T(h)ree
Clarence Gardens, London, UK
Co-created with residents of Regent’s Park Estate, T(h)ree is a permanent landscape intervention in Central London, integrating community knowledge with natural infrastructure and AI technology to give ‘voice’ to a London Plane Tree that has witnessed hundreds of years of history, so people can talk with it and ask questions.

Every now and then, you’ll hear it humming the melody to ‘Daisy Bell’, which was sung in 1961 by the first computer speech synthesis system, a reference here to the fact that technological systems often misunderstand human categories (‘daisy’, the nearby flower, versus ‘Daisy’, a person’s name).