workshop at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia organised by the Open Forest Collective, as part of the discursive program of the Croatian Pavilion – Same as it Ever Was.

The workshop involves a feral, performative investigation of multispecies relations and spatio-temporalities of care that shape the flow of life and death in the Lonja wetlands. Together with participants, we experiment with feral ways of sensemaking that invite open-ended, multisensory, and spontaneous encounters unfolding beyond the bounds of human control.

Come drift-with!

A call for participation is open by June 12 2023.
Workshop: July 19-23 2023
Details and application here 🐺

OPEN FOREST: WALKING WITH FERAL STORIES, CREATURES, DATA

A paper published at ECSCW'23, spiced up with a post-review removal of one of the other-than-human paper co-authors.

Dolejšová, M., Botero, A., Choi, J.H.-j. & Chewie (2023). Open Forest: Walking-with Feral Stories, Creatures, Data. In: Proceedings of the 21st European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work. The International Venue on Practice-centered Computing on the Design of Cooperation Technologies.

https://dl.eusset.eu/handle/20.500.12015/4676

Woof.

REIMAGINING FOREST RELATIONSHIPS THROUGH WALKING AND FOREST STORIES

A talk about Open Forest walking, storying & other experiments // the Sustainability Science Days 2023 //🌲Human-Forest-Relationships as Part of Future Sustainability Solutions panel🌲

CREATURES LABORATORY: EXPERIMENTAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO CULTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS

How we’ve been Co-Laborating in CreaTures – a talk at the Sustainability Science Days 2023 conference, University of Helsinki. Stories compiled together with Andrea Botero & Tuuli Mattelmäki.

THE CREATURES FRAMEWORK

The framework, as a key resource we’ve developed in the CreaTures project, suggests how creative practices can stimulate action towards socially and ecologically sustainable futures. The framework might be appealing to creative practitioners, policymakers, funders, and researchers who are interested in learning more about the links between creative practice, eco-social change, and transformative futures.

DESIGNING WITH FERAL ECOLOGIES: ON TREES, TRUST & TIME.

At Digitalisierte Lebenswelten und integrative Technikentwicklung conference, BMBF-Clusters Integrierte Forschung. Recording coming soon.

OPEN FOREST: FERAL DRIFTING THROUGH MORE-THAN-HUMAN TIMES

Open Forest at the 3rd International Temporal Design Symposium and Workshop, Edinburgh, UK 🐺🌲

MESSAGES IN A BOTTLE

Messages in a Bottle is a CreaTures engagement experiment presenting a rich variety of experiences and perspectives related to transformative creative practice. The Messages aim to amplify the voices of creative practitioners, which often hold limited authority in how transformative creative practices are understood, valued, and supported through policy and other related systems and strategies.

CREATURES CO-LABORATORY CATALOGUE

The CreaTures Co-Laboratory Catalogue is out! The book offers an overview of experiences, insights and outcomes that emerged from 20 experimental artistic productions developed within the CreaTures project in 2020 – 2022. The free, open-access publication is accessible as a pdf (December 2022) and soon also in print (April 2023).

WHAT DID THE CLOUD WHISPER TO THE FOREST CANOPY?

What does a sensor say when it walks into ~~a bar~~ a forest? And where are all the squirrels? 🐿️🌲

An experimental walk with theSMEAR II research forest in the historical Hyytiälä forestry field station in Juupajoki, organised by the Open Forest Collective. The SMEAR II (Station for Measuring Ecosystem-Atmosphere Relations) is a highly instrumentalized patch of forest equipped with a variety of sensors and other measuring devices to monitor the functioning of trees, soil processes, and their atmospheric interactions. During this peer-guided walk, we will explore the local forest and its creatures including trees, plants and squirrels as well as sensors and other data-gathering instruments. We will raise questions about power, values and structural inequalities that shape forests.

WALKING WITH FERAL FORESTS, CREATURES, STORIES

Experimental walk with the protected landscape area Křivoklátsko led by Chewie of the Open Forest Collective fame / organised as part of the Uroboros 2022 festival.

THE FERAL GIFT AT UROBOROS FESTIVAL

The Feral Gift was performed at the Uroboros 2022 festival as part of the Feral Gif Exchange session (Prague, CZ).

Feral Gift is a co-creative experiment in shared ways of understanding, doing, and becoming eco-social change. What does eco-social change mean in our diverse personal contexts? How does it feel, smell, sound, taste like?

The Feral Gift was proposed by Markéta Dolejšová (Czech Republic/Finland) and Danielle Wilde (Australia/Sweden/Denmark) and brought to life together with Iryna Zamuruieva (Ukraine/Scotland), Martyna Miller (Poland), Ann Light (United Kingdom/Sweden), Felipe G. Gil (Spain) & the Open Forest Collective (Jaz Hee-jeong Choi – South Korea/Australia, Andrea Botero – Colombia/Finland, Markéta Dolejšová – Czech Republic/Finland).

