Outputs & Outcomes

Outputs & Outcomes: 

Results & Achievements

Impact & Dissemination

 

This page displays the Achievements & Outcomes resulting from the Arboreal Futures project.

The practical aims, ‘tangible results’ of the project were

1. Creation of publicly accessible ‘arboreal spaces’
2. Collections of local & regional stories & pictures re: trees
3. New skills developed re: tree management & conservation
4. Celebratory events for communities associated with the arbor

The partners shared their experiences associated with achieving them during Transnational meetings, through written reports & this project web site.

 

Trees: 
The core element of the partnership

 

LT: KVB

Created a green wall in Kaunas County Public Library.

Constructed 2 free little libraries built and trees planted in Birštonas and Prienai

 

 

 

 

 

 

UK: P.I.D.

Provided trees for planting in newly acquired recreation area in local town

Established the ‘connected neighbouring orchards’

…. and ‘neighbourhood’ cider

 

 

 

CZ: OSKA

Maintained a rolling programme throughout the project of species selection & planting throughout the Kohoutov community

 

 

 

IT: ICOREC

Cleared and planted a public space in Spilinga

Began work on a second space provided by the local council

 

 

 

RO: LTMA

Adopted the theme as a description for the learning processes they encourage

Restored & maintained an orchard in school grounds.

Planted memorial trees in another school

 

 

 

Tree Stories

Each partner provided stories of local trees which were developed as video cartoons by KVB: (Kauno apskrities viešoji biblioteka: Kaunas Public Library).

All the stories are presented together & the Lithuanian partner provided an introduction:

Plants are uniting topic of Arboreal Futures project.

Project partners collected their local stories about trees, plants, nature.

It was very interesting to observe the importance and symbolism of this topic in each nation.

Stories help us understand each others culture better and learn from each other.

• UK and Romania tells us stories about power of community, which unites to protect trees and to save it for the future generations.
• Italy tells us about parents, who are always looking how to help their children.
• Lithuania tells a story about tragedy of losing the ones you love.
• Czech story tells about the duty to help others.

Have you noticed, ….. all these stories are about common values?

The accompanying texts are recorded on the LT web pages:
https://exploringarbours.wordpress.com/kaunas/stories-and-animations/

 

 

Tree Poems:

Were chosen by partners and read during a tree planting ceremony at the final partnership meeting in Iasi.

The reading was recorded:

 

Presented in the order being read on the video

UK:

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now

BY A. E. HOUSMAN

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now

Is hung with bloom along the bough,

And stands about the woodland ride

Wearing white for Eastertide.

 

Now, of my threescore years and ten,

Twenty will not come again,

And take from seventy springs a score,

It only leaves me fifty more.

 

And since to look at things in bloom

Fifty springs are little room,

About the woodlands I will go

To see the cherry hung with snow.

 

Lietuva

 

Česko

Italia

România

Reversed tree, with roots in the wind,
with broad soles like the leaf of the platter,
almost floating, barely touching
the seasons of the year.
With his hands cut like oak leaves,
with the deep-fruited trunk
in which the bears sleep with their heads down, in vain
to a sky of earth wishing to arrive.

Always with the empty brain, with the ideas
reappeared as a hill rotated trees,
going to the clouds, to the cliffs
of the non-luminous.
Seen as in the water, always,
and rushing by a wind of earth,
with the roots in the rainbow
and in colors that are not.

The reversed tree was left, torn from the sphere
with this sphere, twin …
And everything seems to me, but nothing
from what I know with what is not like

 

 

 

 

Celebrations & Dissemination

These varied in form being dependent on local context & opportunity

 

Italia

Local schools festivals promoting the project principles & action

Celebratory moments with partners

meals with local officials

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

România

Promoting the project through rural community links & by engaging very creative teachers working in remote districts with disadvantaged students

Using the project in cooperation with other celebratory promotions

Associating the project with traditional festivals: Martisor

https://exploringarbours.wordpress.com/iasi/romanian-spring-traditions-martisor/

 

 

 

Česko

OSKA is an organisation concerned with the holistic re-establishment of a sense community:
environmentally, culturally, economically, emotionally and spiritually.

Their first action was to save the local parish church from closure after which the work expanded.
They now use the church for their own celebrations – and link those celebrations with Arboreal Futures.
There is no heating but there are celebrations – this, just before Christmas 2018, led by a local volunteer chorale ensemble

In 2017 national TV, filmed & broadcast the cider production (an ‘all-age’ activity!)

More details at
https://exploringarbours.wordpress.com/kohoutov/summer-2017/

 

 

 

Lietuva

The Green Wall was opened with a celebration that brought around 100 guests to the library

Opening a new ‘beehive’ library produced a celebration in the Prienai community – and further interest in the Arboreal Futures project.

Events included creative activities for younger students

And the local team organised informal weekend activities in the local forests

 

 

UK

The work began with celebration. A further celebratory wassail event was held in 2018 and the event will occur again in 2019 (and hopefully beyond) as a way of celebrating & sustaining the growing development of the ‘community orchard’ aspect of the project

 

The local team also assisted at Newtown food festival, being able to inform local Councillors, Assembly members & French ‘twinning partners’ of the project.

 

 

 

 

 

More:

Some random examples

 

Engaging families: IT

 

 

Supporting local community initiatives (constructing a forest shelter for cycling/walking trail): RO

 

 

 

Encouraging the next generation: RO & CZ

 

 

 

Learning new skills and techniques: LT

 

 

 

Promoting: IT & CZ

Spreading the word: CZ

 

Serendipitous media encounters: UK interviewed in RO

 

 

Encouraging learning: IT

 

 

Increasing personal knowledge (and food safety!): RO

 

 

Researching, Restoring, Renewing: UK

 

 

Opening up new spaces & engaging new volunteers: IT

…… and new contacts: RO

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Engaging with commerce: CZ

 

 

Supporting green initiatives: UK & RO

 

 

Exploring Hidden Ways & New Routes: LT

 

 

 

Experiencing tradition: LT & IT

 

 

Ancient tradition:

new dance techniques

 

 

 

Sharing visions:

& patterns of beauty 

 

 

 

LT & RO Cooking in Harmony

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and securing them for the future

 

 

Struggling to succeed & overcoming all difficulties

we celebrate our successes.

 

And the project moves  forward: exploring new ideas and proposals.

 

 

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