Leeuwarden
Arcadia
When the inhabitants of Leeuwarden look out of their window, they see 1200 trees in 800 containers passing by. In 100 days the trees will ‘walk’ 3,5 kilometers, with a little help from many enthusiastic volunteers. There are also projects on education, participation and culture within the forest, all with the goal of shifting people’s perspective. Doedens: “Humanity is only 200,000 years old, trees are 350 million years old if I am not mistaken. So as a species we are teenagers. Adolescents are allowed to thrash about. But at some point you have to grow up: guys, clean up that room! Someone has to be the first. Therefore we need ideas that show: if this is possible, anything is.”
initiatives
More info
https://arcadia.frl/projecten/bosk/
https://www.brunodoedens.nl/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwDtFfUjpNA
https://winterschool.planetparadise.nl/essay/
(Essay by Bruno Doedens)
According to artistic director Bruno Doedens, Bosk (part of 100-day arts festival Arcadia) is about making the impossible possible. Doedens is a landscape artist who connects social relevance with radical imagination and the mobilization of social energy. “From that way of working I came to the thought: what if trees started walking? Aren’t we humans then capable of changing too? It's about activating the guts to change to a more sustainable world. And it works: people are already saying: beautiful, all this green! Please keep it.”
Green Cities
Leeuwarden
One of the most remarkable green initiatives taking place in European cities is the project ‘Bosk’, currently happening in Leeuwarden. More than a thousand trees are (literally) walking through the former European Capital of Culture (2018), thereby forcing people to rethink their role in an urban environment normally dominated by humans.
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More info
https://arcadia.frl/projecten/bosk/
https://www.brunodoedens.nl/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwDtFfUjpNA
https://winterschool.planetparadise.nl/essay/
(Essay by Bruno Doedens)
When the inhabitants of Leeuwarden look out of their window, they see 1200 trees in 800 containers passing by. In 100 days the trees will ‘walk’ 3,5 kilometers, with a little help from many enthusiastic volunteers. There are also projects on education, participation and culture within the forest, all with the goal of shifting people’s perspective. Doedens: “Humanity is only 200,000 years old, trees are 350 million years old if I am not mistaken. So as a species we are teenagers. Adolescents are allowed to thrash about. But at some point you have to grow up: guys, clean up that room! Someone has to be the first. Therefore we need ideas that show: if this is possible, anything is.”
initiatives
According to artistic director Bruno Doedens, Bosk (part of 100-day arts festival Arcadia) is about making the impossible possible. Doedens is a landscape artist who connects social relevance with radical imagination and the mobilization of social energy. “From that way of working I came to the thought: what if trees started walking? Aren’t we humans then capable of changing too? It's about activating the guts to change to a more sustainable world. And it works: people are already saying: beautiful, all this green! Please keep it.”
One of the most remarkable green initiatives taking place in European cities is the project ‘Bosk’, currently happening in Leeuwarden. More than a thousand trees are (literally) walking through the former European Capital of Culture (2018), thereby forcing people to rethink their role in an urban environment normally dominated by humans.
Leeuwarden
Green Cities