The Trees and Their People. A residency with Studio Peisaj
A micro-research project on the relationship between trees and the people of Fabric's inhabited courtyards — and on the roles trees play within their communities.
"We start from the premise that trees are remnants of gestures made by past generations — and, at the same time, beings of the district in the present."
Part ofSocial Fabric #3
In the inhabited courtyards of Fabric, trees are not decoration. Someone planted them once; someone else lives in their shade today. In their research residency, Studio Peisaj set out to explore exactly that relationship — the trees and their people.
The research follows the role, or rather the roles, that trees hold within the communities they belong to, and through them the ways people relate to urban nature. "We start from the premise that trees are remnants of gestures made by past generations — and, at the same time, beings of the district in the present," the two write. The micro-research is part of a broader effort to understand the landscape of this historic district: the landscape study for the Fabric conservation-area zoning plan, on which the team is working.
Studio Peisaj (Raluca Rusu and Alexandru Ciobotă) is an informal group working through landscape interventions anchored in layered local identities and local knowledge: experimenting with forms of nature — both biodiverse and productive — and facilitating the interaction between people, community and nature, bringing academic training into landscape design through interdisciplinary collaborations, creative workshops and landscape curating.