UROBOROS 2022: SHEDDING THE SKIN

Curated festival // The third annual Uroboros Festival of eco-social art & design took place in October 5-8th 2022, in Prague (CZ) and online. This year, the festival followed the main theme Shedding the Skin and presented a 4-day program of conversations, exhibitions, workshops, social presencing, AI embroidering, theatre plays, campfires, interspecies meditations, forest walks, and various feral experiments.

FEASTING ON PARTICIPATORY METHODOLOGIES FOR REGENERATIVE FOOD TRANSITIONS

Feasting of Participatory Methodologies for Regenerative Food Transitions – workshop at Participatory Design Conference 2022 organised by the Feeding Food Futures network.

Full workshop paper here. Workshop outcomes compiled into a Co-creative Food Design Cookbook coming soon.

CREATURES SHOWCASE AT HELSINKI DESIGN WEEK 2022

Curated exhibition // a selection of seven experimental productions from the CreaTures Laboratory showcased at the Cooler Planet exhibition as part of the Helsinki Design Week 2022 (September 7th – October 12th, 2022). Showcased projects included the Open Forest & the More-than-Human Food Futures Cookbook.

DESIGNING-WITH: FOODS, FORESTS, FERAL CREATURES

Guest lecture at Aalto University - Innovative Fashion Design course. How can feral creative practice help to stimulate positive eco-social change? What does it take to design with more-than-human creatures as partners rather than ‘materials’?

MANAGED OR OUT OF CONTROL? BRIDGING POLICY AND CREATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON NATURE

Managed Or Out Of Control? Bridging Policy And Creative Perspectives On Nature – Panel Discussion organised by the CreaTures project as part of the New European Bauhaus Festival / talking about CreaTures Laboratory of experimental productions. And Chewie.

A TALE OF MORE-THAN-HUMAN FOLLY @ HELSINKI DESIGN WEEK

A Tale of More-than-Human Folly – Presentation at Helsinki Design Week 2022 / Pecha Kucha Night. Questioning the position of more-than-human design as a transformational creative practice.

FOLLOWING SEALS AND DOGS: EXPERIMENTING WITH PERSONAL DIMENSIONS OF TRANSFORMATIVE DESIGN

Exploratory paper at Participatory Design Conference 2022 co-authored with Kirsi Hakio, Tuuli Mattelmäki, Jaz Hee-Jeong Choi & Cristina Ampatzidou. Presented at the More-than-human Collaborative Approaches panel.

OPEN FOREST AT PDC 2022: DATA, STORIES, AND WALKING-WITH

Situated action at Participatory Design Conference (Newcastle, 30th August 2022). Experimental, hybrid forest walk in the Ouseburn area followed by a co-creation of forest stories + exhibition installation; all planted & grown by the Open Forest Collective.

Full paper here.

CREATURES CO-LABORATORY: ENTANGLING CREATIVE PRACTICE AND RESEARCH.

CREATURES CO-LABORATORY: ENTANGLING CREATIVE PRACTICE AND RESEARCH.

CreaTures Co-Laboratory: Entangling Creative Practice and Research -> a moderated panel discussion at the CreaTures Festival, Seville, Spain. Talking with Anab Jain (Superflux), Jana Putrlce Srdić (Kersnikova), Felipe Gonzales Gil (ZEMOS98), Isabel Beavers (Supercollider) & Andrea Botero (Open Forest Collective).

OPEN FOREST AT EARTH SYSTEM GOVERNANCE CONFERENCE

We were invited to talk about our Open Forest walking & feral drifting at the Earth System Governance conference panel The value of creative practices for sustainability transformations: A dialogue about art, power and change between researchers, governing actors, and artists.

DĚLENÍ TĚLA / DIVIDING THE BODY

“O žaludečním zahradničení a trávení (v) mnohosti” // book chapter in Dělení těla. Editors Darina Alster and Piotr Sikora. Akademie výtvarných umění. ISBN: 978-80-88366-20-1

DESIGN RESEARCH JAMBOREE

A week in the hives and forests of Ambleside, figuring out all the Research through Design things.

MORE-THAN-HUMAN FOOD FUTURES COOKBOOK PUBLISHED IN AALTO UNIVERSITY PUBLICATION SERIES

The cookbook contains eleven experimental food futures recipes that aim to provoke imagination and inspire critical thinking on how human-food practices could be different, supporting sustainable flourishing. From a picnic meal reimagining the human body as a resource to slug-driven food governance, the recipes capture co-creative thought experiments of 33 contributors who came together for the two-day workshop Experimental Food Design for Sustainable Futures held online in July 2020.

