Abstract
Abstract This article presents a practice-led investigation by a cross-disciplinary team of artists and computer scientists into the potential for mobile and digital communications technologies to engage visitors to London's Hampstead Heath with the histories of its veteran urban trees. Focusing on the application of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies within the arboreal environment for the digital poetic walk, The Listening Wood, it considers the reciprocal impact of “tree time” on the development of “slow tech.”
Highlights
These text-based interactions punctuated audience experiences of The Listening Wood, a digital poetic walk around fourteen of the “veteran” trees of Hampstead Heath resulting from a collaboration between artists, technologists and arborists from UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA), and the City of London Corporation
The signal aim of this research project, while indebted to the walking practices of artists including Alec Finlay [1], was to discover how pervasive mobile communications devices and technologies associated with the Internet of Things (IoT) might be utilized to engage visitors with the cultural and social histories of London’s veteran trees and to negotiate different temporal registers in which human and arboreal lives intersect
While this area of semantic overlap suggested the potential for mobile and IoT technologies to imaginatively reconfigure the relationship between humans and trees to the Listening Wood team, the implementation of an interactive, technologybased installation in Hampstead Heath presented a number of challenges
Summary
These text-based interactions punctuated audience experiences of The Listening Wood, a digital poetic walk around fourteen of the “veteran” trees of Hampstead Heath resulting from a collaboration between artists, technologists and arborists from UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA), and the City of London Corporation. The signal aim of this research project, while indebted to the walking practices of artists including Alec Finlay [1], was to discover how pervasive mobile communications devices and technologies associated with the Internet of Things (IoT) might be utilized to engage visitors with the cultural and social histories of London’s veteran trees and to negotiate different temporal registers in which human and arboreal lives intersect.
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