Fieldnotes: Weeks 424 – 425
Two short weeks at FF… and we’ve largely been ideating in the field, or in particular amongst the trees for Project Canopy (back on track) and Project Lumière (near the finish line).
Friday Links
This weeks Friday links is a bit of a tree special.
Over in Melbourne the city is doing some good work in terms of creating a dataset of the cities urban forest. Oom Creative have done a lovely job of making the cities trees legible in terms of their species and health. My favourite aspect is through the website you can email any of the trees — the email is actually to the cities tree department and is a really smart way to report to the city on the trees health, vandalism etc.
See Melbourne’s entire Urban Forest here.
I’d heard before of early experiments in the early 1900’s about turning trees into antennaes for trans-atlantic communication — and it was a delight to discover Jalila Essaïdi a dutch artist re-exploring this and reinvigorating the ubiquity of trees as a medium of communication. Take a look at her ‘Living Network’ project here.
This project is utterly beautiful. I couldn’t find out much about it other than it appears to be an artist commission for a beer. To be fair it really doesn’t need an explanation as it really speaks for itself:
In a similar territory:
Another project that caught my attention was this: Dr Matthias Disney of UCL has been using terrestrial laser scanning to accurately weigh trees… interesting in it’s own right but the real value here is by measuring the carbon biomass stored within forests so we can better understand how important the forests of the world are in storing the increasing levels of carbon produced by man… We hope to see this research create a solid argument for halting unsustainable deforestation.
All of this is making me really obsessed with tree visualisation… I’d especially love to explore using LIDAR at some point in the future.
Meanwhile over the last two weeks we’ve been over to Walthamstow Wetlands where we saw some lovely looking bat-bricks.
We popped into the V&A to see The Future Starts Here. A really lovely show, well done Mariana and Rory.
We also swung by a second time to the Serpentine to see Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s London Mastaba in all it’s glory.
Finally a nice little surprise to find The Art of Campari at the Estorick Collection
This week we also wave goodbye to studiomates Comuzi — really sad to see them go but rumblings of a possible collaboration with Comuzi and Studio Lovesong down the line.
Next week we carry on with Canopy and Lumière and also kick off Jagger a small but potentially lovely new public realm project.
See you next week.
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