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The Forest School invites staff and students from across CSM to use the exhibition as their classroom, through which we will showcase the growing concern for our Forests within art and design education.

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This course proposes to engage with an online community of designers who will be studying from their local contexts to develop an action research project in regenerative design and actively contribute to holistically restore their local biosphere taking into account endemic cultures, indigenous voices and socio-cultural tenets as appropriate. Students will come from a range of craft and design backgrounds and will learn how to revisit their respective creative practice via a regenerative lens whether they live in a rural or urban context.

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The landscape of the UK is subject to competing demands, many of which are considered to be in direct conflict with one another, such as agriculture, industry, settlement and forestry. Our understanding of the interplay and tensions between these uses has been further complicated by the introduction of rewilding projects, carbon credits and the attribution of economic value to ecosystem services through ‘natural capital’ accounting. Unit 3 will challenge the legitimacy of a status quo underpinned by maximised yield and material extraction. We will investigate the different benefits and outcomes of alternative regenerative land management practices, from climate resilience to increased biodiversity and carbon sequestration. We will consider what material outputs can be derived from these alternative systems and how as architects we can integrate them into the construction sector. In doing so it is likely that we will need to both recover some of our forgotten technologies and develop entirely new forms of architectural language.

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Compostations is a student-led collaboration for adding layers, fermentation, dialogue, experimental modes of practice.

Compostation provocations are raw in nature, emerging from weekly layers of knowledge, experience, and dialogue.

Composting happens in the activity of doing and making together and coming to new positions and perspectives.

Compostation is a place to process, unearth our vocabulary, and develop new language that invites us to reconsider

what it means to become place. Can our assumptions decay, make space for new synergies and give soil for new understandings?

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What would the built environment look like if the health of our landscapes was prioritised over the demands of industry?

This exhibition showcases the work of Constructive Land a research project hosted by the Forest School of Central Saint Martins, examining the future of the British landscape in the context of the climate crisis.

The research is structured around three strands; Mosaic Landscapes examines different land management practises whilst Resilient Systems develops innovative timber building methods. Clearfell House is an experimental timber structure built with two disease-stricken British timber species, Ash and Larch.

The Forest School invites staff and students from across CSM to use the exhibition as their classroom, through which we will showcase the growing concern for our Forests within art and design education.

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The Forest School Assembly invites staff from across CSM to establish new dialogues over a collective, choreographed meal that draws together knowledge from artists, spatial practitioners, designers, curators and cooks to foster collective thinking about the future of the Forest School, its ethos and presence.

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This lecture explores sacred expressions in architecture and interpretations of nature in these creation processes. Jaime Peña is part of Arquitectura Mixta, who are a community formed by a multidisciplinary group that focuses on bio architecture and the use of natural materials for the creation of habitats in universal harmony.

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Compostations: Sacred Geometry Jaime Peña

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Interdisciplinary artist Laura Burns shares with us some of her work around reparative socio-ecological practices, and her projects. Listening to land and its relations guides her ongoing conversation with more-than-human and human ancestors. Centering embodied knowledge and ceremony, her work seeks to attend the impact of colonial capitalism's enclosures of land, bodies and practices.

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This lecture, by Ana Maria Gutiérrez is the co-founder and director of the Colombian-based practice Organizmo, explores methodologies of co- design and co-creation. It illustrates LA MINGA as an ancestral community dynamic and the manifestation of a vivid community architectures.

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Participatory Construction Processes: MArch Unit 02

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The Forest School Talks
Learning From the Sacred Forest

How can we learn from natural ecosystems, from their resilience, resourcefulness, and generosity in times of planetary emergency?

As the climate and biodiversity crises take central stage in both global and local debates, the understanding of how urban, rural, forestal places interact is increasingly important. Learning from the Sacred Forest seeks to investigate, assimilate and digest the knowledge embedded in the forest, in order to envision alternative ways to live and build.

Taking a journey into the Asian sacred forests, we will discuss with guests, social anthropologist Dr Debojyoti Das and architect Anagh Bali, about how we can bring the teachings of the sacred forest to re-imagine our built environment.

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The Forest School Talks

Resilient Forests

Talk Available online

Our forests are invaluable, providing societal benefits from timber and carbon sequestration to flood protection and recreation, and are crucial wildlife habitats. Yet they also face a plethora of pressures, including climate change, pests, disease, biodiversity collapse and changing societal expectations. In this talk, Dr Eleanor Tew shares Forestry England’s operational approach to natural capital and forest resilience.

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The Forest School Talks

Wilderness

08.06.22

Talk available online

In the Wilderness talk, Colombian based naturalist and environmental consultant Mateo Hernandez Schmidt,  expounds on the importance of wild landscapes. The talk reflects on the importance of the spontaneous, wild, unpremeditated processes for biodiversity conservation, from a non-anthropocentric perspective.

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The Forest School Talks
Forest Wilding

Talk available online

We know that trees are vital to a flourishing planet, therefore we need to radically change the way we manage forests. Not only must canopy cover be considered, but also the soil and microorganisms that lay within, the shrub, and all creatures that contribute to a thriving, healthy forest. In the Forest Wilding talk, we discussed with guests what it means to rewild our forests.

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WATCH TALK HERE

The Constructive Land talk asked us to consider why forestry and land management are relevant, and how we can adapt as designers to existing and future ecological challenges within our landscape.

We were joined by James Simpson, Director of Operations for Forestry and Land Management at Forestry England and Material Cultures, a not-for-profit organisation which brings together design, research, and action towards a post carbon-built environment. They work at the intersection of architectural design, engineering, systems thinking, digital technologies and material science.

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Flourish:Design Paradigms for Our Planetary Emergency by Sarah Ichioka and Michael Pawlyn

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"I could not have hoped to start 2022 with a more inspiring read..."
Kate Raworth, Economist, Change Agent, Author: Doughnut Economics

"I love this book - partly because of the voice that the authors have given it - more like a conversation than a lecture, in spite of its considerable authenticity. It feels perfectly timed too, following a COP that barely scratched the surface of what needs to be grasped in both hands. This tells it like it is, but without stomping the table in anger - true to the Donella Meadows way."
Mike Cook, Visiting Professor Imperial College London + 2020 Institute of Structural Engineers' Gold Medal winner

Read all the Reviews of - 8th January, 2022 and more.Flourish:
Bloomberg
The Structural Engineer - February 2022...
​ Reviews Page here

"If you're a designer, architect or anyone else who is wondering what you could - and should - do to arrest the climate emergency and all the other major threats we face, read this book - Flourish: Design Paradigms For Our Planetary Emergency".
Alice Rawsthorn, design critic, author + co-founder, t he Design Emergency project

"When it comes to sustainability and the built environment, we have reached that moment when it is time to quiet the noise, put our ears to the ground and listen deeply to the 'thump' of the Earth to know what we must do. Flourish gifts us a beautiful curation of ideas to help us hear that beat, + feel inspired to walk a different route towards creating human habitats that restore and replenish our living systems."
Sumi Dhanarajan, Associate Director APAC, Forum for the Future.

"One of the most enjoyable and informative reads on the topic. I highly recommend it to all those who are engaged with the agenda of the environment and who are in search of new paradigms to reverse the ongoing depletion of our living world."
Dr Hossein Rezai (Founding Director, Web Structures; Global Design Director, Ramboll

"A brilliant and timely summary of regenerative practice, aimed at everyone involved in shaping the built environment. Essential reading for designers, commissioners, funders and policy makers."
Steve Tompkins, Director, Haworth Tompkins; co-founder, Architects Declare

ber 2021 Imprint: Triarchy Press
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Sarah Ichioka is an urbanist, curator and writer. Connecting cities, culture and ecology, she's been recognized as a World Cities Summit Young Leader, and one of the Global Public Interest Design 100. She is founding director of Singapore-based strategic consultancy Desire Lines.

Michael Pawlyn is an architect, biomimicry expert, and a co-initiator of the global movement Architects Declare Climate and Biodiversity Emergency. His TED talk has been viewed over 2.1 million times. He is founding director of London-based Exploration Architecture.

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Flourish is written for built environment professionals, policymakers, and activists,

What will it take to restore balance to our world? How can we repair our devastated environments, and secure future generations' survival? And what's the key to unlock the mindset shift to enable truly regenerative transformation?

Flourish reaches beyond 'sustainability' to explore 'regenerative' practice, what it really means, and how we can get there together.

Looking deeply into the web of life that created and supports us, Flourish draws inspiration from diverse cultural traditions and perspectives. Michael Pawlyn and Sarah Ichioka propose a bold set of regenerative principles to transform how we design, make and manage our buildings, infrastructure and communities.

Whether you're a built environment professional or client, an activist or a policymaker, Flourish offers you an urgent invitation to inhabit a new array of possibilities. We can build a thriving future, together.

Covid-19 is a crucial point in the world's fight against climate change. As societies chart their recovery from the pandemic, they have a critical decision to make: do they succumb to the worst of "business as usual" or can they mark out and follow a bright new path together?

Flourish: Design Paradigms for Our Planetary Emergency, argues that humanity's best chance of a positive future lies not with looking beyond biology, as transhumanists advocate, or in retreating from civilization, as some deep ecologists propose. Rather, the answers are to be found in nature, where we will learn (or-re-learn) the perspectives and tools we need to support the flourishing of all life, for all time.

By looking deeply into the web of life that created and supported us, and drawing inspiration from diverse cultural traditions and perspectives, Ichioka and Pawlyn propose five paradigm shifts that would transform how we construct, design and manage the built environment, and our journey towards planetary health. These include:

moving beyond sustainable design towards regenerative design

're-patterning' anthropocentric modes of thinking in architecture

envisioning cities as sites for interbeing and action, rather than consumption.

