A network of physical objects that promote interaction between humans, spaces and nature. A network that require the collective participation/action of people to become alive, encouraging social interaction and a sense of community in urban spaces.

 

Concept:
Why trees ? Trees provide us air, food and energy – in the city they provides us also with calm and sheerness against the city’s grey environment. The tree’s roots expand the tree throughout space and connect them with other trees creating networks and paths of communication. To communicate is to share, impart, to make common: trees share a common ground/soil through their roots; this project intent is to take advantage of these invisible channels and use them as a way to connect humans that are spatially apart. In the beginnings of human history, trees offered us their fruits becoming our primordial food. Now they offer us new fruits capable of receiving and emitting our thoughts – interfaces for communication.

Nevertheless due to the amount of trees, their roots create mazes where messages can get lost or follow unintended or unexpected directions. The trees roots route the communication flows at their will, at nature’s will. Thus the only available choice for the user is to listen or to speak. The user will be able to share/speak at anytime being his/her choice to interrupt the received message or wait. That’s how far his choice can go, when transmitting his message he will no longer have control on the direction it will follow – no chance to choose the destination. He will also not have a choice on the provenience of the messages he can receive.