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We bring these together...
...to create this.
That is, we connect the disconnected worlds of
trees
and biodiversity
and creativity
(like painting
and music
and photography)
and technology
(like environmental
sensors, AI and blockchain)
and, most importantly,
the child that's hidden in us all.
We bring all those together around Highly Sensitive Trees
to create
Overlaps
Overlap
noun | /ˈəʊvəˌlap/
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A shared space where nature, creativity, technology, and humans meet.
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A living intersection in which different disciplines, species, or ways of knowing interact and influence one another.
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A designed encounter — physical or digital — that reveals new meaning, insight, or experience through connection.
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What are Highly Sensitive Trees
We take iconic, well-loved trees that already mean something to communities - and endow them with special powers.
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We equip them with an array of environmental sensors.
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We install biodiversity monitoring equipment.
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We create AI personas for the trees so we can talk to them and so they can respond.
And then, we make these (now) Highly Sensitive Trees the focal points for all kinds of Overlaps. They become hosts for a vast new world of ever-expanding creative content, events, music, research, technology, storytelling, discovery and connection.
You'll see what we mean -
A Highly Sensitive Tree is something much, much more than just branches and leaves.
Our Team
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We're a small, but highly passionate team whose minds (and values) are Venn-diagram-shaped (Venn diagrams - the overlapping circles that serve as inspiration for our logo).
We love living in the Overlaps - we love the stretching, the growing, the discovery, the fulfilment - and love to share this space with others.
Want to know more about our backgrounds and what we stand for?
How to get involved? Become a Canopy Community member for access to full content
We don't believe in charging people to experience trees. So, most of our Overlaps have public layers that are free to explore, right here on our site.
If you do want to explore the rich content in deeper layers of our Overlaps, then why not join the HST Canopy Community. Membership gives you access to the full Overlaps and opens the door to active participation, contribution engagement.
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