Notably, these ideas are based on transcending and including, rather than opposing and dismissing previous paradigms. Each key shift is accompanied by illustrative graphics and examples of how
these essential shifts are more than possible, with existing or near-term methods and technologies.
Flourish offers a fresh and compelling argument from two leading urbanists and architects, and a critical yet imaginative approach for how all of us - not just humans - can thrive in a time of intense urban growth.

More than a manual on how to make the best out of our narrow window of opportunity, Flourish is an invitation to imagine a different array of possibilities and a call to action to move towards a truly regenerative and cooperative way of life.​

Read the Reviews of - 8th January, 2022 and more. Flourish:
Bloomberg
The Structural Engineer - February 2022...
​ Reviews Page here

Introduction -- "... A growing number of people are deeply concerned about our planetary emergency and wondering how we can rise to this seemingly insurmountable challenge. We wrote this book because we believe that the necessary changes lie primarily in cultural, rather than technological, transformation, and that this must occur at the level of mindsets - the shared ideas that determine ... how society works. ...working in the built environment, this (broad) field is our main reference point when defining these shifts and how we might bring them about. We see these shifts as essential to the evolution from 'sustainable' to 'regenerative' design and development."

Chapter 1: Possibilism: evidence, uncertainty and agency -- "If individuals minimizing their agency can have a contagious effect on others, then it is clear that the opposite can also be true. If we adopt a possibilist mindset that seeks out and assesses the totality of available evidence,
that uses creativity to solve problems, that strives to always maximize our agency, that relentlessly challenges norms and myths, could this follow an exponential trend leading to a rapid tipping point?... We are thrilled by the possibility that it could. What we know for certain is that when we refuse to accept the status quo as inevitable and strive to bring about change, we can have
a powerful effect in inspiring others to do the same."

Chapter 2: Co-evolution as nature: stewardship and living systems -- " We believe that the way humans see our relationship with nature will be critical to our species' future prospects, and that addressing the multiple environmental crises of the present moment will require us to completely rethink our position and role on Earth."

Chapter 3: A longer now: deep, cyclical time and holarchic progress -- "It matters which buildings we celebrate. As philosopher José Ortega y Gasset wrote, 'Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are'. Whether the focal point of a town is a religious building, a shopping centre or a secular gathering space for public events says very different things about our culture and values. It is therefore worthwhile asking 'What should be the cathedrals of the future?' Could these be buildings that aspire to the deepest reciprocal values, rooted in a deep sense of time and place, sociologically, geographically and ecologically? Could these be projects that in some way enhance
our sense of human potential and embody one-planet thriving in beautiful and poetic ways?"

Chapter 4: Symbiogenesis: mutualism, citizen-activism and public luxury -- " A reappraisal of outdated metaphors about survival through competition, and of humans' innate nature, has created an intellectual space for imagining a new way of living based on symbiogenesis. This conceives of design as a fundamentally inclusive, negotiated and co-creative process that can generate new structures and ways of living. To achieve this will require not just a change of perspective for design teams but also a rethinking of design training, styles of collaboration and forms of governance."

Chapter 5: Planetary health: qualitative development, living metrics and flows -- " Keeping the goal of Planetary Health in mind should make it easier to decide when development is strictly necessary (for instance, to bring poorer parts of the world above the social foundation) and how to distinguish between different types of development. Qualitative, regenerative development that enhances planetary health is possible and we must learn to do better than just mitigating the negative impacts of growth. In a planetary emergency, there needs to be a strong bias towards avoiding unnecessary growth. This will require far more refurbishment of buildings and far less newbuild, designing out waste in all its forms, and pursuing durability and cyclicity in our material use."

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"I could not have hoped to start 2022 with a more inspiring read..." Kate Raworth, Economist, Change Agent, Author: Doughnut Economics "I love this book - partly because of the voice that the authors have given it - more like a conversation than a lecture, in spite of its considerable authenticity.

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Listening to the Forest - Chapter 2: Music of the Forest

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Field Recording of the Amazon rainforest in the evening, Field Recording of the Musician Wren, Extract from Brazilian TV Documentary, Nilo Amaro e Seus Cantores de Ébano, Shabaka Hutchings and more.

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Buy Biomimicry in Architecture 2nd ed by Pawlyn , Michael from RIBA Online Bookshop. ISBN 9781859466285

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John Higgs, novelist, journalist, and cultural historian, chose The Patterning Instinct as his favorite book on the BBC Radio 4 talk show, A Good Read.

Here's what he had to say:

"It was just such an important, necessary, and wise book that I wanted to tell people about it... It knocks you out of all the ruts of your thinking.

"We suddenly get an answer to questions like why we're not doing anything about climate change, how our way of thinking prevents us. And what's inspiring and hopeful about the book is that it reiterates how quickly these things can change. In a generation or so, we can adopt completely different subconscious metaphors and act differently in the world. I want everybody to read it!"

"A tour de force on the biological and psychological background of the human predicament. If you are concerned about our future you should know about our past. This amazing, well-documented book should be read by every college student, and every congressman." - Paul R. Ehrlich, author of Human Natures.

"A brilliant deep dive into the history of human cultures that brings us to today's cultural dysfunctions that threaten the planet. Insight, illumination, and potential ways out of the seeming dead-end that we've walked ourselves into. I would recommend it! - Thom Hartmann, author of The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight.

​"This fascinating, page-turning exploration of the human journey from the stone age to the space shuttle gives us powerful new ways to see ourselves. Deeply researched and written with great clarity and style, this book is also full of hope about humanity's possibilities in the 21st century." - Rick Hanson, Ph.D., author of Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom.

​"In prose that is a joy to read, Lent takes us on a tour of human history, guided by systems theory and cognitive science, to argue for the prominence of culture and the habits of the mind in shaping our collective destiny. If you've been too busy for the last twenty years to pay attention to the big ideas about the nature of the human animal, the engines of history, our place in the biosphere, and the shape of things to come, Lent can bring you up to date painlessly." Professor, Georgetown University, and author of Something New Under the Sun.

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The Patterning Instinct: A History of Humanity's Search for Meaning, by Jeremy Lent

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John Higgs, novelist, journalist, and cultural historian, chose The Patterning Instinct as his favorite book on the BBC Radio 4 talk show, A Good Read. Here's what he had to say: "It was just such an important, necessary, and wise book that I wanted to tell people about it...

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Design paradigms for a regenerative future

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The Indigenous Knowledges Talk explores the forest as spaces of intimacy, emphasising how the wellbeing of forests are intimately linked to the wellbeing of the peoples who inhabit them. A series of projects from the Amazon and the Chocó tropical rainforest in Colombia, illustrate how.

Watch the talk online HERE
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Sammanfattning #02 - Indigenous Knowledges

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by Josefine Berglund, White Arkitekter Malmö

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Week long residency at Allenheads Contemporary Arts Center exploring Land Pedagogies, for six MA Art and Science students and six M-Arch Architecture students.

KE Impact Fund awarded to Heather Barnett and Andreas Lang

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Feral Atlas: The More-Than-Human Anthropocene ed. Anna L. Tsing

Feral Atlas invites you to explore the ecological worlds created when nonhuman entities become tangled up with human infrastructure projects. Seventy-nine field reports from scientists, humanists, and artists show you how to recognize “feral” ecologies, that is, ecologies that have been encouraged by human-built infrastructures, but which have developed and spread beyond human control. These infrastructural effects, Feral Atlas argues, are the Anthropocene.

https://feralatlas.org/

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Curated and Edited by Anna L. Tsing, Jennifer Deger, Alder Keleman Saxena and Feifei Zhou

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Feral Atlas invites you to explore the ecological worlds created when nonhuman entities become tangled up with human infrastructure projects. Seventy-nine field reports from scientists, humanists, and artists show you how to recognize “feral” ecologies, that is, ecologies that have been encouraged by human-built infrastructures, but which have developed and spread beyond human control.

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Towards Another Architecture, Ruth Morrow

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Carole Collet is Professor in Design for Sustainable Futures and Director of Maison/0, the Central Saint Martins – LVMH creative platform for regenerative luxury originally set up in 2017. She is also co-director of the Design & Living Systems Lab Research Group at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London.

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/ Carole Collet / Designing for the biocentury

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Can biodesign research facilitate the transition to a post-petroleum society?

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Sarah Ichioka is a strategist, urbanist, curator, writer, and the founding director of Desire Lines, a consultancy for environmental, cultural, and social-impact organizations and initiatives. In previous roles, she has explored the intersections of cities, society, and ecology within leading international institutions of culture, policy, and research. Sarah has been recognised as a World Cities Summit Young Leader, one of the Global Public Interest Design 100, a British Council / Clore Duffield Cultural Leadership International Fellow, and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Raised in California, and currently based in Singapore, she holds degrees from Yale University and the London School of Economics & Political Science.

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Sarah Mineko Ichioka is an urbanist, strategist, curator and writer. She leads Desire Lines , a strategic consultancy for environmental, cultural, and social-impact initiatives and organizations. Her latest book, Flourish: Design Paradigms for Our Planetary Emergency , co-authored with Michael Pawlyn, proposes a bold set of regenerative design principles for addressing compound environmental and social crises.

She has been recognized as a World Cities Summit Young Leader, one of the Global Public Interest Design 100, a British Council / Clore Duffield Cultural Leadership International Fellow, and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects.