OPEN FOREST PLANTED AT THE CREATURES FESTIVAL

Open Forest planted in Seville at the CreaTures festival exhibition + Pecha Kucha night.

MORE-THAN-HUMAN FOOD FUTURES COOKBOOK @ CREATURES FESTIVAL

The Cookbook in Seville -> exhibition & 5 minutes snapshot.

CREATURES FESTIVAL IN SEVILLE

The CreaTures Festival – a meeting of the minds and hearts for exchange and ideas for the future of our planet.

CREATIVE. FUTURES. CREATURES.

Creative practices – such as writing, art and theatre, through to participatory community development and storytelling – have the power to change the way we think and act when it comes to the environment.

From Wednesday 29 June to Friday 1 July, the CreaTures Festival in Seville, Spain, will explore the potential and power of creative practices to drive sustainable futures through an exhibition and workshops, guest speakers and conference sessions.

Who should attend?

The festival is open to all and will be of particular interest to people in the creative sector, government, industry, research as well as anyone interested in exploring how creative practices can contribute to socio-ecological transformation.

The festival will be officially opened by the Mayor of Seville, Antonio Muñoz Martínez, on Wednesday 29 June at 18:15 at the Real Fábrica de Artillería.

Explore the full program.

MANAGED OR OUT OF CONTROL? BRIDGING POLICY AND CREATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON NATURE.

A panel discussion organised by the CreaTures project, as the first of three events from the series “From Policy to Feral Worlds – framings of Nature across Policy and Creative Practice”. The series aims to bring together practitioners and thinkers from various backgrounds including art, design, planning, environmental & climate policy, cultural policy, grassroot organising and research to explore porous matters of ecological politics and more-than-human worlds.

The panel was part of the New European Bauhaus Festival.

MORE-THAN-HUMAN FOOD FUTURES COOKBOOK AWARDED AT UMEÅ FOOD SYMPOSIUM

The More-than-Human Food Futures Cookbook co-created within the Experimental Food Design for Sustainable Futures project received a Special Award of the Jury at the Gourmand Awards section of the Umeå Food Symposium 2022.

From the Symposium website:

“Since 1995, the Gourmand Awards bring together the best culinary books of the world. The competition is free, and open to every country, publisher or author, regardless of power or influence. In 25 years, a huge network of professionals has been growing as over 1 500 books are sent every year to participate, adding new members to this large family of food culture lovers. That exponential growth allowed publishers, authors, TV producers, photographers, designers and wine-makers to multiply their contacts around the world.”

More information is available here.

OPEN FOREST GOT A PRIZE

The Open Forest note on walking with forests, dogs & other creatures was appreciated at the GamiFIN2022 conference. Our biggest thanks go to Chewie, the relentless forest guide.
Go (feral), science🐺🌲

Open Forest / CreaTures EU

Uroboros sneaking around Faculty of Architecture and Design @STUBA 🐍

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Together with Michal, we made a nocturnal blitz trip to the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava to talk about the Uroboros festival. It was wild.

ON CREATURES IN SEVILLE

Masterclass de Markéta Dolejšová (Finlandia) impartida el 26 de octubre de 2021 en el marco de ‘Nudos. Jornadas Magallanes ICC para pensar arte, ciencia, tecnología y sostenibilidad’. // Presenting CreaTures at Nudos conference, Seville, Spain.

OPEN FOREST IN ACM INTERACTIONS 🌲

Together with the Open Forest Collective we wrote a short piece about our co-creative forest experiments, discussing the importance of questioning the existing forest data, how it is produced, and by whom. The 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 👀

PAPER @ PIVOT CONFERENCE: FERAL WAYS OF KNOWING AND DOING

Cristina Ampatzidou, Markéta Dolejšová, Jaz Hee-jeong Choi and Andrea Botero Cabrera. 2022. Feral Ways Of Knowing And Doing: Tools And Resources For Transformational Creative Practice. Proceedings of the Pivot 2021 virtual conference, OCAD University, July 22-23, 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21606/pluriversal.2021.0016

OPEN FOREST AT DATA VITALITY

Our Open Forest feral experiment is showcased at the Data Vitality: Soft Infrastructures and Economies of Knowledge exhibition (Aalto University – Dipoli Gallery; 18.11 2021 – 14.02. 2022) 🌲🌲🌲.

