Forest Carbon Futures
Designed by Hannah Carpendale
Forest Carbon Futures is a body of design research that explores creative ways of fostering critical data literacies around the entangled crises of biodiversity loss and climate change.
Compelled by the dire and worsening impacts of industrial forestry on biodiversity, the climate, community wellbeing, this project aims to re-frame prevalent mis/dis-information that justifies and entrenches unsustainable forestry practices, and instead convey the complex, mycelial role of forest carbon in our lives and its implications for forest stewardship and our collective futures.
Through a series of collaborative projects that draw from different creative practices and forms of data representation – from data comics to data art installations, to ways of performing with data – Forest Carbon Futures is contributing an array of resources and artworks aimed at fostering deeper understanding and active engagement around forest and climate data while highlighting our stewardship responsibility and collective agency.
In this way, we aim to support diverse communities in navigating the public and political discourse around forest land use and stewardship and bringing about meaningful change for the futures of forests, the climate, and communities.
Forest Carbon Futures is supported through funding by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).
