I am off to Helsinki to attend the Tealemetree Workshop that is part of the Climate Whirl Project being led by artist Agnes Meyer-Brandis (http://www.ffur.de)! I was very excited and honored to be accepted as one of the 15 participants of the workshop. I am not quite sure what to expect, but I am excited to partake in the project, meet some new and interesting people and spend some time in the Finnish woods!
Photo from http://www.ffur.de/tealemetree
The following information is also taken from the projects webstite at http://www.ffur.de/tealemetree
University of Helsinki / Department of Forest Sciences and Department of Physics, Capsulaand Institute of Art and Subjective Scienceinvites students and professionals of science, life sciences, arts, design, crafts and architecture for a three day workshop inHyytiälä Forestry Field Station, Hyytiälä, Finland 29th - 31st August 2014.
The workshop will be lead by internationally awarded artist Agnes Meyer-Brandis from Berlin, Germany.
Workshop Outline
The workshop starts as an expedition into the forest and the SMEAR Research Station in Hyytiälä, in central Finland. It continues as a journey into the soil, into the trees, into the clouds and the hovering matter in between, finally leading the participants into the realm of smallness.We will investigate the experiments and data production archieved at the forest-research station of Hyytiälä. We will develop our own experiments and take samples of the invisible. On the way we will collect berries, data, aerosols and questions and try to trade and communicate them. As this communication ideally would be mutual between the harvesters and the harvested we might have to develop new languages. Beside that we are going to have a tea with a tree.
The workshop is part of ongoing "Climate Whirl project" and has been supported by Kone Foundation, University of Helsinki, Aalto Biofilia and Institute of Art and Subjective Science.
Climate Whirl is a collaborative project by Department of Forest Sciences and Department of Physics (University of Helsinki), Simosol Oy and Capsula.
Climate Whirl is a dialogue between science, art, education and software design. It aims at introducing a holistic view on climate and ecosystem research and to increase public awareness on the interactions between climate and forests, as well as on the role of boreal forests in climate change.