2021- Now
Building Conservation Networks,
Engagement, GIS, Photography
Building Conservation Networks is an environmental art and creative engagement project that focuses on using art to raise awareness about urban, old-growth trees. Our research is dovetailing with the local municipality to foster new and innovative approaches to conserve and enhance the urban forest.


Mapping the Invisible
Building Conservation Networks is an environmental art and creative engagement project that focuses on using art to raise awareness about urban, old-growth trees. Our research is dovetailing with the local municipality to foster new and innovative approaches to conserve and enhance the urban forest.

Hamilton is known as an industrial center and an arts city. It is also an Eco-city.
2021- Now
Environmental Artwork
Building Conservation Networks is a multi-sited installation created by Lesia Mokrycke to raise awareness through science-based artworks about the present degradation of the urban forest, and emphasize that by restoring habitat and protecting old-growth trees in urban centers, we can both reduce carbon emissions and protect the planet.
Click on the menu to learn about each tree species, share a story, and view the index. Our research is dovetailing with the local municipality to foster new and innovative approaches to conserve and enhance the urban forest. Made possible through the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.

Building Conservation Networks
URBAN
FOREST
LAB