EXTREME BIOPOLITICAL BISTRO (IN A BOOK)

Some insights & snapshots from the Extreme Biopolitical Bistro project were published in Speculative.edu brand new book: Beyond Speculative Design: Past – Present – Future

CREATURES @ NUDOS JORNADAS MAGALLANES ICC PARA PENSAR ARTE, CIENCIA, TECNOLOGÍA Y SOSTENIBILIDAD

Proyectos cocreativos para futuros transformadores – a master class at the Nudos conference in Seville // sharing insights from the CreaTures project 🌱🦑

CreaTures - Creatives Practices for Transformational Futures (CreaTures - Prácticas Creativas para Futuros Transformadores) es un proyecto de investigación que explora el poder transformador de las prácticas creativas para desplazar los mundos actuales hacia futuros ecosocialmente sostenibles. CreaTures, que nació hace 3 años (2020-2022), reúne un consorcio interdisciplinar de profesionales creativos e investigadores del mundo del arte, el diseño y las Ciencias Sociales, estructurado alrededor de una serie de producciones experimentales (ExPs: proyectos cocreativos que tienen como objetivo apoyar procesos transformadores sostenibles). La charla se enfocará en el trabajo en curso en torno al codesarrollo y evaluación de los ExPs, y se mostrarán ejemplos de proyectos concretos.

TROUBLING THE IMPACT OF FOOD FUTURE IMAGINARIES @NORDES2021

Wilde, D.*, Dolejšová, M.*, van Gaalen, S., Altarriba Bertran, F., Davis, H. & Raven, P.G. (2021). Troubling the Impact of Food Future Imaginaries. Proceedings of the 2021 Nordic Design Research Conference, No 9 (2021): NORDES 2021: MATTERS OF SCALE, ISSN 1604-9705, pp.115-124. *co-first authors 🍍🍍🍍

DESIGNING FOR TRANSFORMATIVE FUTURES: CREATIVE PRACTICE, SOCIAL CHANGE AND CLIMATE EMERGENCY

Full paper in proceedings of the Creativity and Cognition 2021 conference, co-written with ten amazing creatures. #openaccess

OPEN FOREST AT RESEARCH PAVILION #4: HELSINKI

Open Forest is a participatory artwork performing an experimental inquiry into different forests and forest data-sets. In the Research Pavilion, two Open Forest workshops will be held on June 16th and 17th at 4pm (EEST). Participants will visit remotely the Hyytiälä SMEAR II forest research station, speculate with stories, trees, and data and place them on a feral map.

BYOK [Bring Your Own Kitchen]

BYOK [Bring Your Own Kitchen] – experimental kitchen lab at the Pixelache festival [Helsinki, FI] & kitchens around the world 🥕🥕🥕.

BYOK [Bring Your Own Kitchen] is a week-long series of distributed food design experiments connecting edibles, forests, humans, and other creatures and critters from around the world. Each experimental session invites these participants to come together, share resources and experiences, and co-create recipes for something old or new. We will approach food as a complex composite of substances, processes, experiences, and meanings – both existing and imagined – and collectively respond to various food-related themes (see events details below). We will forage in interconnected forests, cook an ancient grain risotto, sit around a fire, taste the flavors of extinction, explore the boundaries between soil and dirt, and much more. Broadcasted from the Pixelache festival in Helsinki, Finland, the hybrid event is open to everyone, everywhere, via a portal of their choice. All you need to join our hybrid collaborative cooking show is to Bring Your Own Kitchen.

MORE-THAN-HUMAN FOOD FUTURES COOKBOOK

Our More-than-Human Food Futures Cookbook featuring 11 recipes for experimental, sustainable and just food practices is finally here. Proudly cooked with the Feeding Food Futures collectives & friends. Time for a feast, at last!

UROBOROS - DESIGNING IN TROUBLING TIMES, VOL.2

The Uroboros festival invites designers, artists, researchers and other creatives to propose experimental reflections on the festival theme Designing in Troubling Times.

The Uroboros festival is a hybrid experimental inquiry into the transformative potential of design research and practice. The festival theme Designing in Troubling Times is inspired by the ambiguous symbol of Uroboros – a serpent devouring itself and changing its form in an eternal cycle of re-creation, using its own body as fuel. The circular and cyclical Uroboros captures the ambiguity of present technologies and designs for the troubling and troubled times that we are living in. The serpent represents the mythological origins of all our technological promises about eternal returns and the search for utopia. Asking what design can do to support positive change in the world today, the festival explores the cyclical processes of design imagination, innovation, failure and return.

PARLOUR OF FOOD FUTURES AT THE GAMING FOR THE COMMONS FESTIVAL

Parlour presentation at the international festival of social or educational board games Gaming for the Commons [Seville & online, November 2020].

