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TREE CIRCLE PARTNERS​ 

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We've joined up with Collective Zurciendo el planeta (literally “Darning the planet”) - a Latin American arts collective that believes in mending the planet through incremental changes at home, which in turn can impact and change ourselves and our cities and our governments. 

In recent years Zurciendo el planeta has sought to use arts projects to help illustrate the urgency of the climate crisis and to motivate needed change to assist in the protection of our environment.

For COP26 the Zurciendo el planeta Collective are creating a large scale embroidered forest installation for the streets of Glasgow.
For the Trees for Life project - Zurciendo el planeta are 

1) turning their textile forest installation in Glasgow into an interactive e-installation developed with the artist team of 'Trees for Life' for temporary exhibition in Dundee.  This endeavour will help illustrate the importance of trees to our wider environmental health and well being.

2) offering the Dundee public an opportunity to participate in the development of a large scale textile embroidery artwork about tree species found in Latin America and that are often seeded elsewhere. This work is being directly developed for the City of Dundee in conjunction with the 'Trees for Life' project team in order to help inform the public about the importance of both local and foreign flora used to increase forest density in our local environments.

3) encouraging others in their own network to plant a tree circle - see the call in Spanish on their webpage at https://zurciendoelplaneta.org/planta-un-circulo-de-arboles-con-nosotros/
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OTHER CONTRIBUTORS & ACTIVITIES

4) a tree circle is being planted to help stabilize an embankment in an upcoming off grid community outside of Mexico City at Granja Beró

5) a proposed 'tree circle'  is under consideration for a public plaza in Argentina 

6) Kwantlen Polytechnic University (Canada) is unveiling a small scale agroforestry tree circle in October 2021 on its campus grounds

6) Finland's largest farming and forestry union, MTK, is considering the possibility of how to incorporate a large scale tree circle as part of its commercial operations and replanting Autumn schemes. This action is pending. Of note MTK has already been involved in the past in collaborating with ecological artists to create pioneering art for World Summits, including Agnes Dene's Tree Mountain (1996). For more information see below


PAST ECOLOGICAL TREE ARTWORKS

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TREE MOUNTAIN
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Finland's MTK union assisted in the development of Agnes Dene's Tree Mountain. This artist's project took 14 years from the original design concept in 1982, to its commissioning by the Finnish government at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 to its completion in 1996 in Finland.

​From the artist's website:

The process of bioremediation restores the land from resource extraction use to one in harmony with nature, in this case, the creation of a virgin forest. The planting of trees holds the land from erosion, enhances oxygen production and provides home for wildlife. This takes time and it is one of the reasons why Tree Mountain must remain undisturbed for centuries. The certificate the planters received are numbered and reach 400 years into the future as it takes that long for the ecosystem to establish itself. It is an inheritable document that connects the eleven thousand planters and their descendents reaching into millions, connected by their trees. This family is the original green generation, the term that became so popular recently in people's terminology. This family from around the world are proud custodians of the trees that bear their names and grow through the centuries to a lush manmade virgin forest. Tree Mountain is a collaborative work, from its intricate landscaping and forestry to the funding and contractual agreements for its strange, unheard-of land-use of four centuries. The collaboration expands as eleven thousand people come together to plant the trees that bear their names and remain their property through succeeding generations. The trees can change ownership/people can leave their tree to their heirs, or transfer it by other means, even be buried under it, but Tree Mountain itself can never be owned or sold, nor can the trees be moved from the forest. The trees are made by nature, the mathematical positioning created by the human intellect to form a true alliance of man and nature. 

BECOME A CONTRIBUTING PARTNER

If you are working in conservation, forestry, NGOs and across other industries and have capacity to assist in the delivery of a 'tree circle' or related activity - please reach out to us.  Also please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or require any additional information about the project opportunities..






Who’s behind the project?
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​Trees for Life project has been supported by the British Council’s Creative Commissions 2021 programme. This was a series of creative commissions exploring climate change through art, science and digital technology for presentation at COP26.

Trees for Life continues as an active artists-community collaboration and illustrates that land rehabilitation doesn’t need to be expensive. We understand the benefit of trees to the land and that people can assist in creating better soils and future-proofing sites from climate issues by planting trees. 
 
Trees for Life also highlights that sustainability is dependent on the motivation and generosity of citizens, communities, artists, and scientists working together to redefine the challenges of climate change and to foster the next generation with the idea that we can make an impact through climate art and other creative approaches.

Tree Circles and Trees for Life
 project are co-led by climate design and media artists, Sylvia Grace Borda (Canada) and J.Keith Donnelly (UK) together with partners Ethiopia (ROBA – Rural Organisation for the Betterment of Agro-Pastoralists ) in the UK (Dundee UNESCO City of Design, Dundee City Council, Scotland),  and Canada (Institute for Sustainable Horticulture, Kwantlen Polytechnic University) to creatively respond to global issues of climate change.  ​

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  • Trees for Life
    • The Project
    • Creating Living Artworks
    • Satellite Images
    • Tree Nursery
    • Field Notes from ROBA
    • Youth reflections
    • Climate reflections
    • Elder Knowledge
    • Acknowledging Indigenous Rights
    • Oromo tree circle
    • The Lion
    • Adopt a Tree
    • Celebrations
    • What's Next
    • Symposium
  • TREE CIRCLES
    • Plant Graffiti
    • TREE CIRCLES
    • Partners
  • Internet of Nature
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