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Kummargi Gadhaba Yulendj Tarrang [the knowledge of these trees is rising up]

Briggs, C ; Tournier, D ; Martin, B ; Roudavski, S ; Holland, A ; Rutten, J ( 2023)

This project presents an approach that seeks to empower voices of trees through an innovative use of spatial data. To engage with this challenge, we focus on a tree that lives in the south of Australia, near Melbourne. The ancient trunk of this tree retains the marks left by Indigenous Australians who used its bark to make useful objects. Our project seeks to hear from this tree on behalf of all plants. All plants can care for themselves while helping other living beings. Their vegetal contributions are necessary for the survival of all complex lifeforms and yet human knowledge about trees is incomplete and often selfish. To learn further, our research integrates scientific and Indigenous knowledge with a more-than-human approach to making that casts trees as teachers who can help humans do better. Our approach to human-tree collaboration looks for meaning in detailed laser scans and rebuilds them as animated digital marks that can reach diverse human audiences.