Exhibition "Trees, Time, Architecture!"

Trees are not only among the largest, oldest and most complex creatures on earth, they also grow extremely slowly - often taking decades or even centuries to reach their full size. This means that they exceed the standards of human life and their temporality is at odds with the constantly accelerating pace of social, technological and ecological change. At the same time, we need them now more than ever: locally, to adapt to the new reality of a drastically changing climate, and globally, to stop climate change and perhaps even reverse it at some point.

"Trees, Time, Architecture!" uses historical and current international examples to examine the potentials and contradictions of "building on trees" in architecture and landscape architecture. The exhibition sheds light on the tension between the slowness with which trees grow and the urgency of finding answers to burning ecological and social questions here and now.

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