Thinking with Forest Through Sound

2.4.2025
17.00–19.00
Titanik, Turku

How do we listen to the forest? How do its rhythms, resonances, and silences shape our understanding of it? This evening conversation brings together scientists and artists whose work engages with nature’s sounds, signals, and interactions. Through their practices, they observe, witness, and participate in the intricate dynamics of forest ecologies, exploring how humans—through listening, sensing, and acting—have always been entangled with the forest in profound ways.

As forests undergo rapid transformations, how can we attune ourselves to their changing realities? Can we expand and diversify what “forest” means today? This discussion invites us to reflect on how we listen—not only to sound but to the multitudes of presence and absence that make up a forest.

The conversation will be facilitated by artist Mareike Dobewall and curator Taru Elfving, with invited scientists and artists. Dialogue partners include artist Lotta Petronella, philosopher Helena Siipi, artists Tuike and Simo Alitalo, and scientist Anna Lintunen. We welcome participants to join the conversation, sharing their own experiences of listening to the forest.

This event is part of the Great Forest Dialogue Day, organised by Kone Foundation’s Metsän puolella initiative and DialogiAkatemia, and hosted by Titanik and CAA.