HEXAGON Community — Land Art Space

The conference ends.
The land does not.

Delegations meet for a fortnight and disperse. The ground they came to talk about stays where it is, and so do the organisations who put something in it. This is the public record of who holds what: every cell numbered, located, and reported on once a year for ten years.

A membership you can walk onto

An organisation with a tree standing on the HEXAGON is already a member. Nothing else is asked of it. The contribution is located — a numbered cell on three fenced hectares at Erdene sum, reported on by itself — so membership rests on something that can be visited, measured and argued with, rather than on a pledge.

Between the meetings

Most of what is agreed at a conference is lost in the months after it, not during it. Parties who never got past a handshake have nowhere to go once the halls empty. This stays open the rest of the year.

On the record, not on a list

A membership is a position on the ground, published: the organisation, the cell it holds, the year it started. Anyone can check it against the model and against the annual assessment. There is nothing here that has to be taken on trust.

Measured, not asserted

What each cell has done is read by an outside assessor against an unrestored control site, not by us. Members are invited to hold each other to the same standard, and to publish what did not work.

Bigger than any one cell

One organisation restores a hectare. Forty organisations comparing methods, co-funding trials and verifying each other's results move faster than forty working alone. That is the whole of the idea.