Increasingly, forests are planted to repair cities. Architects and developers are embracing building at scale with timber – an important material in remedying housing crises. But overconsumption still looms large – constructing out of timber at the same profit-fuelled rate remains unsustainable. Instead, we must imagine, as Paulo Tavares explains in the keynote, that ‘the foundational design‑act does not rest on clearing the forest, but rather on the continued practice of its cultivation’. Read the full editorial and issue contents.
