The village where we are based in western New York has seen a decline in the forest canopy. I have personally seen the removal of more than 50 trees on a .5 km street in the decade that I have lived here. Working with street trees is a major undertaking and presents the multi-faceted type […]
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Recombinant Flora Workshop Outcome
Recombinant Flora Workshop
We are pleased to announce a workshop that we will be running at this year’s Research Through Design Conference. This workshop invites participants to explore wellbeing – generating new knowledge, interpretations and definitions of Field research and design practice combine in the Recombinant Flora Workshop. The collaborative Designers and Forests will lead an exploration of […]
Lawn of the Dead! A public workshop
We have long admired the work of Roger Tory Peterson and will look at how he used design, as well as art, to advocate for conservation. It has been said that if you compared the average American lawn to a desert, the desert would win easily with much greater life and species diversity. Keeping up […]
Call for Participants for Hidden Frontiers!
Designers and Forests looks to the deciduous forest of the eastern United States for its second major project. Here we will explore the problems and opportunities with in rural New York and northern Pennsylvania forests—a frontier that once defined America and that is now hidden in history. Through a two week workshop, a diverse team […]
Designers and Forests featured in Disegno Magazine
Forests as Idea Generator in Disegno Magazine No. 6 feature looks at different designers who find inspiration in the materials and processes found in the forest environment. The article features interviews with project founders Jason Dilworth, Megan Urban, and Daniel Byström as they talk about the influence of forests themselves, and the economic and ecological issues facing communities dependent […]
