seed project

As landscape architects, when we change the shape of the earth and reorganize the relationship between the environment and the creatures that surround it, we plant new trees in that location through our designs. I believe that we are also planting the time that these creatures have connected uninterruptedly. A single tiny seed may shape the landscape for decades or even centuries to come. This book aims to record and convey the efforts of those involved in landscape design, who are neither growers nor researchers, as they interact with a place, looking at local vegetation, collecting seeds, burying them in the soil, nurturing them until they become seedlings, and then planting them back in the earth.

When the trees bear fruit and the fruit ripens, we travel to areas where traditional vegetation remains and collect the seeds. The collected seeds are then dried after removing the flesh and pith.

The dried seeds are planted on pallets and left to germinate.

As you pot up the seedlings, they will gradually grow larger.

The seedlings that have been nurtured over time will be planted at a workshop held with local residents upon completion.