HELSINKI DESIGN WEEK: CREATURES PANEL DISCUSSION

The CreaTures project (Creative Practices for Transformational Futures) demonstrates the power of existing – yet often hidden – creative practices to move the world towards social and ecological sustainability through addressing ways of being and lifestyles. The CreaTures panel at Helsinki Design Week opens a space for discussion about existing and potential roles of creative art and design practices in driving socio-ecological transformations. The five invited panelists will share their experiences and ideas regarding possible pathways towards sustainability. Join us in the discussion! Everyone is welcomed, the online event is cost-free, registration required.

PANELISTS:
- Saija Hollmen, Vice Dean of Art and Creative Practices, Aalto ARTS
- Pirjo Kääriäinen, Associate Professor in Design and Materialities, Aalto ARTS
- Julia Lohmann, Professor of Practice in Contemporary Design, Aalto ARTS
- Kirsikka Vaajakallio, Lead Service Designer, Hellon
- Ali Akbar Mehta, Artistic Director, Museum of Impossible Forms

MODERATORS: Markéta Dolejšová and Namkyu Chun (Postdoctoral Researchers at CreaTures, Aalto ARTS)

FEEDING THE FUTURES OF HUMAN-FOOD INTERACTION

Our article on the futures of HFI co-authored by the Feeding Food Futures (FFF) collective has been published in the September issue of Interactions magazine. 🌶️🌶️🌶️

Details:
Markéta Dolejšová, Hilary Davis, Ferran Altarriba Bertran, and Danielle Wilde. (2020). Feeding the futures of human-food interaction. interactions 27, 5, 34-39

DISRUPTING (MORE-THAN-) HUMAN-FOOD INTERACTION: EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN, TANGIBLES AND FOOD-TECH FUTURES

Our full paper co-authored by Markéta Dolejšová*, Danielle Wilde*, Ferran Altarriba Bertran and Hilary Davis [*co-first authors] got accepted for DIS 2020! [pdf] // Video presentation available here.

EXPERIMENTAL FOOD DESIGN FOR SUSTAINABLE FUTURES - WORKSHOP AT DIS’20

Our 2-day online workshop Experimental Food Design for Sustainable Futures [Fantastic(e)ating Food Futures & More-than-Human Food Practices] organised as part of the ACM Designing Interactive Systems conference is now open & awaiting your proposals 🍕🍕🍕

We will experiment with food as bio-design material and a starting point from which to critically reflect on social and ecological uncertainties.

Send us a short expression of interest describing your existing or planned creative projects addressing food & socio-ecological sustainability issues and come play!

🐷🐷DL for submissions June 21st / Workshop on July 6-7th / ONLINE / Free entry🌭🌭

More info on the web

UROBOROS: DESIGNING IN TROUBLING TIMES

DESIGN-ART FESTIVAL **ONLINE** MAY 13-16, 2020. CURATORIAL PROJECT OF THE ALLTAB COLLECTIVE.

The Uroboros festival explores what and how we can design in these troubling times to support positive change. The festival is part of the #DATAMAZE project.

The festival program included 4 days of online workshops, performances, LARPs, distributed salons, games, discussions, remote co-cookings & drinks, and other co-creative experiments initiated by art/design researchers and practitioners from across the globe.

Covered topics & thematic areas include: more-than-human design, eco-political regeneration, post-growth narratives, post-Anthropocene memorials, food futures, climate wearables, synthetic landscapes, urbanizing the digital, cementics & housing crisis, algorithmic governance, algorithmic poetry, queering binary code, quarantine fiction, filth as non-technology, divination as navigation, psychogeographic driftings, recipe storytelling, and much more.

FEEDING FOOD FUTURES: FROM TECHNO-SOLUTIONISM TO INCLUSIVE HUMAN-FOOD COLLABORATIONS

We welcome abstracts for open panel Feeding Food Futures: From Techno-solutionism to Inclusive Human-Food Collaborations that will be held at the EASST+4S 2020 conference in Prague, August 19-21, 2020. More details about submission criteria and panel scope are available here.

TAROT LAB AT INVISIBLE DRUM - SYMPOSIUM OF SPIRITUAL TECHNOLOGIES WITHIN CREATIVE PRACTICES.

We were excited to present our Tarot Lab project at the 1st Nordic Symposium of Spiritual Technologies within Creative Practices organized by the Invisibledrum Art Platform on 4th-6th February 2020, in Trondheim Rosendal Theater.

DIGESTING ZERO-CARBON SPECULATIONS

3-day Workshop with Sjef van Gaalen at the Institute Integrative Design, FHNW Basel.

Across the world, local and national governments are beginning to realize the impending costs and consequences of anthropogenic climate change, and are drawing up legislative responses. Many of these Green New Deals, Resilient Cities, and other policy plans are functionally speculations, targeted at dates decades into the future. These are often political compromises, lacking the concrete economic and social scaffolding necessary to make their implementation feasible.

