Adapt Transform Stories

A dark blue line map of Oxford with locations highlighted in different tones of blue and bright green to illustrate areas with Trees.

David Gasca

David Gasca is an environmental scientist and artist. He uses a range of different media from photography, video, mapping, sculpture, printing and painting to investigate the relationships between people, environment and place. By often favouring a birds eye perspective, his investigations changes and patterns in the urban and rural landscape. For the Oxford Map of Trees, he is using laser altimetry data for the city to provide a classic map view of the current urban treescape in Oxford. By considering where trees are now, what patterns exist and how different features are linked we can identify where and how we need to act to expand the network of trees across the city.

This is Adapt Transform Stories, a thematic series exploring community responses to urban design and creativity.

Presented alongside our current exhibition Adapt Transform, each week discover a different story told through the exhibition, from deeply personal experiences of home and the city, to the environmental projects transforming our spaces in the face of climate change.

Adapt Transform Stories is a new series created with the exhibition’s co-curators, a group of 15 Modern Art Oxford volunteers who selected Adapt Transform exhibiting artists and creatives through a local call out. The curators warmly invite you to visit the artworks presented at both Modern Art Oxford and The Glass Tank Gallery Oxford Brookes University, and to consider your own experiences of urban environments as you explore.

Follow posts weekly throughout the exhibition here on MAO Studio and also on our Instagram feed.

With thanks to the Adapt Transform co-curators: Alan Edgington, Antony Mikallou, Dominika Jankowska, Hamideh Rimaz, Helen Frankland,  Ignacia Heredia Contreras, Jason Wong, Karen Herring, Katya Mora, Lauren Waller, Lucy Jacobs, Neil Rendell, Roland Gallivo, Shamim Rehman, and Stu Allsopp with guests architect Wongani Mwanza (Transition by Design) and Georgia Watson, Professor of Urban Design at Oxford Brookes University.

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