Future Monument to Trees

Kate Farrington’s “Future Monument to the Trees of the Public Garden” is a socially engaged Art project using Augmented Reality (AR) technology to explore environmental ethics through an audio tour of trees within the Boston Public Garden, which during workshops will be transformed into a field research site to consider the role trees play in shaping in Boston’s public imagination. Posing inquiries that question our responsibility to interspecies relationships, the project will feature audio essays penned by workshop participants who adopt a tree and reflect on it through scientific, aesthetic, and ethical lenses, creating “future monuments” that will be accessible via mobile phones and the online archive: www.futuremonumenttotrees.org