In the Design Process workshop Digesting Zero-carbon Speculations we will attempt to respond to these climate-mitigation plans by imagining their plausible implementations as functional climate-resilient food communities. We will create scenarios, models, and prototypes of tools and (infra)structures, considering how these communities might operate (or fail to) if such mitigation plans were implemented to their fullest extent, and pushed even further forward. Human food practices are now recognised as a major driver of climate change. In the workshop they will serve as a context and a starting point from which to explore and articulate values, desires, and worries associated with climate-resilient futures.

Using methods and techniques of performative design fictions, speculations and scenario building, we hope to move beyond simply following (or critiquing) existing climate-oriented legislation plans. Through co-creative design explorations in the food domain and socio-technical systems associated, we want to offer not just dreams of alternative futures but narratives of transition, enabling paths for real-life action in the present. Acknowledging that the world will inevitably change for all of us, we have to bring about realities in which transitions to climate-proof means of surviving and thriving are socially and economically viable and accessible.

TAROT LAB: UNFOLDING

Tarot Lab: Unfolding at GASK. Personal /food/ futures now. Card reading performance with Darina Alster.

NERD: NEW EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH IN DESIGN

THIRD NERD Conference at the Institute of Integrative Design, Academy of Art and Design Basel, FNHW [Nov 1st-2nd, 2019]. Metaphysical workshop, Offjects, the Zoöp, Human-Tree couplings, upcycled urine, Turkish tobacco packets, and also some Edible Speculations.

PARADOXES OF PERSONALIZED NUTRITION & DIET HACKING

Food talk at the 6th Annual Hacker Congress Paralelni Polis (#HCPP19) in Prague

RESEARCH THROUGH DESIGN AT UCC PRAGUE

RtD guest lecture & workshop at the University of Creative Communication Prague

TAROT LAB: WIGWAM.
Tarot Lab at Cross Festival 2019, with Darina Alster

CRAFTING & TASTING ISSUES IN HUMAN-FOOD INTERACTION. Workshop/Walkshop at DIS’19 - gastronauts exploring San Diego’s foodscape & talking food futures.

Human Food Interaction Zine cooked up collectively at our DIS’19 workshop: Crafting & Tasting Issues in Human-Food Interaction. The full zine is here.

PARLOUR OF FOOD FUTURES AT PRIMER’19

Primer’19: Futures for All @ Parsons School of Design

EXE.CUTE THIS. Workshopping out the future of moneys with ALTTAB

FOOD TAROT IN EXTREME BIOPOLITICAL BISTRO

New Food Tarot card deck made for Extreme Biopolitical Bistro session at Biotopia festival.

EXTREME BISTRO @ BIOTOPIA

Our next Extreme Biotopia Bistro lab will take place at the Biotopia EAT festival, Naturkunde Museum Bayern [Munich, May 26th 2019]. At four workshop stations opened throughout the festival day, we’ll experiment with future food scenarios and food tarot cards; craft personalized data-driven recipes; record some chewing samples and teach our AI Chewie bot how to chew like a human; and make electrodible candies using a DIY circuitry and some disgusting sugar syrups.

CHI2019 GLASGOW

Some CHI 2019 fragments: magic machines instead of technology & design unknowns instead of design futures, methodological gifts made for HCI amusement, Internet of Seeds - possibly beyond Anthropocene, evil workshops aiming for introspective design speculations. Consent models are dead and there’s ideology behind everything above. We attended two workshops, one about negative effects of HCI research, other about Inbodied Design.

SMART CITIES IN NORTH BOHEMIA: INTERDISCIPLINARY BOUNDARIES

Speculative design workshop gazing into the abyss of smart cities and interdisciplinary dreaming @ Jan Evangelista Purkyne University.

EDIBLE SPECULATIONS - INTERVIEW FOR SPECULATIVE.EDU

Interview about my speculative design research & practice for the great Speculative.edu project.

SPECULATIVE.EDU WORKSHOP & CONFERENCE

Slovenian design workshopology with SpeculativeEdu 🤖🤖🤖
smelly bots, Amazon cities, human-compost ouroboros, algorithmic love, Impossible baby burgers, and all that speculative stardust.

EDIBLE SPECULATIONS @ DATATATA CONFERENCE

“Digesting the Data: A Three-Course Speculation about Possible Food-Tech Futures” —> talk presented at Datatata, the only conference that has its own dog and altar made of radiators [Brno, CZ, 2019].

EATING THE BASQUE CULINARY CENTER

Culinary field trip & workshopping @ BCC

DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY & HUMAN-FOOD AUTOMATION

Interview for Radio Wave [in Czech].

