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Art Creates Infinite Value

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Karhuoja Collective has found traces of a lost civilisation.

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Art Creates Infinite Value

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Karhuoja Collective has found traces of a lost civilisation.

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Art Is the way

Imagine an empty land in the center of Manhattan.

Then imagine a Museum of Modern Art in the same plot.

It is so obvious that art increases the value of the land and same logic can be used to increasing the value of the forest. In addition to finding scientific and anthropological ways to increase the value – fornemus and more specifically Karhuoja Collective has started a pseudoscientific – metaphysical and multimodal art project to create value to the forest.

 

 

* ------"Art Is The Way"

Karhuoja Collective has found traces and actual remains of the lost civilisation from the land that is south from Karhutunturi and in the slopes of Kuutsivaara. The actual location is yet secret. In order to validate the findings we have started a multimodal project where various skills and competencies are creating their own paths. Maybe – just maybe – in the future we understand the big narrative.

The traits of exploration are: Biology and empirical studies, archeology, mysticism and witchcraft, semiotics and folklore, visual and AI art.

Karhuoja Collective has found traces and actual remains of the lost civilisation from the land that is south from Karhutunturi and in the slopes of Kuutsivaara. The actual location is yet secret. In order to validate the findings we have started a multimodal project where various skills and competencies are creating their own paths. Maybe – just maybe – in the future we understand the big narrative.

The traits of exploration are: Biology and empirical studies, archeology, mysticism and witchcraft, semiotics and folklore, visual and AI art.

Forests As A Travel Destination

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We humans like to travel

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Forests As A Travel Destination

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We humans like to travel

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Travel is great but it has chellenges

The travel industry is a straightforward way to places and countries to increase the value. We travel because we want to get away, want to experience new, want to see, take photos and learn something new. But at the same time travel has many negative impacts to nature. Flying is not the most sustainable way of travelling and our impact to the environment is dramatic.

Come to finnish forest

The nature and its wonders is a destination to travels. We have created national parks for us to get in to the ‘wild’ and reflect our relationships with the nature. But there is a need for more travel. This year 2023 Europe has faced extreme heat, the water reserves are low. . The nature’s limits are here and humans are bound to seek for places where the power of the sun is not burning, where the air and wind is clean.

* ------Forest in Finland is a healing place. You just have to look at the map and see where the weather is perfect But at the same time the nature in Finland is very delicate.

Travels that truly matters

The idea is to find experiences, transformative experiences that makes the travel truly matter. Therefore just flying in to the edge of the forest is not enough but the true value is created when travellers me and you are taken into the depths of the forest, to immerse itse beautiful aura to transform and heal us.

Protecting Resilience

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Fornemus is non-political, non-ideological NGO to have an open and critical conversations about the forest and its exponential value. Is protecting forest increasing or decreasing the value of the forest?

Conversation is stuck. Protecting forest is seen as sacrifice or it is seen as the ONLY way to go forward. Protection is also seen as stagnation and removing the idea of growth and mutually benefitting.

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Protecting Resilience

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Fornemus is non-political, non-ideological NGO to have an open and critical conversations about the forest and its exponential value. Is protecting forest increasing or decreasing the value of the forest?

Conversation is stuck. Protecting forest is seen as sacrifice or it is seen as the ONLY way to go forward. Protection is also seen as stagnation and removing the idea of growth and mutually benefitting.

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Protecting forest - Increase or decrease value?

We protect what is valuable to us, but more important question is the what is the act of protection. At Paimio event Päivi, Sipe, Elina and Mirkku talked actually about increasing the value by amplifying the biodiversity of the forest thus creating resilience to the ecosystem. Resilience is the best protection. (Thank you Sami Toivoniemi)

 

Päivi Luoma talked about the importance of transparent data, Sipe told stories about actions that everyone can do. Elina outlined solvable paradoxes and Mirkku told a story how changing perception created value for Artek products. 

 

The conversation outline three key fundamentals of the future of protecting forest:

  1. We want to go from stagnated protection towards empowering resilience 
  2. We want to amplify the mindset of caring and seeking a harmonious relationship with the forest ecosystem
  3. Resilience building is made of actions that we all can do. 

    Fornemus is looking for forest resilience building solutions. We want to remove mindset barriers and make finnish forest knowledge a torchbearer of the new forest relationships.


* ------Who are the guardians of the forest. In Lord of the Rings story Tolkien told about a interesting character Tom Bombadill - What a great example of forest guardians.

I had an errand there: gathering water-lilies,
green leaves and lilies white to please my pretty lady,
the last ere the year's end to keep them from the winter,
to flower by her pretty feet till the snows are melted.
Each year at summer's end I go to find them for her,
in a wide pool, deep and clear, far down the Withywindle;
there they open first in spring and there they linger latest.
By that pool long ago I found the River-daughter,
fair young Goldberry sitting in the rushes.
Sweet was her singing then, and her heart was beating!
And that proved well for you-- for now I shall no longer
go down deep again along the forest-water,
not while the year is old. Nor shall I be passing
Old Man Willow's house this side of spring-time,
not till the merry spring, when the River-daughter
dances down the withy-path to bathe in the water.

Tom Bombadill singing to Hobits Lord of the Rings


Mikko-Pekka Hanski wondering about the world.