In previous roles Sarah has explored the intersections of cities, society and ecology within leading international institutions of culture, policy and research. From 2008-2014 she served as Director of The Architecture Foundation (UK) and Co-Director of the London Festival of Architecture. She led the significant expansion of the Foundation's international profile, earning acclaim for a multi-faceted program of public space activations, exhibitions, international exchanges, design competitions, lectures, symposia, films, and youth education. Sarah's leadership was underpinned by the cultivation of strategic partnerships with stakeholders such as embassies, cultural institutes, galleries, awards, and business improvement districts; and her initiation of robust revisions of governance, management and communication systems.

Sarah's critical writing has been published by La Biennale di Venezia, Serpentine Gallery (Koenig), the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism (Actar), Barbican (Prestel), Mies van der Rohe Award (Actar), and the Urban Age (Phaidon). Her work has been featured in outlets including CNN.com, Channel News Asia, Monocle, BBC London, Folha de S.Paulo and Bloomberg CityLab.

Sarah has served as an adviser or judge for many diverse projects, including the XXII and XXIII editions of the Triennale di Milano, the Resilient by Design Bay Area Challenge, Water as Leverage for Resilient Cities Asia, the European Prize for Urban Public Space, and the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative.

Raised in California and currently based in Singapore, Sarah holds degrees from Yale University and the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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Sarah Mineko Ichioka is an urbanist, strategist, curator and writer. She leads Desire Lines , a strategic consultancy for environmental, cultural, and social-impact initiatives and organizations. Her latest book, Flourish: Design Paradigms for Our Planetary Emergency , co-authored with Michael Pawlyn, proposes a bold set of regenerative design principles for addressing compound environmental and social crises.

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Michael Pawlyn is the founder of the firm Exploration Architecture and a pioneering architect in regenerative design. His first book Biomimicry in Architecture was, for four years in a row, its publisher's best-selling title, with an updated and expanded second edition published in 2016. He delivers frequent keynotes on innovation and his TED talk has had over 2 million views. He has also been profiled in the Financial Times and Wired, and his projects have been featured in The Economist, The Guardian, and National Geographic. In 2019, Pawlyn co-initiated Architects Declare / Construction Declares (AD/CD) — a global call to action to declare a climate and biodiversity emergency, which has since launched in 27 countries and is supported by over 6,000 companies.

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Exploration is a design, innovation and strategy company focussed on biomimicry. In addition to our work as architects, we provide consultancy input to architects and clients that want to go beyond sustainable projects to regenerative design solutions.

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We were joined by guests Sarah Ichioka, strategist, urbanist, curator, writer, and founding Director of Desire Lines, and Michael Pawlyn, a pioneering architect in regenerative design and founder of Exploration Architecture. We will hear about their new co-authored book Flourish: Design Paradigms for Our Planetary Emergency, which proposes a bold set of regenerative design principles, drawn from natural and cultural wisdom.

Watch the talk online HERE
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Arborescent News - Indigenous Knowledges

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They Carry them with us: The Great Tree Migration

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They Carry them with us: The Great Tree Migration

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The Spread of Emerald Ash Borer

In 2002, foresters in Michigan finally figured out what was killing all of the ash trees. That summer the Michigan Department of Agriculture issued a quarantine in the five counties surrounding Detroit, the epicenter of the emerald ash borer invasion-where 99.7 percent of mature ash trees had died-and began urgent educational campaigns about the borer (commonly referred to as EAB). But by the end of 2003, EAB was in thirteen counties in Michigan and had been found in Ohio. In 2004, the United States Department of Agriculture began cutting down healthy ash to create buffer zones. Canada cut a swath of ash trees that was six miles wide, from Lake St. Clair down to Lake Erie. By 2012, EAB was in fifteen states and two Canadian provinces, and an estimated 50-100 million ash trees had been lost. The economic impact of tree removal and replacement across a twenty-five-state region was projected at $10.7 billion.

On its own, the beetle might only move a half mile a year, but people were cutting dead ash trees, not knowing what had killed them, and chopping them into firewood, which was sold and carried across county and state lines-neither the sellers nor the buyers ever aware that beetle larvae were nestled inside.

Despite years of education campaigns, expanding quarantine zones, and bans on moving firewood, the borer, as of this writing, has spread into thirty-five states and five Canadian provinces. APHIS-the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service-has since abandoned quarantines and firewood bans as effective strategies for control, though individual states like Maine still have quarantines and bans in place. APHIS is instead focusing its efforts on other methods of slowing EAB's spread, such as biological control: in this case, releasing parasitoid wasps that are native to EAB's habitat in Asia and a known predator of the beetle. So far, this strategy has had a limited but encouraging effect.

In 2017, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature added six species of North American ash to its Red List, with black ash, blue ash, green ash, and white ash listed as critically endangered.

All of them had been common species in 2002.

The present-day story of tree migration in Maine-indeed, anywhere-is not a simple one. While one can broadly point to climate change as the culprit, the closer one looks, the more complex the image appears. When I asked Patty Cormier, director of the Bureau of Forestry and Maine's state forester, if she could give me a big-picture overview of how forests in Maine are changing in response to a changing climate, she said: "Nope. It's very complex. There's so much that goes into it. You can't simply look at one factor with our forests and make predictions about the future."

The fact that Maine's boreal forest is creeping north into cooler climes does not directly and wholly correlate with rising temperatures-though the annual average temperature in Maine has increased by 3.2 degrees Fahrenheit since 1895, with most of the warming occurring in the winter months. That sugar maples and birch are being increasingly replaced by beech trees in what used to be widespread beech-maple-birch forest ecosystems, where the three species had coexisted in a balanced relationship, cannot be fully attributed to changes in seasonal patterns nor to the fact that summers have lengthened by about two weeks while winters have shortened by the same amount. And the ongoing decline of eastern hemlock, which has been plagued by the rapid expansion of hemlock woolly adelgid, can be accounted for only in part by the decreasing depth of annual snowfall.

The external factors that affect the health, makeup, and movement of forests are as complex as the forests themselves. The phenomenon of tree migration arises from interrelated and overlapping causes, such as changes in climate, past and present land use and management, the proliferation of native pests and plants, the introduction of non-native species, and the built landscape. And because researching tree migration often requires studies that last at least several decades, in most cases we do not yet have enough data to see the picture fully. Attempting to follow the trees-or trying to predict where they will go-currently means a lot of guesswork and few definitive answers.

But Maine is nonetheless a useful case study for a better understanding of tree migration within the United States. With 89 percent of its land forested, Maine has the highest percentage of forest of any state. Additionally, the forests of Maine exist in a transitional ecotone, with boreal forests (primarily spruce and fir) to the north and temperate hardwood forests (primarily maples, birches, and beeches) to the south: thus, many species already exist at or near the edge of their natural range, making it easier to perceive where those edges are expanding or contracting.

Other noteworthy factors for our purpose: 93 percent of Maine's forest is privately owned and managed; 97 percent of Maine's forests are classified as timberland. The forest products industry-which includes pulp and paper, hardwood and softwood boards, panels, dowels, wood composites, Christmas trees, firewood, and maple syrup-contributes upwards of $5 billion to Maine's economy every year, while forest-based recreation contributes nearly $3 billion. "The trees are all over the state, and it's our identity," says Patty Cormier. "So it's huge. I take that very seriously. I want to keep it that way."

At the time of European settlement in the 1600s, there were 18.2 million acres of forest in Maine, compared with today's 17.6 million. Though this might give the impression that comparably little forest has been lost in the last four hundred years, that impression is false. Most of the forests of southern Maine were razed to make way for agriculture. Following the industrialization of the Northeast in the mid-1800s and the relocation of much of the nation's agriculture to the Midwest, many of southern Maine's farms and remaining forests were felled under increasing pressure from development, which has only increased into today. Between 1980 and 2000, development altered 850,000 acres of the state's forests. Landscape disturbance is a particular threat to tree migration. One study attests that once 70 percent of an area has been disturbed, the ability of plants to migrate is effectively halted.

Following settlement, the northern part of the state was quickly identified as prime timber country. Bangor was known as the "Lumber Capital of the World" by the mid-1800s, and the subsequent rise of the pulp and paper industry shortly thereafter kept forests in the northern part of the state under a near-constant regime of cutting. The forests that have regrown on what was farmland in northern Maine are younger forests with reduced diversity. Though the forest products industry has been in decline in the state for the last decade, demand for forest products remains a major factor in the state's economy, only recently outpaced by the service industry.

The state's history of clear-cutting in the north and clearing for agriculture in the south has by and large determined what tree species make up Maine's forests today. Thus, in considering where forests will be in the future, one must take into account where they have been in the past, as well as the fact that the majority of those forests have already been drastically-and repeatedly-altered since European settlement. There are only about six thousand acres of old-growth forests remaining in the state. Everything else has been felled at least once.

"Northeastern forests continue to recover from a long period of intensive agricultural clearing and lumbering that peaked in the late nineteenth century," one study of New England forests notes. "Despite the pervasive influence of many novel agents of global change, recovery dynamics ... continue to be the dominant process driving forest change in the region." Even black ash, a comparably rare species in Maine-making up about 2 percent of forests-exists where it does in the state today largely because of agricultural use of the land. Many stands in central and southern Maine are part of early-successional forests that are less than a hundred years old, having regenerated on abandoned farmland.

In other words, humans have been altering the future paths of Maine's trees for centuries.

Climate models predict that Maine will be between three and fourteen degrees warmer in winter by the year 2100-a wide range that underscores the unpredictability of the climate crisis. Precipitation is expected to increase, primarily in the form of rain; the number of days with extreme high temperatures is expected to double; and average snowfall is expected to continue to decrease. The decline in winter snow will bring changes to the biological processes of soil, will lead to the increased proliferation of pests, and will affect wildlife foraging and nesting. Without the insulation of snow, cold snaps can freeze soil and fine roots.

