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?
Hosted by Atelier NLThis project is now archived and was part of DDW19
Event type
Exhibition
Location
Strijp-S
Ketelhuisplein
Ketelhuisplein
5617 AE
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
Participants of this exhibition
About Atelier NL
Atelier NL develops products that showcase the richness of the earth and the value of local raw materials. Each earthly element tells a different story and yields a different product. Atelier NL’s work is based on a passionate and unique research methodology that analyzes the hidden narratives of the earth and all that it produces. Atelier NL speaks to the graceful subtleties of the natural world by reshaping raw earth elements into tangible, everyday objects.
Colofon
Forestmanagers — partner Atelier NL
Coöperatie Bosgroep Zuid Nederland
Designer — partner Atelier NL
Dries van Wagenberg
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