The contemporary Finnish attitude to the forest is built upon historic values which commercialism has disregarded. Equally, in the city of Espoo, urban development policies prioritise mature stand protection resulting in the systematic erosion of the forest’s edge for residential development.

A ‘modelling-first’ methodology to the project was applied, which at analysis phase involved the production of a site-measurement device, ultimately identifying the project’s problem statement; the inevitably of humans’ disruptive impact on the landscape.

In response, three strategies are proposed; disrupt, nurture and distribute.

Disrupt imagines the symbolic felling of high-voltage electricity pylons in a radical act that ‘rewires’ socio-environmental relationships and promotes a new phase of successional forest development.

Nurture then activates residential communities in the propagation of pioneer species to speed up the successional development timeline.

Finally, distribute installs augmented reality towers into the landscape that instruct citizen users of the forest to take greater ownership of the ecosystem and actively plant the propagated juveniles in suitable locations.