How can soundscapes be used as a way to attend to forest life and the many different ways of narrating and relating to forests, forest issues and forest protection and restoration efforts?
The forestscapes project aims to explore and document generative arts-based methods for recomposing collections of sound materials to support “collective inquiry” into forests as living cultural landscapes.
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If you’re interested in collaborating or hosting a forestscapes workshop you can contact: forestscapes@publicdatalab.publicdatalab.org
For more see:
- Introducing forestscapes and open call for forest sounds (January 2023)
- Listening to forests: new project explores soundscapes as method for ecological research (April 2023)
- Engaging communities in studying environmental change, Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities, University of Bergen (April 2023)
- forestscapes software scripts for open source supercollider (April 2023)
- forestscapes software scripts for open source monome norns (April 2023)
- Environmental Data, Media, and the Humanities hackathon at University of Potsdam (May 2023)
- forestscapes listening lab at re:publica 23, Berlin (June 2023)
- forestscapes at Seeking Connection exhibition in London (November 2023 – January 2024)
- forestscapes at EASST-4S 2024 (July 2024)
- forestscapes spotlight as part of critical forest studies collaboratory digital planting (November 2024)
- forestscapes listening room as part of Pulse of the Planet at Science Gallery London (March 2025)
- forestscapes exhibition at More-than-human mappings, Livingmaps Network Conference, University of London (April 2025)
The forestscapes project is pollinated by the Department of Geography, the Department of Digital Humanities, the Centre for Digital Culture, the Centre for Attention Studies, the Digital Futures Institute and the Environmental Humanities Network at King’s College London with support from the UK’s Natural Environmental Research Council.