Treescapes | Research Project

Treescapes, Voices of the Future project aims to collaborate with children in creating and caring for treescapes that will benefit the environment and wider society in the future. It’s a long-term project that collaborates with researchers, schools, universities and teachers across the UK.

During this project, I created illustrations for the Treescapes website, resources and toolkits - ensuring all outputs have a similar feel, format, and style. Outputs included; website homepage and category illustrations, manifesto design, ‘Thinking about Roots’ resource, activity sheets and lesson plans such as ‘Learning about Trees as a Researcher’, booklet design for ‘Listening to Children, Listening to Trees’ and designing and illustrating ‘The Enchanted Tree’ a book made collaboratively between Seymour Park School and local writer A M Dassu. Within the project, I also ran creative workshops with 90 year 5 children at Seymour Park Community School in Manchester to help put together the environmental manifesto that appeared on billboards across Manchester and Liverpool in collaboration with Mersey Forest and City of Trees and exhibited at Manchester Museum. The manifesto expresses the children’s dreams and demands in their own words, and handwriting through a manifesto font created collaboratively. Project design support from Studio Bilo and Ffion Kilby.