Broadly speaking, Maine is expected to see a large decline in its boreal forests-which are dominated by red spruce, black spruce, white spruce, and balsam fir-by the end of the twenty-first century. These trees are moving north and upslope, and while they are likely to find some refuge in the higher elevations of New England's mountains, their populations are likely to greatly diminish. One study from the University of Vermont predicted that New England will lose between 71 and 100 percent of its boreal conifer forest by 2085. In the meantime, northern deciduous hardwood forests are also predicted to decline, while the oak-hickory forest type will shift northward by an estimated one hundred kilometers. Hardwood species with established southern ranges-red maple, northern red oak, and beech-are expected to move farther northward and to increase in abundance as Maine's climate transforms into something more akin to that of Pennsylvania.

These predictions raise what are for Jesse Wheeler-vegetation program manager at Acadia National Park-an uncomfortable but urgent set of questions about the role of human intervention in the movement of forests. "How much do we try to facilitate what's going to be coming in? What I mean by that is, if there are species that aren't growing in the park now-that aren't natural to this area in 2021-but do have suitable habitat and are growing in populations, let's say, 50-100 miles from here, what can we do to allow for those to come in and establish? ... It's unlikely with natural seed dispersal that they'll be able to get here, even within the next century, let alone decades, because of the built landscape primarily just prohibiting that. You've got concrete and pavement that's really preventing ... natural dispersal."

In other words, stepping back and allowing trees to arrive naturally on their own time is, in many places, not an option. And while comparably rapid changes in temperature and precipitation would already be enough to move forests, there are other factors that have the potential to change where trees will be able to thrive: particularly invasive plants and pests.

Dr. William Livingston, associate professor of forest resources at the University of Maine, has spent thirty-five years observing Maine's forests. In that time, the most significant changes he's seen have not been drastic shifts in ranges of native trees but the arrival of invasive plants. "That's happening to a much faster extent and impacting the natural communities to a great extent," he says. "If there're any vegetation changes I'm concerned about, it's with the invasive plant species coming and getting into our natural systems."

Even if species could find green corridors through the built environment, many non-native plants and insects are poised to move into transitioning forests faster than the trees. Jesse Wheeler and his colleagues, therefore, have to do their best to predict-decades ahead of concrete research-which trees will lose suitable habitat and which trees might be able to replace them, while factoring in ongoing management of the many invasives that have already arrived. "What do we select?" he asks. "And how do we select? And how do we grow and source?" Human management is a must, at least in parts of Acadia, if the forests are to remain forests.

Before the threat of the emerald ash borer, Maine's population of black ash trees was widely expected to sustain losses in habitat. With predicted changes in precipitation-including wetter wet periods and drier dry periods-there were likely to be changes in the hydrology of the wetland and riparian ecosystems where the trees grow. It was not fully known how the trees would respond, in part because such things are difficult to predict, and in part because the trees make up such a small percentage of Maine's forests-having little value in the state's mainstream economy-and thus has not been extensively studied. But even in his lifetime, Richard has seen black ash leave the Littleton area, a phenomenon he believes is not entirely to be blamed on logging.

Wabanaki people in Maine have been watching closely and with a clear sense of what is at stake as the emerald ash borer moves east. Black ash is not only an ecological keystone species but a cultural keystone species as well. The tree is part of Wabanaki cosmology and creation stories. Passing down the knowledge of basketry has long meant passing down stories, language, and tradition. Baskets have provided a critical source of economic, and therefore social and physical, well-being for tribal basketmakers since the arrival of European settlers and into today.

As the emerald ash borer-considered the most destructive forest pest in the country's history-has moved east across the United States, it has left graveyards of ash trees in its wake. Most predictions are dire: the borer is expected to eventually kill 98 to 99 percent of ash trees in North America.

Can we say, then, that black ash is migrating? Is it shifting its range, or is its range being erased? Can we tease out the patterns of global trade that brought the borer to American shores from the bigger pattern of a warming planet? From the demand for timber? From people fleeing the arrival of the climate crisis elsewhere-fire and drought and floods-and coming to Maine and clearing forests and developing land that will buy them and their families a more secure climate future?

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They Carry Us With Them: The Great Tree Migration - Emergence Magazine

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Around the world, scores of species of trees are moving north, or west, or upslope. What is at stake as the forests change around us? Experience four stories of tree migration.

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Pedro Aparicio Llorente, leader ofthe multi-faceted design practice APLO, spoke about his intervention Ants, mangrove, ocean, which reflects on a series of moments shared with a friend Smith Valencia; fisher, farmer, and chef from Coquí, Chocó (Colombia). They co-designed a house and restaurant, sunk a mangrove tree in the ocean, and cooked for several people.

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Organizmo co-founder Ana Maria Gutiérrez, shared her experience of working with the Piaroa Indigenous community. Together they worked towards the conception, design, and construction of the La Urbana community Hotel in the Mataven jungle – a remaining fragment of the transition forest between the Colombian Amazon and Orinoquia regions.

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Centro de capacitation en diseño de habitats sostenibles. Bioconsctrucición. Paisajismo. Training Center in Sustainable Habitats. Bioconstruction. Landscapint

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https://deveniruniversidad.org/en/home/

Colombian architect Juliana Ramirez, shared work from the Indigenous University, an inception of the Inga Indigenous community led by Hernando Chindoy that sits in the foothills of the Andean Amazon. She will share an educational project that aims to act as a shield to a fragmented Indigenous territory, threatened by environmental and cultural erosion.

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DEVENIR UNIVERSIDAD IS A BIOCULTURAL PROJECT ENGAGING IN THE PROCESS OF AN AMAZONIAN TERRITORY BECOMING UNIVERSITY. THE PLATFORM DOCUMENTS AND CONTRIBUTES TO THE ACTIVITIES OF AN INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY IN COLOMBIA'S ANDEAN AMAZON, COLLECTIVELY WEAVING A NEW UNIVERSITY. AS A GROWING BIOCULTURAL ORGANISM, THE PROJECT INVOLVES HUMAN AND NONHUMAN MINDS IN BRIDGING DIFFERENT KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS. AT THE HEART OF THE RESEARCH LIES THE LIVING COGNITIVE TERRITORY AND THE WAYS IN WHICH THIS KNOWLEDGE CAN BE PROTECTED AND TRANSMITTED. THE UNIVERSITY EXPANDS ACROSS THE TERRITORY IN A DECENTRALIZED CONFIGURATION OF LEARNING SITES AND PATHS. NEW PEDAGOGIES ARE DESIGNED TO GENERATE PLACE-BASED KNOWLEDGE AND DRIVE THE PARADIGM SHIFT FROM AN EXTRACTIVE TO A GENERATIVE AND IMAGINATIVE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE TERRITORY. IN INTERCULTURAL TEAMS, WE GENERATE ART & AUDIOVISUAL MEDIA, TERRITORY & ARCHITECTURE, AND STAGE PUBLIC EVENTS AND EXHIBITIONS TO SUPPORT THIS GOAL.

Hernando Chindoy Chindoy, leader of the Indigenous Inga People of Colombia

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Antonia Agreda

Martin Anzellini

Liliana Armero Guerrero

Brigitte Baptiste

Ursula Biemann

Leidy Marcela Bravo Osorio

Gonzalo Bresacillo Muchavisoy

Adelina Becerra Peña

Norma Constanza Castaño

Maria Rosario Chicunque

Hernando Chindoy Chindoy

Cristina Rodríguez Muñoz

Luis Alberto Chindoy

Richard Décaillet

Yann Décaumont

Santiago del Hierro

Ernesto Evanjuanoy

Agripina Garreta

Libia Stella Guamanga

Carlos Hernandez

Alvaro Hernandez Bello

José Herrera Valencia

Martin Hitziger

Mariana Hoyos

Waira Nina Jacanamijoy

Taita Arturo Jacanamijoy

Aida Lucía Jacanamijoy

Benjamin Jacanamijoy

Carmelina Jacanamijoy

Eudócia Jacanamijoy

Lucio Jacanamijoy

Mercedes Jacanamijoy

Taita Carlos Porfirio Jacanamejoy

Yeni Yolanda Jacanamejoy

Serafin Jajoy

Wilton Gilberto Jajoy

Juan Carlos Jamioy

Encarnación Janamejoy

Esperanza Janasasoy

Patricia Jojoa

Tamino Kuny

Anne Lacaton

Freyder Legarda Mojomboy

Flora Macas

Santiago Martinez Medina

Giovanna Micarelli

Taita Germán Mojomboy Jojoa

Irma Mojomboy Jojoa

Jhon Jairo Mojomboy Jojoa

Taita Oscar Mojomboy Jojoa

Taita Paulino Mojomboy Garreta

Rubiela Mojomboy Jojoa

Alvaro Mutumbajoy Jacanamijoy

Carlino Muchavisoy

Herbert Perico

Santiago Pradilla

Felipe Pupo

Taita Aníbal Quieta

Miguel Angel Quinchoan

Juliana Ramírez Rodriguez

David Rodríguez Mora

Natalia Ruiz Maria

Belén Sáez de Ibarra

Carlos Vargas Tamez

José Alberto Tisoy

Mayerly Trochez Pacheco

Philip Ursprung

Iván D. Vargas Roncancio

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DEVENIR UNIVERSIDAD IS A BIOCULTURAL PROJECT ENGAGING IN THE PROCESS OF AN AMAZONIAN TERRITORY BECOMING UNIVERSITY. THE PLATFORM DOCUMENTS AND CONTRIBUTES TO THE ACTIVITIES OF AN INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY IN COLOMBIA'S ANDEAN AMAZON, COLLECTIVELY WEAVING A NEW UNIVERSITY. AS A GROWING BIOCULTURAL ORGANISM, THE PROJECT INVOLVES HUMAN AND NONHUMAN MINDS IN BRIDGING DIFFERENT KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS. AT THE HEART OF THE RESEARCH LIES THE LIVING COGNITIVE TERRITORY AND THE WAYS IN WHICH THIS KNOWLEDGE CAN BE PROTECTED AND TRANSMITTED. THE UNIVERSITY EXPANDS ACROSS THE TERRITORY IN A DECENTRALIZED CONFIGURATION OF LEARNING SITES AND PATHS. NEW PEDAGOGIES ARE DESIGNED TO GENERATE PLACE-BASED KNOWLEDGE AND DRIVE THE PARADIGM SHIFT FROM AN EXTRACTIVE TO A GENERATIVE AND IMAGINATIVE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE TERRITORY. IN INTERCULTURAL TEAMS, WE GENERATE ART & AUDIOVISUAL MEDIA, TERRITORY & ARCHITECTURE, AND STAGE PUBLIC EVENTS AND EXHIBITIONS TO SUPPORT THIS GOAL.

