{"id":521,"date":"2019-09-12T11:18:38","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T11:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/shapesandletters\/?p=521"},"modified":"2020-08-11T13:30:18","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T13:30:18","slug":"maarten-baas-the-new-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shapes-and-letters.surfacepressure.net\/?p=521","title":{"rendered":"Maarten Baas \u2013\u00a0The New Forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The New Forest\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/162202417?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With new techniques (such as Google Earth or drones) we increasingly familiarize ourselves with the view of earth from above. From this perspective, one could see the planet as a sculpture, or a canopy as a canvas. For The NEW Forest, trees will be planted in a specific arrangement, selected by the colours of their leaves and their corresponding foliage. As the forest ages, a design will slowly arise. By 2216, the forest will be fully-grown and an aerial perspective will reveal a souvenir from the 21st century: a flashy logo saying \u201cNEW!\u201d Each season shows different colour combinations, generating a new NEW! logo for years to come.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/maartenbaas.com\/200-years\/the-new-forest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/maartenbaas.com\/200-years\/the-new-forest\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With new techniques (such as Google Earth or drones) we increasingly familiarize ourselves with the view of earth from above. From this perspective, one could see the planet as a sculpture, or a canopy as a canvas. For The NEW Forest, trees will be planted in a specific arrangement, selected by the colours of their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-environmental-typography","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shapes-and-letters.surfacepressure.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shapes-and-letters.surfacepressure.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shapes-and-letters.surfacepressure.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shapes-and-letters.surfacepressure.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shapes-and-letters.surfacepressure.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shapes-and-letters.surfacepressure.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":530,"href":"https:\/\/shapes-and-letters.surfacepressure.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions\/530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shapes-and-letters.surfacepressure.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shapes-and-letters.surfacepressure.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shapes-and-letters.surfacepressure.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}