New Fuller Design Fellowship Talk with Liska Chan

Forest Fashion; Visual Culture and Production of Space

Co-presenters: David Buckley Borden and Liska Chan

Forest Fashion; Visual Culture and Production of Space explores the practical intersection of ecology, art, and design through the lens of a maker-based environmental-communication project developed at the Fuller Initiative for Productive Landscapes at the University of Oregon. This co-authored talk by David Buckley Borden (Fuller Design Fellow) and Liska Chan (Director, Fuller Initiative for Productive Landscapes) explores “Forest Fashion,” a speculative landscape-futures collaboration inspired by the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest. This critical creative work explores the unfolding Anthropocene at the confluence of culture and ecology within the forests of the Pacific Northwest. Through a narrative accompanied by images of clothing, bags, water bottles, map cases, and camp furniture made by members of the collaborative, we interrogate the interdisciplinary approach to environmental communication at the junction of creativity, education, and landscape-ready fashion. The lecture demonstrates how ethos, shaped by the visual culture of fashion, impacts the production of space in a precarious age. Information for booking public lectures can be found here.