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It is a scheme made for a competition to envisioning the transformation of the Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Park, which is naturally associated with more provocative discourse due to its political and historical presence. Being in no cultural position and with only the surface understanding towards its political and historical aspect, the proposal took the stance from an urban viewpoint instead- considering the park to become a truly public realm.

Inspired by the artist Joseph Beuys’s 7000 Oaks project, the memorial park is seen as a public square, urban forest, and blank canvas which should be liberated from its past regime. Planting trees as a participatory effort yet a time-based cultivation for personal sentiments, the idea of ‘social sculpture’ is formed- which art of the collective has the potential to bring about revolutionary change

and that everyone can contribute creatively to it. Over the decades, we may see the tree canopies grow mature, public activities spilled over, and the authoritarian image of the memorial hall and statement of power is being covered by the wilderness- to completely transformed into a part of the nature, urban, or the people.