Narratives of the Forest & Tot het bos (To the Forest)
in collaboration with Hellan Godee, Jori Wolf, Pieter de Jong, Dorine van Norren, Keimpe Wieringa, Jessica den Outer, Jeroen van Westen, Tanja Dekker, Marin de Boer, Joeri Lamers, Hugo Lambrechts, Laura Burgers, Frits Mohren, Matthijs Schouten, Koen Arts, Jente Hoogeveen.Autumn 2021, spring 2022
The first stage concluded with two publications. In the Narratives of the Forest anthology, fourteen coalition participants, each involved with the Dutch forest in their own way, wrote short texts about their personal dialogues with the forest. The following topics are covered: the wood-wide-web; the rights-for-nature movement; what it means to cut down a tree; and how a forest can be a subject and no longer the object of suffering. Dramatist and philosopher Hellan Godee wrote the introduction to Narratives of the Forest. In her essay, Tot het bos (To the Forest), philosopher Jente Hoogeveen reflects on the Doorbomen#1 seminar in the context of historical developments of various environmental movements. She gives the reader some practical assignments and shares her personal experiences in relation to the forest.