See-Shore
My Shoreline Clean Up
Designed by Gillian Russell, Jihyun Park, Katherine Reilly, Ryland Shaw, and Melanie Vidakis
The project proposed a process for reimagining shoreline cleanups as a practice that cultivates ocean futures literacies and builds capacity and collective sense making toward ocean sustainability. A group of citizen-scientists were invited to conduct their own shoreline cleanups while testing out a series of custom reflection tools, props, and activities.
The completed kits communicated their current understanding the life of marine debris, as well as implicitly unveiling the disconnection people have with their own interconnectedness with and responsibility to marine ecosystems.
OFISH
Designed by Gillian Russell, Jihyun Park, Lauren Thu, and Katherine Reilly
For Ocean Week 2024 The Imaginative Methods Lab set up the Ocean Futures Imagination Station Hub (OFISH) on Vancouver’s Sea Wall. The installation featured a series of activities which prompted visitors and passersby to think creatively and imaginatively about the future of the ocean. Designed as an Interpretation Centre of the future, OFISH merges scientific fact with creative speculation.
Visitors were invited to engage with custom futuring tools, such as The False Creek Observatory – a map depicting signals of change, Conversation Cards- depicting reflections on human-nature relationships, and Fast Forward – a series of community visons for futures of False Creek.
The project aims to increase awareness about human-nature entanglements and how our daily actions are connected to the ocean, to empower the public to express their hopes and dreams for the future of False Creek, and to engage the community in a new conversation about marine challenges through more-than-human centric mindsets.