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(Archive) StormHout - StormWood

The bench you sit on is asking serious questions. Do you know where its wood came from, or what exactly happened to the tree? Would you like to know?

This project was part of DDW 2019
Atelier NL — © Blickfänger

Following a violent storm last June, Atelier NL wondered about the fate of the hundreds of trees that were uprooted in the city. Who clears them, who replants them and what happens to the wood? StormHout asks questions about the use of forests and encourages discussion about our local surroundings.

It is impossible to know if global warming caused the storm that toppled nearly one-thousand trees. These will take years to replace. Yet trees absorb CO2 from the atmosphere and use it to grow, storing carbon in their trunks and branches. So to fight cli