TAROT LAB

<<<<more info in Tarot Lab zine>>>

A co-authored project of Darina Alster & Markéta Dolejšová + guest Richie Cyngler. A fusion of authors’ long-term work and their art-design investigations of the liminal borders between human and machine; speculation and everyday reality; archetypes and futuristic ideologies.

In her Personal Tarot, Darina Alster explores the medium of Tarot in the context of modern technologies. Darina’s prophecies take the form of video performance and software theater play. Using old-school mobile phone apparati, her audience can engage in direct encounters with various Tarot archetypes. Each Personal Tarot card has a phone number that you can dial and contemplate possible futures of yourself or, maybe, someone else. For Markéta Dolejšová, Tarot is a methodological tool for a research inquiry into the possible futures of food, science, and technology. Her Parlour of Food Futures imagines, how will emerging digital technologies change everyday human practices around cooking, eating, and digesting. What will be the next foodie trend, the Ethical Cannibalism, Gastro Masochism, or Gut Gardening? Would you like to be a Food Psychonaut? Would Turing Foodies trust each other? Is your neighbor a Monsta[n]tanist? Richie Cyngler’s Urban Oracle is a hybrid digital divination tool as well as a critical reflection on network culture, and interactive performance and installation work. Do we own our devices or do they own us? “Does the user control the software? Does the software control the user?” Can we collaborate with our devices and applications? Can they help us to transcend? What can we know and what do we really want to know?

Tarot Lab is a performative techno-oracle opened as part of the GASK - Galerie Středočeského kraje program: “Stavy mysli / Za obrazem - Obměny a Intervence” (curator: Richard Drury). During the Tarot Lab installation, we will perform a series of Tarot seances opened to the general public. The Tarot Lab portal will ceremonially open on March 23rd, 2019 and remain accessible for the upcoming year. Throughout the year, the Lab authors will be coming back to re-perform more Tarot interventions together with various public and capture the changes of human/food/machine progress in time.

DATA VS. FOOD

Panel talk about the present and anticipated roles of digital technology and data in food cultures @ DOX Center for Contemporary Art Prague

EDIBLE SPECULATIONS ZINE

This zine is a distilled extract of my dissertation, where I introduced Edible Speculations — a methodological approach to human-food interaction research addressing the growing role of digital technologies in food cultures. The zine aims to quickly outline the approach and discuss key findings from six selected case studies that formed the Edible Speculations fieldwork (2014-18).

On and Off the Table: Re-Imagining Food and Wine Interactions

On and Off the Table: Re-Imagining Food and Wine Interactions —> workshop at 2018 Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction (OzCHI'18), ACM [pdf].

Parlour of Food Futures @OzCHI’18

Parlour of Food Futures: Future Food Forecasting as Tarot Prophecies @ 2018 Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction (OzCHI'18)

Edible Speculations @ VVitchVVaVVe Post Digital Aesthetics Symposium

Edible Speculations @ VVitchVVaVVe Post Digital Aesthetics Symposium, Melbourne. Big thankzzz to the Curators —-> Nancy Mauro-Flude & Tom Penney [RMIT Digital Media] <3

EDIBLE SPECULATIONS: DESIGNING FOR HUMAN-FOOD INTERACTION

—-> Ph.D. thesis cooked, served, well digested, everybody alive <—-

Edible Speculations was a fantastic journey full of messy and hearty human-food interactions. I could not have done this without all of you — my friends, mentors, and partners in crime — who spent days and nights cooking the following pages with me. Thank you for sharing your stories over the endless piles of unpeeled HotKarots and imagining your Food Tarot futures. Thank you for sitting down with me to speculate about food, design, and everyday life around that. You made me a dinner when I only saw the bits on my screen. You showed me the forest when I was short of breath. You woke me up every time I went down the rabbit hole to have yet another tea party. Thank you for being patient and having the guts to walk through this with me. Now we can finally go out to eat and talk about something else. <3

ALT.TAB: SPECULATIVE DESIGN MEETUP PRAGUE

Alt.Tab —> speculate like a Bohemian. 1st critical & spec design meetup in Prague [[b e g i n n i n g ]].

DESIGNING RECIPES FOR SUSTAINABLE FOOD FUTURES

Food futures workshop with Creative Coding Utrecht /October 2018/ —> pictures & stuff

HUMUS SAPIENS: FERMENTING SPECULATIVE FOOD HISTORIES

Workshop and retreat in Kunstverein Wagenhalle; with Gasthaus: Fermentation and Bacteria, MikroBIOMIK and Hackteria.

