In spring 2025, I assisted a team in preparing a proposal for one of the two Slow Pavilions at the first Copenhagen Architecture Biennial (September 18th to October 19th). The theme, Slow Down, explores architecture […]
Tag: circular economy
Reclaiming Forgotten Elm Trees in the United Kingdom
Three years ago, I was reading “Barn Club – A Tale of Forgotten Elm Trees, Traditional Craft and Community Spirit” by Robert Somerville, as some sort of preparation for a new chapter in my career […]
Coming home
To get things out of the way, I would like to begin my first blog with death. As integral part of, not in opposition to, life. Sweet foreshadowing of coming home, full circle. The western […]
The mermaids of the Sun Moon Lake are Taiwanese Circular Society actors
In August 2023, I spent two weeks in Taiwan. The primary reason for my visit was to attend the wedding of two friends—interestingly, a pair whom I had introduced to each other, back in Japan […]
Let Us Believe in the ‘End’ of the Cold Season – a snow flurry forest bath
Since a few days I am back in Belgium, sooner than I expected when I was writing my last woodwide story about Belgium in end of November: A kiss in the shadow of a linden […]
Stories from the Wood Wide Web 