SPQ Artist
Trees of Tomorrow: A Speculative Tour and Workstation is conceptualized, organized, and executed by Margaretha Haughwout (Guerrilla Grafters), Cody Herrmann and Julian Louis Phillips of Social Practice Queens and John Bowne High School Agriculture Department, initiated along with Greg Sholette and Randall Szott.
Trees of Tomorrow
Trees of Tomorrow is a guided, speculative tour of the trees of Flushing, exposing the ways trees shape, and are shaped by, neighborhoods, economies, and soils of Flushing; a complementary self-guided tour publication, echoing a futuristic theme; and a speculative workstation modeled in collaboration with John Bowen High School students where we collectively collapse the nature/society divide through specific cultural uses of a sampling of Flushing’s trees and tree grafting. Trees of Tomorrow asks how to empower new natural-cultural futures that enable local solidarity and survival across species.
