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Infusing sensory knowledge into tree literacy

Tang, Rennie ; Panourgia, Eleni-Ira LU orcid ; Sandlos, Lisa ; Martin, Jackie ; Tittler, Rebecca ; Lach-Aidelbaum, Maya and Miller, Liz (2025) Uncommon Senses V p.87-87
Abstract
This workshop investigates sensory dimensions of trees as a way to build upon tree literacy efforts by researchers affiliated with the Concordia Tree Project on the Loyola Campus. As a laboratory of micro-forests for students and the Montreal community to learn about the wealth of trees on the campus, this forestry project aligns well with the cross-disciplinary project Sonic Kinesthetic Forest (SKF), a collaboration between a movement analyst/choreographer, sound artist and landscape designer. This interactive workshop will bring both projects together to experiment with modes of
listening and sound-making, embodied drawing and somatic-kinesthetic exploration of selected trees on campus. Guided by both the Concordia and the SKF... (More)
This workshop investigates sensory dimensions of trees as a way to build upon tree literacy efforts by researchers affiliated with the Concordia Tree Project on the Loyola Campus. As a laboratory of micro-forests for students and the Montreal community to learn about the wealth of trees on the campus, this forestry project aligns well with the cross-disciplinary project Sonic Kinesthetic Forest (SKF), a collaboration between a movement analyst/choreographer, sound artist and landscape designer. This interactive workshop will bring both projects together to experiment with modes of
listening and sound-making, embodied drawing and somatic-kinesthetic exploration of selected trees on campus. Guided by both the Concordia and the SKF research teams, participants will explore sensory ways of knowing the tree species planted within the site’s micro-forest. Participants will be invited to interpret sounds, images, textures, movements and other stimuli associated with tree and animal
activity, leaves, bark and birdsong. These multi-sensory interpretations will be woven together to create hand-drawn scores and audiovisual forms of the sonic kinesthetic experience. The workshop will take place at a research site on the campus that features 239 trees representing the biodiversity found in local wild spaces. The participants' tree-specific explorations will generate embodied-sensory data to be
recorded and integrated into the tree species database being developed by the Concordia team. We see this as the beginning of a long-term international collaboration, evolving alongside the maturing campus trees, which infuses sensory knowledge into the growing body of research and tree-planting initiatives at Concordia, across Montreal and beyond. (Less)
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Uncommon Senses V
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Montreal, Canada
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2025-05-07 - 2025-05-10
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English
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  author       = {{Tang, Rennie and Panourgia, Eleni-Ira and Sandlos, Lisa and Martin, Jackie and Tittler, Rebecca and Lach-Aidelbaum, Maya and Miller, Liz}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{87--87}},
  title        = {{Infusing sensory knowledge into tree literacy}},
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  year         = {{2025}},
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