/ kombucha hotels / kimchi punk / wild tepache / confused deities / fermented allohistories / herbal zines / mushroom tshirts / emo soils / analogue food pairing / daphnien noise und umkraut überall /

EDIBLE SPECULATIONS IN THE PARLOUR OF FOOD FUTURES

Alt.CHI speculations about future of food and design research —-> at CHI 2018, Montreal.

CHI 2018 WORKSHOP: DESIGNING RECIPES FOR DIGITAL FOOD FUTURES

Our CHI 2018 food workshop on Human-Food Interaction co-organized with Hilary Davis. Food cultures, uncertain futures, food materialities, and food art-design-research frictions. Do food practitioners [want to] belong to HFI community? Maybe…we speculated about that. And made some DIY Food Tarot cards from local food waste and foraged milkweed seeds.

EDIBLE SPECULATIONS: DESIGNING FOR DIGITAL FOOD CULTURES

A guest lecture about my [still very speculative and imaginary] Edible Speculations PhD project at NUS - Digital Art & Culture Seminar.

FOOD CHI 2017

Speaking about the Edible Speculations PhD project at the Food CHI 2017 conference. We played around with some Food Tarot speculations too!

DIGITAL FOOD CULTURES SYMPOSIUM

data-driven food lifestyles / quantified diets / selfoodies / disruption of food critique / You are what you Instagram / bits of authenticity / ‘local’ food

convened by Deborah A. Lupton I University of Canberra I October 2017 I #digfc

NURTURING SPECULATION IN SERVICE DESIGN

Article Published in ACM Interactions XXIV.5 September - October 2017

INTERNET OF MICROBES: KRAUTSOURCING FOOD SHARING IDEAS

a wild brew of hands-on workshops and open discussion on food sharing in Smart Cities.

MICROBITES OF INNOVATION

ART TRACK OF CREATIVITY & COGNITION [CURATED WITH NANCY MAURO-FLUDE]

FOOD FUTURES SALON

SUNDAY GUT GARDENING & GASTRO MASOCHISM
RandomBlends exhibition @ ArtScience Museum Singapore

HOTKAROT & OPENSAUCE: EDIBLE STORYTELLING & DESIGN SPECULATIONS

Paper accepted for the 3nd Biennial Research Through Design Conference, Edinburgh, March 2017.

FUTURE OF FOOD IN THE DIGITAL REALM

Khot, R., Lupton, D., Dolejšová, M., Mueller, F. The Future of Food In the Digital Realm —> Paper accepted for CHI'17 Special Interest Group (SIG) Meeting.

MICROBIAL MARCH

[FOR A FREE MOVEMENT OF CULTURES] –> a living fermentation lab inviting everyone to reconnect with their bodies and environment through gut microbes

SOYLENT DIET SELF-EXPERIMENTATION

DESIGN CHALLENGES IN EXTREME CITIZEN SCIENCE PROJECTS
@ CSCW17 Portland

THE PARLOR OF FOOD FUTURES

Speculative Design project @ Emerge: a Festival of Futures 2017, Arizona State University

SOYLENT HEALTH SELF-EXPERIMENTATION

A guest lecture @ Digital Art and Culture Seminar, National University of Singapore

HOW TO FERMENT [ALMOST] ANYTHING

A 1920’s Czechoslovak guide to pickling and preserving. Gut Cookbook!

HOLY GUT PILGRIMAGE

food geeks meetup in Poland

MICROBPHONE: PICKLED ORCHESTRA WITH BAGPIPES

Fermented sonic circuits [noise performance with Marek Svoboda & Cindy Lin]

QUANTIFIED SELF-EXPERIMENTATION AND HEALTH HACKING

Guest lecture talk at the Culture of New Media seminar at Charles University Prague

FOOD VOICES OF TRANSITION: DISCO SOUP DIALOGUES & FILM SCREENING

Workshop at Hackerspace SG [trash talks on food waste - trash disco beets]

DIGITAL HEALTH & SELF-EXPERIMENTATION @ CHI17

Workshop on quantified health self-experimentation, self-tracking, and health data sharing accepted for CHI17 conference.

Hackteria BYOP (Bring Your Own Poop) Lab at Dongdaemun Plaza, Seoul, South Korea 31.10-7.11.2016

FERMENTATION GUTHUB & THE INTERNET OF MICROBES

A book chapter published in Enriching Urban Spaces with Ambient Computing, the Internet of Things, and Smart City Design

A LITTLE RED DOT SPECU-NATION

Incubating Smart Nation Fictions & Speculations [Research talk at National University Singapore]

Soylent Diet Self-Experimentation: Design Challenges in Extreme Citizen Science Projects. Paper co-authored w Denisa Kera accepted for CSCW'17.