Hernando Chindoy Chindoy, leader of the Indigenous Inga People of Colombia

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Antonia Agreda

Martin Anzellini

Liliana Armero Guerrero

Brigitte Baptiste

Ursula Biemann

Leidy Marcela Bravo Osorio

Gonzalo Bresacillo Muchavisoy

Adelina Becerra Peña

Norma Constanza Castaño

Maria Rosario Chicunque

Hernando Chindoy Chindoy

Cristina Rodríguez Muñoz

Luis Alberto Chindoy

Richard Décaillet

Yann Décaumont

Santiago del Hierro

Ernesto Evanjuanoy

Agripina Garreta

Libia Stella Guamanga

Carlos Hernandez

Alvaro Hernandez Bello

José Herrera Valencia

Martin Hitziger

Mariana Hoyos

Waira Nina Jacanamijoy

Taita Arturo Jacanamijoy

Aida Lucía Jacanamijoy

Benjamin Jacanamijoy

Carmelina Jacanamijoy

Eudócia Jacanamijoy

Lucio Jacanamijoy

Mercedes Jacanamijoy

Taita Carlos Porfirio Jacanamejoy

Yeni Yolanda Jacanamejoy

Serafin Jajoy

Wilton Gilberto Jajoy

Juan Carlos Jamioy

Encarnación Janamejoy

Esperanza Janasasoy

Patricia Jojoa

Tamino Kuny

Anne Lacaton

Freyder Legarda Mojomboy

Flora Macas

Santiago Martinez Medina

Giovanna Micarelli

Taita Germán Mojomboy Jojoa

Irma Mojomboy Jojoa

Jhon Jairo Mojomboy Jojoa

Taita Oscar Mojomboy Jojoa

Taita Paulino Mojomboy Garreta

Rubiela Mojomboy Jojoa

Alvaro Mutumbajoy Jacanamijoy

Carlino Muchavisoy

Herbert Perico

Santiago Pradilla

Felipe Pupo

Taita Aníbal Quieta

Miguel Angel Quinchoan

Juliana Ramírez Rodriguez

David Rodríguez Mora

Natalia Ruiz Maria

Belén Sáez de Ibarra

Carlos Vargas Tamez

José Alberto Tisoy

Mayerly Trochez Pacheco

Philip Ursprung

Iván D. Vargas Roncancio

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A series of summaries in Swedish of each Forest School Talk, written by landscape architect Josefine Berglund.

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From Markus Magnusson

The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben

Wohlleben makes the case that the forest is a social network, while also sharing his deep love of woods and forests, explaining the amazing processes of life, death and regeneration observed in the woodland.

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by Josefine Berglund, White Arkitekter Malmö

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The Pine Woods Notebook by Francis Ponge

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In the words of Aldo van Eyck back in 1962.: “tree is a leaf and a leaf is tree - house is city and city is house...”.

THE DIAGRAM OF "LEAF-TREE, HOUSE-CITY" IN ALDO VAN EYCK'S ARCHITECTURAL THOUGHT

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/313505136_THE_DIAGRAM_OF_LEAF-TREE_HOUSE-CITY_IN_ALDO_VAN_EYCK%27S_ARCHITECTURAL_THOUGHT

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In powerful images, alternating between documentary observation and staged sequences, and dense soundscapes, Luiz Bolognesi documents the Indigenous community of the Yanomami and depicts their threatened natural environment in the Amazon rain forest. - Berlinale

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The Last Forest: Directed by Luiz Bolognesi. With Davi Kopenawa, Daucirene Yanomami, Ehuana Yaira Yanomami, Genésio Yanomami. In powerful images, alternating between documentary observation and staged sequences, and dense soundscapes, Luiz Bolognesi documents the Indigenous community of the Yanomami and depicts their threatened natural environment in the Amazon rain forest.

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Bernardo Alvarez - Writer, Director, Editor
Gabriel Veras - Director of Photography
Camilo Posada - Music Composer
Ryan Glass - Color Correction
Will Fortune - Sound Design
Jim Gravina - Compositing

SPECIAL THANKS - AGRADECIMIENTOS

Iván Duque Márquez - President of Colombia
Carlos Eduardo Correa - Minister of the Environment
Francisco Cruz - Viceminister of the Environment
Orlando Molano - Director of National Parks

Additional footage provided by Grupo Exito

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Listen to this episode from The Architectural Review Podcast on Spotify. Completing the tree-filled trilogy, the AR turns to focus on timber, our fundamental link between trees and architecture. Timber, especially mass timber - is seen to be one of the most ecologically sustainable building materials and an obvious alternative in construction.

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Mariam Zulfiqar and Dr David Edwards

In this essay on Ruth Maclennan’s Treeline, Mariam Zulfiqar and Dr David Edwards consider the wider botanical, cultural and geopolitical resonances that are opened up by the work.

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In June 2021 Forestry England, Film and Video Umbrella and artist Ruth Maclennan put out an open call asking people to submit audio and video footage of forests across the world. The contributed footage would form a cumulative snapshot of a diverse range of forests from various parts of the planet and would be used to create a new artwork called Treeline. This new work would be launched to coincide with COP 26, the UN's summit on climate change being held in Glasgow in November 2021 where leaders from around the world gathered to discuss the local and international climate-related issues we all face.

Horizon 13th lap, 2020, film still

The idea of inviting international submissions was an extension of how the artist had created Horizon, 2020. This work, created during lockdown, is made from short video sequences of views of horizons from different points across the world submitted by the artist's friends and peers. The repeating reference point of a central horizon line, shared by each of the sequences, functions as a formal framing device by which geographically distant locations can be placed side by side, evoking the common perspective uniting these disparate views at a time when people's horizons were being shrunk by the restrictions imposed by the pandemic.

In a similar fashion, the international call-out for Treeline was an antidote to the parochial way in which we have historically viewed and authored nature. It came at a moment when the pandemic had generated a renewed recognition of our interdependence with the planet's ecosystems, and when lockdown restrictions had sharpened awareness of how much our physical and emotional wellbeing could be enhanced through access to green spaces in the form of gardens, parks and forests.

As people walked around the British landscape, and reconnected with so-called 'wild' nature, how many would be aware that the landscape they were experiencing has been continuously managed for centuries? And how many would be able to tell the genealogical history or migratory stories of the plants and trees that are now such a familiar feature of the contemporary British countryside?

Still from Treeline, 2021

Treeline starts off with audio recorded in Peru, submitted by young women from indigenous Ashaninka communities. The work then takes viewers through forests, rural locations, parks and urban settings in over 30 countries including Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Pakistan, India, Egypt, Turkey, Cameroon, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Russia, France, Spain, UK, and USA. In total over a hundred people, organisations and charities submitted more than 200 pieces of footage giving us a glimpse of trees, landscapes, ecologies and the people that engage with them across the world.

Still from Treeline, 2021

The film is segmented into what feels like chapters, and submissions are edited together via a poetic and intuitive artistic logic that invites us to look beyond known or conventional scientific classifications. With the diversity of the submitted footage, and in the absence of a didactic narrative, the viewer has to make sense of what they are looking at.

The film begins with darkness and a garish high metallic sound which reveals itself as the sounds of tropical forest insects. The first 'chapter' comprises a substantial sequence of short sections of film of forests and trees in the landscape, mostly panning the same direction, from left to right, providing a sense of continuity between them yet taking the viewer between multiple locations across the world.

Still from Treeline, 2021

Later on, another chapter focuses on people and communities working with forests - planting trees, felling them and transporting logs. Shorter sections highlight risks to the forest (such as fire and storms), aerial flights over the canopy, and close-ups of varieties of bark on tree trunks. The film finishes with one such close-up of an extraordinary looking insect, a member of the South Asian Phylliidae, also known as leaf insects or 'walking leaves'.

Still from Treeline, 2021

The soundscape is equally diverse, with sounds from insects, birds, mammals and humans being featured alongside the noise of trucks, chainsaws and other heavy machinery. The sense of continuity across the separate fragments of film is enhanced by allowing the soundtrack for a given section run on to the next section and beyond.

