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The One Tree Project

The One Tree Project

An interdisciplinary Landscape Architecture design studio

Posted on October 4, 2017 by rob birch

If A Tree Falls…

This recording is a result of embedding two contact microphones into either side of a tree trunk as the tree is cut down.

https://theonetreeproject.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/ste-010.wav

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ABOUT

This interdisciplinary design studio proposes to use the redevelopment of the historic pin-oak allee at Washington University in St. Louis as catalyst for a project-based investigation of our landscape and resource legacy. With the imminent transformation this cultural landscape, this course will be structured around an historical and ecological analysis and evaluation of an 85 year old oak allee in an effort to offer a window into the greater meaning of trees in our urban ecosystem and cultures. Working with arborists, ecologists, landscape architects, sculptors, dendrochronologists, craftspeople, and poets, students will interrogate the many meanings of one tree — from root to crown, from microbial sub-soil cultures to species habitats in its highest branches, from the monoculture of the 50 trees in the allee to the diverse community in Forest Park and beyond. The class will be organized around the ritual lifting of a single tree in advance of the campus transformation, with subsequent cutting, dimensioning, and drying of the wood forming the material basis for design research.

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  • alisaebee
  • v o g l e r
  • kbotnick
  • margotshafran
  • natrainer
  • opheliaji
  • Allana
  • rob birch
  • scott a mitchell
  • Shu

Collaborators

  • Ben Chu
  • Bill Spradley
  • Bruce Lindsey
  • Charlie Vinz
  • Chris Topp
  • Dan Chitwood
  • David Gunn
  • Doug Ladd
  • Frank Rinn
  • Guy Mott
  • Jennifer Colten
  • Jenny Price
  • Joshua Carron
  • Kent Theiling
  • Michael Stambaugh
  • Richard Guyette
  • Rod Barnett
  • Scott Mangan
  • Skip Kincaid
  • Tomislav Zigo

Sympathetic Projects

  • Living Systems
  • Neukom Vivarium
  • One Tree(s)
  • Tree Museum
  • Tree University
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