Understory 1-12

Vienna, Bristol, Oslo, Kuopio, 2012

Embark on an exploration – part adventure, part workshop. 

Twelve interactive experiences created in collaboration with local experts, exploring how we relate to nature.

  • Tuulastas (night fishing), Karhonsaari, Kuopio, Finland. Photo: Pekka Makinen

  • Wild Ungulates, Wienerwald, Vienna, Austria. Photo: Florian Rainer

  • Botany, Wienerwald, Vienna, Austria. Photo: Florian Rainer

  • Decomposition, Woodchester Park, Gloucestershire, UK. Photo: Oliver Rudkin

  • Human-Nature-Relationships, Wienerwald, Vienna, Austria. Photo: Florian Rainer

  • The Canopy, Woodchester Park, Gloucestershire, UK. Photo: Oliver Rudkin

Embark on an exploration – part adventure, part workshop. 

Twelve interactive experiences created in collaboration with local experts, exploring how we relate to nature. Each experience was designed to offer small groups of the Up to Nature Festival audience the opportunity to engage directly with their natural surroundings and activate them to ‘performatively’ explore their connection to the natural world around them. Over several months of work, our ideas and the experts’ knowledge combined, to create a dozen 2-3 hour ‘workshops’, in which participants were led through a unique, live experience.

Wienerwald, Vienna, Austria
1: Human-Nature-Relationships with Andreas Muhar
2: Botany  with Margarita Lachmayer and David Prehsler
3: Wild Ungulates with Andreas Duscher

Woodchester Park, Gloucestershire, UK

4: The Canopy with Rol Heming and Jez Cock
5: Decomposition with Dr Fiona Gill
6: Arborglyphs with Chantel Summerfield

Studenterhytta, Nordmarka, Oslo, Norway 

7: Mushroom Hunting with Pål Karlsen
8: Allemannsretten with Marianne Reusch
9: Biodiversity with Arnodd Håpnes

Karhonsaari, Kuopio, Finland 

10: Fishing with Esko Pekkarinen
11: Orienteering with Markku Ruotsalainen
12: Weaving with Anelma Savolainen