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Selected Projects: NAVET Festival 2023

Meet the selected teams and get to know the projects they're working on as part of NAVET Festival 2023!
Update - October 2024: We are adding snapshots of each team's progress in conceptualisation and development here as well!

In December 2023, we announced 6 teams who have been shortlisted by professors at NAVET to realise the vision for their entries. The announcement was made as part of the events held at Tekniska Museet as part of NAVET Week 2023. 

The six projects are:

Presenting the shortlisted projects that are currently working to make their visions a reality! These projects will be open to the public at Tekniska Museet on 11 October 2024. 

The Projects: 

BARK: A balancing act between the artificial and nature

Thematic Picture for installation 'BARK'

Project Brief

An exploration of nature through the circus arts. Inspired by the forest's infinite curves, BARK is an innovative shape circus apparatus. Through the curves, BARK envelopes the tree, the heart of the forest. Bark, a durable strong protecting layer that is essential to the survival of the tree. What lies inside of the protecting bark? This leads us to question, what lies inside of our mind when we are in the forest? Embodying our thoughts, BARK becomes a magnifying glass that helps us discover the wonders of the forest. Through our performance we invite the audience to explore and rethink their relationship with nature.

Project Members:

  • Alva Harju Jansson SKH, co-creative director, artist

  • Lucile Fleurial SKH, co-creative director, artist

  • Christine Nordqvist KTH, engineering consultant

Project Progress - Behind the Scenes!

Members of BARK performing tests with their self-constructed curved-shape circus apparatus
Members of BARK performing tests with their self-constructed curved-shape circus apparatus
GIF of Members experimenting with their work - in action.
Members experimenting with their work - in action.
Media Credits: Team 'BARK'

No Tree Is An Island

Illustrative Image for the project 'No Tree Is An Island'

Project Brief

Communication builds resilience. Explore the vital linkages of mycorrhizal networks and the pivotal role of hub trees through this interactive multimedia installation. What can hub trees teach us not only about our connection to, and treatment of, the forest but also about our connection to each other? By witnessing, interacting with and performing the communicative mechanisms of the hub trees with its following mycorrhizal network, we become inspired to reevaluate how we may build bridges to one another, creating a resilient society. As the saying goes, no man is an island.

Project Members

Klara Vedin (KTH): Research and idea development
Karl Simu (KTH): Computing and electronics
Leo Eltes (KMH): Sound and visual design

Project Progress - Behind the Scenes!

BTS pictures: their sketches, their built prototype, work in progress snapshot
Photo credits (top, centre): Jonas Eltes
GIF of the moving parts in their prototype
Media Credits: Team 'No Tree is an Island'

Is Our Relationship With/To The Forest Enough?

Banner Image for Project 3

Project Brief/Pitch:

Like in a dream we swim alongside deer's, mushrooms, trees, flies and squirrels, cruising through the forest. The forest is more than a place that we can name, a living meshwork of entities, a fluid concept. There is no consensus on what a forest is and why it should be one, we are rather many.

In times of war(s) on people and forests, we want to invite humans and more-than-humans, to come together in a forest way to witness, socialize and play with each other, our bodies technologies and the desire to transgress the modern-colonial narrative that centers (white) human needs, enables abusive exploitation and erases the rights and lives of you, dear fellows. As we know, our relations are in need of structural changes towards reciprocity and respect to get on together. Join us in this children and adult-friendly practice!

Project Members

  • Aymara v.Borries Bisbicus, SKH-Dance Performance, Role: Choreographer, performance-artist

  • Sarah Hanses, SKH-Dance Performance, Role: Choreographer, performance-artist
  • Malena Mogwitz, Exchange student from USN (Norway) at GIH, Role: Storywriter, Artist, Philosophical Thought Provider on Human- Nature-Relationships
  • Eli Ulfhammer, KMH, Role: musician & composer, visual-artist.
  • Gabriel Ferntoft, KMH, Role: musician & composer, designer and creator of the forest- instruments.
     

Project Progress - Behind the Scenes!

Collage of BTS pictures for the project
Forest Collage Image (top) Credits: Eli Ulfhammer
GIF of a project member experimenting with sounds from tapping on a treebark with an apparatus
GIF of a team member attaching a component onto a wooden bark
Media Credits: Team 'Is Our Relationship With/To The Forest Enough?'

