One Forest

The studio began with a fundamental premise of reading and ‘re-presenting’ a landscape. The students learned skills of representing and analysing landscapes. The studio enabled them to define, strategize and imagine a response to the landscape. Forests can be understood as relationships of geography, soil, climate and vegetation, but are more than this. The studio investigates a forest and attempts to look at it from a multidimensional perspective, looking at multiple sites to observe, investigate and develop ways of understanding.

The studio was divided into three parts:

1. Reading and representing - ways of observing, recording, interpreting the forest through drawings, including material, spatial, and temporal qualities connections to larger networks.
2. Imagining and constructing - Using the previously produced ‘re- presentation’ as an anchor, the studio explores acknowledging and engaging with the forest.

Intervening - examining speculative and spatial ways of intervening in the forest through contextual ‘design’ explorations.