Still from Treeline, 2021

When I (Mariam) started at the Contemporary Arts Programme at Forestry England my knowledge of the English landscape was fairly basic, although I had some inkling that it wasn't necessarily as quintessentially English as the name suggests. For example, I have always had a curiosity about UN-protected RAMSAR wetland sites, which provide habitats for migrating birds. The UK has hundreds of these sites as the British Isles are situated along one of eight international flightpaths for migrating birds. Known as 'flyways', these routes connect distant parts of the world, with the East Atlantic Flyway connecting parts of Africa to Europe and North America. A flick through the publication 'Songs of Place and Time' further underlines how birds, bird song and wetlands complicate the way we politicise our surroundings via possessive and reductive titles such as 'the English landscape'.

In Britain, as in many other parts of the world, we really don't have to go that far to see an international influence within the local landscape. The trees that grow across these isles are a mixture of what's called 'native' species such as rowan, pine and oak and international 'non-native' or 'exotic' species that have been introduced over the centuries.

Sycamore was introduced to Britain around the 15th or 16th Century. The cedar of Lebanon was first introduced around the 1600s and was a feature of English garden design popularised in the 1700s by landscape architects such as William Kent. European larch from the mountains of central Europe was introduced around 400 years ago for timber production. Eucalyptus was first introduced to Britain following Captain James Cook's voyage to Australia in the 1700s, and the 1800s saw the introduction of the commercial timber species Douglas fir and Sitka spruce by plant hunter David Douglas.

Similarly, evidence of species introduction can be found in countries across the world. The flamboyant for example, a tree with orange flowers visible across Barbados, was originally from Madagascar off the coast of East Africa, and the breadfruit tree, whose saplings were thrown overboard during the mutiny on the 'Bounty', originates from countries such as New Guinea and the Philippines. DNA research shows that it is linked to the Breadnut tree and moved around Polynesia some 3000 years ago. Later it would be moved again by the likes of Joseph Banks who first saw the tree in Tahiti and Captain Bligh who attempted to move it to the Caribbean as a source of food for the rapidly expanding and inhumane plantation economy fuelled by slavery. Research being conducted on tree DNA shows us that all citrus trees originate from the foothills of the Himalayas.

Over time, and in most of the countries where species introductions have taken place, some of these species have become familiar parts of our urban and rural environments. They have also evolved, producing descendants that hold ancestral DNA, while adapting and thriving in the environmental conditions in which they find themselves. They evidence an arrival, a translocation, an introduction, and a subsequent evolution.

It is not just human intervention that has moved tree species across the world. Long before human colonisation and globalisation intensified the movement of plants, animals and humans from one part of the world to another, the spread of trees and plants had been occurring through historical changes in climate, shifting landmass, and aided by birds and winds. Genetic markers demonstrate that oak colonised Britain from refugia located in southern Spain as the ice retreated and temperatures rose following the last glaciation. In the case of the Scots Pine, Scotland's national tree, ironically its native distribution in Scotland actually represents an isolated fragment on the western-most periphery of its main distribution across the rest of Europe and Asia.

Colleagues at Forestry England are involved in a number of activities, from timber production to conservation, rewilding and the reintroduction of species such as pine martens, white tailed eagles and beavers. Historically the Forestry Commission was formed after the depletion of wood during the First World War. Its remit in the past was to replenish the stock and continue to meet demand for timber. At first, this led to the creation of large monoculture plantations, although from the 1980s these became increasingly diverse in their species and structural composition.. Even so, as a country, we are now bottom of the G7 and rank twelfth from the bottom in the world when it comes to biodiversity intactness. The overall impact of plantation forestry on biodiversity is not straightforward, however; for example where heavily grazed open land is replaced by habitats for red squirrels, goshawks and crossbills. Perhaps more significantly, it's the confluence of 400 years of industrialisation, urbanisation, intensive land use and the pollution that these have caused, including light pollution, that has disrupted the conditions needed for much of our biodiversity to thrive.

Now there is a new line of thinking, one that recognises that being the largest manager of land in the country comes with the opportunity and responsibility to affect positive change at scale. With ambitious new targets for woodland creation set by governments across Britain, the future of our biodiversity is now in the spotlight. But with a rapidly changing climate even this approach is not without its friction. Will our native tree species adapt fast enough to cope with predicted rates of change? Or do we need to intervene, and use planting stock from more southern latitudes where current climates match those predicted for Britain in the near future? Our colleagues in Forest Research are working to generate evidence of the speed of genetic adaption and provide clear guidance for policymakers and practitioners as part of the newLEAF project led by UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (UKCEH) and funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). And, as DNA research shows us, the distinction between 'native' and 'exotic' isn't quite as simple as these loaded terms suggest.

The issue of genetics is a complicated one. The way that genetic variation is measured can lead to very different conclusions about 'belonging' depending on the precise markers selected for analysis. One only has to look at the political history of human interaction across the world to know how scientific evidence on the variability and distribution of DNA has been interpreted and leveraged to fit specific political agendas around purity. This logic has radiated out and influenced discourse and thought on plant species and populations too. Purity as a filter or a frame is reductive and oversimplifies complexity, with potentially negative impacts on public understanding and management actions on the ground.

The term 'treeline' typically indicates the altitude above which trees cannot survive due to wind and cold. The artist has extended the meaning of this word to encompass the changes in land-use as you traverse the landscape that prevent the forest from expanding any further. Can Treeline become a broader metaphor that encompasses not only the environmental and elemental boundaries faced by trees, but also the limits we face when trying to better understand our surrounding environments?

With DNA evidence presenting a complicated family tree of trees, what are the other edges and lines we need to recognise and transcend in order to reach new understandings about trees, ecology and nature? Is it time to start with language and reconsider how we interpret loaded terms such as native and exotic, and their associations with belonging, when speaking about plants and trees? As debates about these issues continue in scientific and conservation circles, is it possible that the future lies somewhere else, and is not simply resolved by a win for one of these two opposing arguments? Perhaps the answer lies in understanding the DNA which tells of populations of trees that have moved, migrated, settled and evolved over time, but also in artworks such as Treeline, which invite us to imagine a space that exists beyond native and non-native classifications.

Treeline opens up a space to discuss how we group and categorise nature, and question the filters through which we make decisions. The film's many viewpoints come from participants across the world, and while the editing process is filtered through the perspective and logic of the artist, it sidesteps any one single narrative by presenting a panoramic, albeit patchwork picture of trees, forests and the people and communities living and working in these spaces today. In its open, inclusive, user-contributed methodology, it is very much a film of our time. It has leveraged the international reach of social media to radiate an invitation. People with access to digital technology and green spaces responded. And precisely because of the plethora of information and multiple perspectives, the question about how best to process and make sense of the information becomes all the more urgent.

In preparing this text, Treeline offered a point of convergence for the Art Programme at Forestry England and the scientific work of its partner agency Forest Research. While these departments operate in parallel, the artwork created the conditions for our lines of enquiry to intersect, opening up a space for cross-disciplinary dialogue. During the course of writing this text we have allowed our own horizons to be broadened by the perspective of another discipline.

Ruth Maclennan's Treeline has ended up being much more than a film. In its methodology, it is a powerful metaphor suggesting that a fixed narrative isn't what's needed for the future. It is a springboard from which we can challenge and question the language, narratives and conceptual frameworks we collectively use as we head into an increasingly uncertain environmental future.

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Mariam Zulfiqar is the Curator of Forestry England's Contemporary Arts Programme.

Dr David Edwards is the Research Impact coordinator at Forest Research, the research agency of the Forestry Commission.

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In June 2021 Forestry England, Film and Video Umbrella and artist Ruth Maclennan put out an open call asking people to submit audio and video footage of forests across the world. The contributed footage would form a cumulative snapshot of a diverse range of forests from various parts of the planet and would be used to create a new artwork called Treeline.

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Listening to the Forest - Chapter 1: Learning from the Forest

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Tracklist
- Field Recording of the Amazon rainforest in the evening – Tom Humphreys
- Musique Baka – Baka People, Central African Rainforest
- Extract from ‘How Trees Talk to Each Other’ talk by Suzanne Simard
- Field Recording of Palestinian Sunbird foraging in the Judean Desert – Clive Bramham
- Fadi Kattan – On Za’atar
- Sabreen - On Man
- Field Recording of Forest Sounds in Ethiopia – George Vlad
- Kusdi Erguner – Ulvi
- Hermeto Pascoal – Dança do Pajé
- Nathalia Favaro – Learning from the Amazon
- Rahul Srivastava – The story of Mahua
- Chihei Hatakeyama - Breaking Dawn
- Field recording from the Agumbe Forest, Karnataka, India – Shruti / Wild Rumpus
- Song about the Mahua Tree – Bastar's Gond Adivasi tribe, - from the People’s Archive of Rural India
- Grupo Bahía – El Currulao me Llama

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Public Ecologies: Imaginaries of Urban Nature-Culture

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"Matters of Care" is a book about re-imagining posthumanist research and ecological ethics in a world under crisis. To explore these questions, Maria Puig de la Bellacasa frames the idea of care as a situated and committed form of speculation that simultaneously works to sustain the world we live in and opens it up to new constituencies and political stakes.

