{"id":42879,"date":"2024-10-21T11:53:25","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T09:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/odprtehiseslovenije.org\/?p=42879"},"modified":"2024-10-21T11:54:38","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T09:54:38","slug":"about-the-project-forest-encounters-podcast-odprto-34","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/odprtehiseslovenije.org\/en\/about-the-project-forest-encounters-podcast-odprto-34\/","title":{"rendered":"About the project Forest Encounters – Podcast Odprto #34"},"content":{"rendered":"

Forests cover approximately 44 % of the total landmass of the EU (Eurostat, 2020). They are crucial for the mitigation of the climate crisis and the preservation of biodiversity. Forests function as an important public space, especially in cities and their proximity. They offer, as we realized acutely during the Covid-19 pandemic, a necessary space for regeneration and recreation. Forests also provide important local economic resources, and significantly contribute to the cultural identity of many EU member states. However, the forest is also important as a value in and of itself, but forest ecosystems are becoming more and more vulnerable and threatened by the effects of climate change, urbanization, and economy-driven deforestation.<\/p>\n

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Workshop on the overgrowth of the forest on terraces that were previously used for agriculture, carried out in collaboration with the Biotechnical Faculty and Robida. Topolo, April 2024; Photographs: Elena Chirila, Ur\u0161ka Jurman, Mateja Kurir, Tim Gerdin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Forest Encounters<\/a>, European cooperation project (2023\u20132025), explores and proposes diverse imaginaries, concepts, and practices around the questions: What and how can we learn with and through the forest? What are and could be human encounters with forests? How can we better coexist with the forest? What role art and culture can play in this? What kind of forest do we wish for and need in the future? What do we need to make that happen?<\/p>\n

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Exhibition by Polonca Lov\u0161in, Forest in Women’s Hands and Mushrooms at the End of the World, at the gallery of the Slovenian Forestry Institute. December 2023; Photographs: Domen Pal.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The growing urgency of the environmental and climate crisis forces us to rethink our relationship with forests. The Forest Encounters project acknowledges both the human and other-than-human perspectives, the rights of humans to nature and the rights of nature and \u2013 through artistic research projects, workshops, storytelling, symposia, publications, and exhibitions \u2013 aims to contribute to a more inclusive and close-to-nature future.<\/p>\n

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Forest Encounters Symposium led by Ur\u0161ka Jurman and Mateja Kurir, with guests: Teo Hrvoje Or\u0161ani\u010d, Maja Simoneti, Borbala Soos, Agata A. Konczal, Ana Ku\u010dan, Giovanni Aloi. December 2023; Photographs: Nada \u017dgank.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n