Trees as Teachers

Trees as Teachers

At info desk in Alston: lend out earphone walking tours like in a museum of the arboretum on campus. Lend hammocks. Create an interactive paper piece that talks about how to see on the walk (framing views, drawing contour, drawing for information). Partner with philosophy, art, history, english etc. to enrich these pieces. Make it a series, every year add another discipline: how can you look at a tree/landscape form an historical point of view? Studio art point of view? Philosophical point of view? Use the arboretum as the focus of a series of student engagement projects. End product is a thing that asks questions in the manner of the discipline that visitors can pick up and take with them/perform.

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