- New alliances
The Extended Forest is a vision for a new form of landscape that radically rethinks how we might act as architects in our approach to the guardianship of the natural world. Our work confronts urgent conflicts in the present through performance, action, and long-term strategic thinking through virtual spaces and character design. The Extended Forest is a future landscape in the virtual world that tackles issues of education and environmental protection in an era of worldwide isolation and constant online connection. The guardianship of our natural environment is a responsibility that reaches beyond political borders, cultures, and languages. Mythology used to guide people in environmental protection through storytelling, performances, and rituals. Today science struggles to influence the values and behavior methods of our current society. The Extended Forest borrows from traditional character design techniques and storytelling methodologies to encourage generational conversations.
The world is operated by the Guardians.
The Guardians are artificial personalities and intelligence with specific agendas, who inhabit the virtual environment. Their role is to curate and re-tell the gathered narratives. They exist as architectural elements and anthropomorphic characters. They are emerging design tools of guardianship with a specific tone of voice.
The digital platform is an ever-evolving space for information, where memories and narratives accumulate over time about forestry. The virtual world of the Extended Forest acts as a parallel civic space for thematic debates about forestry practices. Virtual platforms have the power to actively engage with people globally over time. It is a transforming medium to share and archive knowledge, data, and personal stories.
The architecture of the Extended Forest is a spatial language, which applies color, texture, geometry, and atmospheric qualities to establish a navigational system in an endless virtual void.