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Matters of Care is a book about re-imagining posthumanist research and ecological ethics in a world under crisis. To explore these questions, Maria Puig de la Bellacasa frames the idea of care as a situated and committed form of speculation that simultaneously works to sustain the world we live in and opens it up to new constituencies and political stakes. The book opens by offering Joan Tronto's (1993) definition of care as a conceptual anchor. For Tronto, care includes " everything that we do to maintain, continue and repair 'our world' so that we can live in it as well as possible. That world includes our bodies, our selves, and our environment, all of which we seek to interweave in a complex, life-sustaining web " (quoted on page 3, emphasis added by de la Bellacasa). From here, de la Bellacasa presents a three-dimensional vision of care as entailing "labor/work, affect/affections, ethics/politics" (page 5). Understood as a vital part of sustaining worlds, care is continually appropriated by and entangled in powerful configurations, including those with ultimately destructive effects, from marketing discourses that call for commodity-driven self care, to justifications for armed international interventions, to the language of corporate greenwashing which substitutes 'care' for accountability. For de la Bellacasa, however, thinking with care offers a way to think both through and beyond these entanglements.

The first chapter builds on Bruno Latour's (2004; 2005; 2014) famous distinction between ostensibly settled "matters of fact" and actively contested and constructed "matters of concern." By reimagining the former as the latter, Latour suggests, we reveal the configurations of interest and agency that connect human and non-human actors and which give particular social realities their weight. In turn, we are able to constructively reimagine these realities. De la Bellacasa traces the radical democratic ambitions of this vision, its insistence on recognizing human and non-human others collectively both as agents and stakeholders in particular matters of concern. She points out, however, that this vision also has its limits: actors may be implicated in certain matters of concern and yet remain unable to make their concerns easily knowable or traceable. To make these silent voices heard, she advocates "thinking with care" as "an active process of intervening in the count of whom and what is ratified as concerned" (page 52). Here, "care" entails a committed, speculative sensitivity to discovering traces of those actors less able to make their stakes in an issue immediately apparent or to assembling "neglected things" that bring with them a range of other relations-of suffering, of exclusion-that are often invisibly but inescapably implicated in many matters of concern.

The second and third chapters of the book offer particular tools for tracing matters of care. Chapter Two draws on the work of Donna Haraway to argue that posthumanist scholars can think with care in three modes: thinking-with, dissenting-within, and speaking-for. In Haraway's work, conflicting ideas are not treated as diametrically opposed but are held in tension and used to think through one another in uneasy but committed dialogues. This commitment to "staying with the trouble" informs de la Bellacasa's call to "think-with" and "dissent-within." These notions urge scholars to treat scholarship as an ongoing, open, and collective conversation that pursues transformation through engagement, appropriation, redirection, and reworking, rather than through critical disavowal or utopian flights. Meanwhile, de la Bellacasa's notion of "speaking-for" attempts to provide a more honest framing of the stakes involved when scholars address issues from the perspective of the marginalized. She argues that while adopting such standpoints can be productive, the shift to an academic register always entails a displacement of voice and experience. Understanding this as a claim to "think for" acknowledges the appropriation at work and prompts scholars to question when such moves are worthwhile.

Chapter Three explores touch as a technology for producing caring knowledge. Building on feminist critiques of the objectifying potential of vision, de la Bellacasa explores how, in contrast, touch turns knowing into a mutual project. Touch confounds subject-object distinctions by flowing in both directions-what we touch touches us as well. Its ability to know is channeled through relational affordances, for what is learned through touch depends on the response of the other being touched. For de la Bellacasa, in other words, touch can be understood as a grounded, speculative practice, where knowledge unfolds between subjects whose ability to know is mediated by how they reach out, and by the receptivity of the other. It is also a modality that inflects other ways of knowing, including, crucially, vision. Here "touching vision" entails a form of seeing that is sensitive to its own vulnerable, subjective and relational grounding, revealing "a world constantly done and undone through encounters that accentuate both the attraction of closeness as well as awareness of alterity" (page 115).

Opening the second section on practices of care, Chapter Four develops a notion of "alterbiopolitics." De la Bellacasa picks up on the pervasive role of biopolitics in shaping planetary life to argue for an ethical displacement of individual human subjects. When the possibilities for personal self-sustenance and those that shape collective outcomes across the planet can no longer be disentangled, she argues, the lines between private ethics and public politics, or between individual and collective, no longer make sense as a basis for ethical action. Instead, drawing on her own experiences in permaculture practices, she advances a vision of ethics where everyday experiences of interdependency inform a collectivist mode of ethics that does not require explicit intentionality, nor fixed principles, but which emerges in a speculative manner out of the mutuality of everyday relationships. The final chapter extends the book's thinking with permaculture to encompass other practices of care for the soil. The slow, unfolding temporalities of care for the soil-and care in general-are contrasted with the rapid, innovation-driven imaginaries of popular technological visions of the future, and of market-dominated forms of care. Based on this contrast, de la Bellacasa argues that if dominant visions of futurity invoke care, they do so in an objectifying mode antithetical to the situated, careful unfolding of care practices themselves. A speculative commitment to the uncertain, unfolding temporalities of care, she argues, offers a way to prevent the reduction of soil (and other natural entities) to mere resources, and to recognize their caring capacities in kind. Finally, the book ends with a short coda that asks if thinking about non-human others as caring means risking anthropomorphizing them. Care, suggests de la Bellacasa, may offer a particularly human way of imagining our relations to others, but it nonetheless attunes us to the care-like work done by non-human others in sustaining our common world while prompting us to pay closer attention to the particulars of their existence. As a speculative move, it pays to imagine non-human others as caring.

This is a complex book, and other readers are bound to draw other insights from the chapters than those highlighted here. Stylistically, the book commits to writing with care, and embraces the ideas of thinking-with, dissenting-within, and speaking-for. For instance, instead of arguing with or claiming to move beyond particular ideas, de la Bellacasa positions her own work as working in resonance with, or as a "displacement" of, those of others, drawing together disparate sources and ideas in an exploratory register in order to draw out new analytical and ethical possibilities. This speculative register, which endures across the book's two halves, is likely to be a source of both inspiration and frustration for readers. On a quest to open up the constituencies of the world and to rethink "whom and what is ratified as concerned" (page 52), and to envision a practical politics that would give ethical voice and political sway to the neglected, the book continually reaches beyond the taken-for-granted epistemological and political frameworks that reproduce such neglect. Yet, in doing so, the actual materiality of the world-actually-existing patterns of inclusion and exclusion, of ecological interdependence and political struggle-shift out of focus. Without seeing how such patterns are addressed, it becomes hard to imagine how the book's politics of knowledge and action can be taken up and situated.

For instance, empirical studies of care stress the deeply situated, embodied, and temporally-unfolding nature of relations of care (e.g. Joks and Law, 2017; Mol, 2008; Mol et al, 2010; Popke, 2006). These characteristics can give caring relations an intimate but often inward-looking spatiality. De la Bellacasa frequently acknowledges the situated nature of care in passing, but never fully unpacks its implications. While her reading of care as a speculative technique clearly extends the relations that caring practices might embrace, the question of just how encompassing care can be remains unaddressed. This, despite the fact that, modifying Tronto, de la Bellacasa valorizes care as "everything that is done... to maintain, continue and repair 'the world' so that all (rather than 'we') can live in it as well as possible" (page 161, emphasis in the original). The tension between particularism and universalism-between the situated, speculative commitment to keeping the social open to new forms of contestation and gathering and the commitment to imagining a politics for the betterment of all-goes unaddressed. At the heart of this tension lie neglected questions around the scope of caring relations, the just distribution of caring obligations, and the potential for care to generate incommensurable commitments.

Similarly, while Matters of Care is presented partly as a conversation between feminist thinking on care and posthumanism, key voices are absent. It cites, but does not deeply engage work in feminist theory by those who have worked prominently on care itself, such as Virginia Held, Selma Sevenhujisen, Eva Kittay, and Nancy Fraser, and almost exclusively dialogues with committed posthumanists, including Haraway, Susan Leigh Star, and Isabelle Stengers. Even Tronto is largely only invoked for her 'generic' definition of care, rather than for her deft considerations of care as a practical ethic that reworks the meaning of the political, despite the clear resonance between this reworking and de la Bellacasa's own project. Absent too are many of the questions raised by these other thinkers about the connections between care, dependency, and inequality; the place of care within or beyond notions of equality or liberal orders; and the relationships between different dimensions of care. These elisions make it difficult to connect de la Bellacasa's speculative exercise, not only to existing political orders, but also to debates beyond posthumanism.

Its speculative register allows Matters of Care to take ambitious strides. It offers a serious and thoughtful contribution to debates around the place of politics within posthumanism, connecting a radical openness to human and non-human others with an enduring concern for the excluded and marginal. In doing so it reimagines how we might know the world and places care at the heart of a hybrid practice of knowing, relating to, and sustaining worlds. It also serves as an exemplar of a different sort of academic writing, forgoing oppositional argument in favor of thinking through continuous entanglement with the work of others. The same speculative register that enables the book's achievements, however, also suspends full engagement with the ecological and political challenges of the day, or with key dilemmas within feminist thought. Ironically, in its effort to extend certain entanglements, the book seems to cut others short. Dense and multivalent, readers are invited to follow de la Bellacasa's speculation, wherever it might take them.

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Works Cited

Bellacasa, María Puig de la. Matters of Care: Speculative Ethics in More Than Human Worlds. University of Minnesota Press, 2017.

Joks, Solveig, and John Law. "Sámi Salmon, State Salmon: TEK, Technoscience and Care." The Sociological Review 65, no. 2_suppl (July 1, 2017): 150-71.

Latour, Bruno. Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory. OUP Oxford, 2005.

---. "What Is the Style of Matters of Concern?" In The Lure of Whitehead, edited by Nicholas Gaskill and A. J. Nocek, 92-126. University of Minnesota Press, 2014.

---. "Why Has Critique Run out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern." Critical Inquiry 30, no. 2 (2004): 24.