Biopoetic Morphing: Reforming the forest-human communication

Illustrative image and team members' names written for the project 'Biopoetic Morphing'

Project Aim

How do we communicate with the forest when we are no longer prioritizing human interests and values? How does the forest perceive us and our actions? Exploring these questions, *Biopoetic Morphing* envisions a digital slice of the forest’s intrinsic vitality, aesthetics, and values that are not usually recognized from a human-centered point of view.
A multimedia digital space is created for the forest, through which we depict the forest as a conscious being that has its own musical and visual expressions; the forest’s agency is also embodied in its interaction between visitors, while visitors make attempts to touch it. Visitors are encouraged to explore the relationship between their actions and responses from the"forest" space, spontaneously creating a state of equilibrium, thereby evoking profound reflection and contemplation on the relationship between us humans and nature.

Project Members

  • Xuehua Fu, KTH, Role: System engineer
  • Yuqing Tang, Konstfack, Role: Spatial designer, Sound designer
  • Jingkun Qiao, Konstfack, Role: Visual designer
  • Yuanyang Ren, KTH, Role: Interaction designer

Project Progress - Behind the Scenes!

Renders from the team's project building stages
GIF of the team's efforts in electronic prototyping
GIF of the team's efforts in electronic prototyping
GIF of the team's efforts in electronic prototyping
Media Credits: Team 'Biopoetic Morphing'
Art concepts developed by Yuqing Tang, Jingkun Qiao, Xuehua Fu
The complex and intertwining relationship between us and the forest takes shape as a space of reflection and contemplation. Noticing the movement of ourselves, noticing the morphing of the forest. We are intentionally separated, but in the end, we are one. Artists: Yuqing Tang, Jingkun Qiao, Xuehua Fu

Listen To The Forest/ Memories Of Forests

Illustrative image of the project "Listening to the Forest"

Project Brief

Listening to the Forest will be an audio-visual installation that explores memories of forests. It combines narratives from foresters alongside technological interpretations of the forest itself. Sensors and transducers will be used to translate vibrations and electrical signals into sound. The work aims to show how technology can be used to perceive dimensions of these diverse forests that are not directly accessible to our senses. By recording not just the sounds of the forest but also the ways humans interact with it, the project seeks to create a dialogue that explores the relationship between humans and nature, and nature in humans.
 

Project Members

  • Helena Linder Miñambres, KTH
  • Anna Neander, KTH
  • Roya Naini, KMH
     

Project Progress - Behind the Scenes!

Picture of members in a forest, sampling sounds
Picture Credits: Team 'Listen To The Forest/ Memories Of Forests'

Human Echoes in the Forest: An audiovisual exposition of human’s disruption to nature's equilibrium

Poster for the project "Human Echoes in the Forest" with conceptual art

Project Brief

An audiovisual installation of human’s

disruption to natures equilibrium.

We’re integral to the system, yet often

behave as if we’re separate.

The interactive exhibition, ‚Human Echoes in the Forest,’ aims to illuminate the power dynamics between humanity and nature through both observant and active engagement.

Within this space, visitors’ participation disrupts the ecosystem, symbolizing capitalism's relentless exploitation of forest vitality.

Through sight and sound, guests are invited to explore the balance and its disturbances, immersing themselves in the forest's breath and destruction. An active element involves both museum visitors and remote participants in a forest game that directly interferes with the installation at the Techniska Museet. This creates a dynamic experience where visitors can reflect on their individual and societal roles in the forest's degradation.

The installation offers a poetic invitation to reflect on our coexistence with the planet, urging a choice between preservation and destruction.

We are Natalie Linya Arnold and Siyu Wu from KTH University in Stockholm. What connects us both is our study in Interactive Media Technology and the passion for the modality of interactions that shape immersive experiences. With backgrounds spanning both visual and sonic mediums, we aimed to explore new areas within this theme of the exhibition.

Project Members

  • Natalie Arnold, KTH, Role: Visual room's design and production. Transforming the space into a visual representation of the forest, integrating virtual and artistic overlays to simulate the experience of walking among trees. Designing the interactive system.
  • Siyu Wu, KTH, Role: Auditory and interaction Designer. Design and production of the auditory room. Focusing on crafting a unique soundscape that allows visitors to experience the forest through sound. Designing the interactive system.

Project Snapshots

Conceptual Image of participants interacting with the exhibit
Snapshot of developed UI for the exhibition
Representative image of a girl listening to sounds with headphones while immersed in a forest
Picture Credits: Team 'Human Echoes in the Forest'

Reported by: Roberto Bresin, Kajol Rafi
Web Update by: Kajol Rafi
Pictures and Media by: Participants of respective teams