Tree time is an art-based imagination for future generations...
Activities encourage people to a spiritual, cultural and behavioural transformation around nature, as a starting point for tackling the climate crisis and commit to taking individual action towards leaving a better world for future generations.
Tree Time is a participatory work: it will be installed on the gallery wall and used during participatory experiences for visitors.
The ritual experience:
Tree Time is a participatory work: it will be installed on the gallery wall and used during participatory experiences for visitors.
The ritual experience:
- Helps those present imagine and dream of hopeful and alternative futures
- Use art as a radical and exciting framing that invites people to step outside of what they already know
- Uses nature connection and long-time thinking to create awe and wonder
- Builds on cutting-edge sciences and emerging thinking on nature connection, ‘connectedness’, wellbeing and ritual
- Is based on five pathways of nature connection: Contact, emotion, compassion, meaning, and beauty (Lumber, 2017)
- Has been created considering ethical, social environmental and regenerative principles
- Can be adapted for different people, contexts and futures
- Is emotional, playful and memorable