The village where we are based in western New York has seen a decline in the forest canopy. I have personally seen the removal of more than 50 trees on a .5 km street in the decade that I have lived here.
Working with street trees is a major undertaking and presents the multi-faceted type of projects we are interested in investigating and designing for. To celebrate this, we are opening a formal project centered around street trees in rural communities. We invite those interested in finding innovative solutions to join us in the process.
With this project, we will continue our efforts that seek to define, question, and celebrate the human relationship with forests and trees. Taking what we have learned from past projects, and specifically Megan’s doctoral work in Transition Design addressing the anthrosylvan interface. This includes her 2020 project “Urban Forestry Interventions” at Carnegie Mellon in conjunction with Tree Pittsburgh, and our 2015 Project Hidden Frontiers Project, along with many others.
As the project develops further calls to collaborate will be open. In the meantime interested collaborators, co-creators, interested citizens are invited to sign back in and follow us on Instagram as I dust off the old account.