But farmers would be a bit annoyed to hear me. Because this comes with all my privilege of growing things without having to eat it or to sell it. I am aware of this luxury of being an experimental place. Because of this luxury we can also test more, experiment more, and then be more surprised, when it works, the experiment. And this is, where the beauty lays. Because you are like: Ah, look. Ah, it worked.
I like the amateurism of the greenhouse for this. I feel that I am in this institution that is like overly proud and arrogant for all the controlled techno fiction that they do. It is a way to show the students, that you can still like learn a lot from just trying and trying also to control a little bit less.
Greenhouse mit Kenza, Kenza spricht hier über den Wachstum, das Pflanzen und Pflegen in einem "experimentellen Gewächshaus" an
der ETH

The holm oak is the tree I feel connected to. Much more than the olive tree. Because the olives were always connected to production. The work. When my parents were talking. “This year the prize is decreasing.” “We do not produce enough.” It was connected to business. To the ways of production. More something that makes you worry and not relax. Just work. So, for me it’s really the holm oak.
We have on our land different spots of forest. And these woods are just oak trees. They are huge.
The fruit. You don’t eat them but back in the days people were making – Coffee? – And bread. You can make flour. I am very in love with these trees.
Wald und Agrarflächen am Stadtrand mit Laura, spricht hier über eine Landschaft mit Olivenhain in Südspanien
In my first experience with magic mushrooms. The thing that got me most was that
They are also very important to me. And very special. Every time I look at them I can still see them breathing and I realize how we are connected. A think that’s also why I like it here under the Trees.
Seepromenade mit Adriana
David Reason, 1987 :40 in: Ingold, Tim. The Perception of the Environment : Essays on Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill. London [etc: Routledge, 2000. Print.
[Longer pause, talking slowely, dreamily] Sometimes I talk to them [laughs].
To the trees?
Yes. [still laughing]
About?
No, I mean just like:
Seepromenade mit Adriana
Spirituality is present to my family. This tree. I show it to you first. Last time my aunt came here to the greenhouse. I had a meeting, so I had to do something else, and then I saw her wandering around. And then in the end she came to me and said: “Now the tree will protect you. I asked him to protect you.”
Greenhouse mit Kenza
Und das ist glaub ein bisschen mein Lieblingsbereich. Hier rund um die Kapelle finde ich es mega
Ich habe wie so das Gefühl, die Leute hier ruhen besonders gut.
Friedhof Sihlfeld mit Stephanie
Facts & Figures
Wann ist ein Wald?
1 Baum = 1 Baum
2 Bäume = 1 Wald
So einfach ist es nicht. In der Schweiz sowieso nicht. Die Mindestgrösse eines Waldes ist kantonal unterschiedlich 'geregelt'. Aber zwei Bäume reichen selbst dem kleinsten Kanton noch nicht aus. Gleichzeitig ist ein Wald ein Ökosystem und der einzeln stehende Baum ist nie ganz allein sondern Teil eines Gewebes, eines Prozesses.
It cannot be just a forest with trees only. It must be multilayered again. And trees also aesthetically look like pillars.
Like how the tree can bring shade and how the roots of the tree bring shelter for microorganism and then you have a little bit more fungi and then it becomes interesting.
Greenhouse mit Kenza
Hundert bis hundertfünfzig Jahre bedeutet vielleicht zwei Baumgenerationen. Der Wald wird bestehen bleiben. Auch mit dem Klimawandel. Aber vielleicht kann er nicht mehr diese Funktionen, welche er jetzt hat, immer erfüllen. Wie der Schutzwald. Vielleicht gibt es die Bäume, die diesen Schutz bieten könnten, nicht mehr. Vielleicht gibt es mehr Sträucher oder was auch immer. Oder Erholungssuchende. Vielleicht reicht das nicht mehr für das, was sie im Wald suchen, aus. Aber
Waldstück im Entlebuch mit Bruno