Mol, Annemarie. The Logic of Care: Health and the Problem of Patient Choice. Routledge, 2008.

Popke, Jeff. "Geography and Ethics: Everyday Mediations Through Care and Consumption." Progress in Human Geography 30, no. 4 (August 1, 2006): 504-12.

Tronto, Joan C. Moral Boundaries: A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care. Psychology Press, 1993.

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Re- Animating Soil by Maria Puig de la Bellacsa

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Introduction to some of the ideas Maria Puig de la Bellacsa explores in her book Matters of Care.

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Nature/Culture: Two presentations by Curator, Gilly Karjevsky and Architect, Hester Buck, challenge the divide between nature and culture, the human and non-human and explore new bio-cultural approaches for design, learning, and living.

To view the video recording of the talk click HERE
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andreas lang, architects, architecture, art, community, design, engaged practise, public works, publicworks, publicworksgroup, torange khonsari

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Jake Graduated from the Architecture Masters Programme at Central Saint Martins, where he used his thesis work to investigate and provoke new strategies for maintenance and “care”, focusing on places sheltering humans, wildlife, and ecosystems. His practice draws on modes of caring with the world through the intersection of art, architecture, and performance; using the practice of storytelling to inspire empathetic, sympathetic, and adventurous attitudes towards the collective creation of worlds for living.

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Arborescent News is a broadcasting collective developed during the (Re)Indigenous Revolution to cultivate and invent arts of living with and for ruined worlds. Covering intergalactic headlines from the deep past, present and future to inspire voice, ambition, and action across the galaxy. Presented by “Ki”, whom was conceived with tree like biogenetics their concerns are more than human. As their genus dictates, they are those who remember the unheard voices of our natural world.

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Paloma Gormley MA (Cantab) is a founding Director of Material Cultures. She is an internationally acclaimed designer responsible for a series celebrated architectural and urban projects. Her work is rooted in a creative pragmatism whilst drawing on new technologies and the integration of new materials. Paloma co-runs 'Construction in Detail' on the MArch course in the Spatial Studies department at Central St Martins, University of the Arts London and has previously taught at the Bartlett, University College London and the London Metropolitan University. She founded Practice Architecture with Lettice Drake in 2009, through which she has completed a number of critically acclaimed arts and cultural projects, including the theatre at the Yard, a performance space for Bold Tendencies and The Peckham Hotel.

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Summer Islam AADipl (hons) ARB is a founding Director of Material Cultures. Summer co-runs 'Construction in Detail' on the MArch course in the Spatial Studies department at Central St Martins, University of the Arts London. Her work is focussed on the holistic integration of systems thinking, construction technologies and design. She has extensive experience of leading prominent cultural and community projects from inception to completion. Summer has also taught at the Bartlett, University College London, the London Metropolitan University, the Architectural Association and the University of Cambridge. She was previously an associate at award-winning design practice 6a architects in London. Summer co-founded design practice Studio Abroad with George Massoud in 2014.

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Listening to the Forest is produced by Cameron Bray. He works on projects engaging with people, planet and places across roles at JA Projects, R-Urban Poplar and Central Saint Martins. He hosts a monthly radio show on Radio alHara.

You can email Cameron at: c.bray@arts.ac.uk

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A Question to all at White Architekter from Cameron

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A Question to all at White Architekter from Cameron

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What would a tree tell us about how to make a building?

Email your response to: c.bray@arts.ac.uk

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Listening to the Forest is a series of botanical transmissions weaving together a soundscape of field recordings, music, thoughts and conversations. Live on air at the end of each Forest School lunchtime talk, each episode will address a different theme linked to the week’s conversation.

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Forest School is an exploration using the forest as a prism through which to understand the causes and implications of the climate and ecology emergencies.

As forests burn across the world, there is growing hope that forests might hold answers to systems that are fairer for everyone and respect planetary boundaries. Solutions range from business-as-usual offsets using forests as carbon sinks to more empathic approaches that see forests as intelligent codependent ecosystems which embody deep time thinking. There are many myths that anchor forests deep in our cultural psyches yet guardian communities with practices of gratitude and connection with nature have been marginalised.

We need to drastically rethink how we live on, and with, this planet with finite ecological limits; can forests inform new ways for collective living?

Forest School is a journey into the forest to discover, learn and re-form not only the practice of architecture but the ways in which we live together within wider planetary systems.

Forest School Lunch Time Talks, is a programme devised by Central Saint Martins in Collaboration with White Arkitekter Malmö and Forestry England.

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How can the competing demands on our landscape be reconciled to facilitate the development of biobased materials in a post-carbon future?

Central Saint Martins of the University of the Arts London, in partnership with Forestry England, and Material Cultures is pleased to present Constructive Land, a research proposal examining the future of the British landscape in the context of the climate crisis. Our fertile landscape is constrained by pressures from farming, woodland and housing, all of which need reimagining as we move into a post-carbon future. The research looks at the potential of agroforestry to develop arable farming alongside productive woodland, and explores what materials and building systems can be drawn from a new model of regenerative land management.

This innovative research will have impact at multiple scales: at the scale of the material, the building and of the landscape, working together as a holistic system. Our research methods are practical: encompassing material testing, prototyping, and building, and academic, including interviews and an in-depth literature review.

Led by Summer Islam and Paloma Gormley, the production and application of new biobased materials, drawn from conventionally ‘unproductive’ woodland material, will be investigated and tested over the course of the project. An experimental timber structure, which will facilitate teaching and community engagement with our woodlands will be designed and built by a group of 30 MArch Architecture students over the summer of 2022.

The research will question the different value systems imposed onto our land, and its outcomes will inform our teaching: building on our ecological curriculum for future creative change makers, and proposing new models of practice centering sustainability alongside materials and people.

For more information see HERE

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I personally can't deny the allure of TV; gripping drama that has me gasping at any small plot twist. Strictly Come Dancing, the nations favourite (well certainly mine) Saturday night TV and the News, which at times is difficult to watch, but at our viewing (dis)pleasure we experience in some form the 'truthful' reality of another. The News as an example, narrates the economic and technical structures of globalisation we are living through facing simultaneously multiple and overlapping crisis'...They're optically delivered on high definition screens in the palms of our hands. (Michael Stone-Richards 2017, e-flux)

As Neil Postman writes in his book Amusing Ourselves to Death, television has created new forms of truth telling... "we are now a culture whose information, ideas and epistemology are given form by mostly by television, not by the printed word(Neil Postman, 2017 p28)". This is by no means a definitive statement, there are still many readers and many published books, I mean we all love a good sniff of new book, don't we?

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I like Neil Postman am arguing that a television-based epistemology pollutes public communication and its surrounding landscape, not that it pollutes everything. I am constantly reminded of television's value as a source of comfort and pleasure. Especially during COVID (Neil Postman, 2017 p28). But it is because of how entrenched TV and screens are within our society I have chosen this medium for "Ki" to express their concerns.

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View into Macintosh Court, the residents watching the broadcast from the communal area

Ki wanted to make visible their concerns. They were concerns of our human nature relationship, concerns over the threat of managed decline. Especially for Macintosh Court, residents who were as a majority unable to support themselves completely. They wanted to spread arboreal practices, that focused on care in its most etymological sense. Ki also wanted to challenge managed decline, this would involve further conversation with residents and reaching out to the council. The technology they had travelled in allowed them to broadcast their message across South London, making visible the concerns, bringing into attention and focus so that we would be encouraged to care!

HOME | COVID | ACTS OF CARE | ARBOREAL LIFE | GALACTIC HEADLINES | UK | STREATHAM

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Moments of collective care, using the nations best civic cleaning products. CIVIC BANG!

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[Rebecca Kafball, Emily Cowles, Jake Stephenson]

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Interviewed by Ki, Samantha talks about their time as a resident of the estate, and the estates architect, Rosemary Stjernstedt

Bureau of Care

Take a deeper look into the arboreal artefacts developed with Ki, to encourage moments of collective care and to provide a foundation from which to better communicate and live with many others and many types of others.

Today Ki talks about Central Hill Estate, associating the architectural principles with designing with care. What can we learn?

Today Ki talks about his critical concerns, what has been bothering him since his visit to this temporal zone! (MPP Abstract)

Today Ki talks about Macintosh Court, associating the architectural principles with designing with care. What can we learn?

Ki's CONCERNS

CARE/REPAIR, what does it mean to extend domestic rituals of care into the streets of Streatham, to provoke collective care.

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Curatorial Team

Andreas Lang
Course Leader, M ARCH: Architecture
KE Lead for Placemaking at CSM
a.lang@csm.arts.ac.uk

Catalina Mejía Moreno
Senior Lecturer in Climate Studies
Spatial Practices Department
c.mejiamoreno@csm.arts.ac.uk

Coordination & Partnership

Sven Mündner
Knowledge Exchange Tutor, M ARCH: Architecture
s.mundner@csm.arts.ac.uk / sven@beispiel.london

Ffion Knaggs
Partnerships Manager
f.knaggs@csm.arts.ac.uk

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Decolonize, Decarbonize! Solutions, Not Pollution! London Students Stage a Climate Justice Parade as COP26 Wraps Up

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Hundreds of London art and fashion students took to the streets to “manifest and mobilize creative action” in the fight against climate change. See Christina Fragkou’s coverage of the vibrant event here.

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The Climate Forum brings together students from across Spatial Practices programme to share ideas, connect and act on how their curriculum needs to change in order to address the climate and ecological emergency.

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You can view a growing list of forest related references in this spread sheet.

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‘Kinship’ introduction to Forest Talk: Wilderness by Joy Mulandi