📍Eastern Edge Studio (72 Harbour Drive), 5-7pm February 27, 2026
An introductory workshop by Sun Forest exploring biomaterials as a fluid, radical space of possibility. Learn the fundamentals of making bioplastics and biocomposites while engaging open-source technology through conversations on ancestral knowledge, diasporic transformation, and more-than-human relations.
Together, we’ll ask: How do we resist and repair systems of harm? How can bio-based design support racial and social equity, ecological regeneration, and collective healing?
Moving beyond commercial uses of compostable plastics and fibres, this workshop reimagines biomaterials as living networks that foster environmental stability and social change. Through a non-linear, research-driven approach, participants will expand their understanding of social and ecological healing while centering marginalized lived experiences.
Sun Forest is an interdisciplinary artist working across sculpture, performance, video, and installation. Her practice explores how racial violence, social inequity, and environmental crisis shape bodies and landscapes while imagining resilience and care. She is a SSHRC Doctoral Fellow at Simon Fraser University and has held residencies including the European Ceramic Work Centre, Arctic Circle, and BANFF.
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This project has been made possible in part by the Government of Canada. Ce projet a été rendu possible en partie grâce au gouvernement du Canada.
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