Trading Boundaries taps into the psychology of ownership and possession to incentivise people to take responsibility for forestry in Scotland, where the practice is largely commercial and owned by an elite wealthy few. The project allows community members and investors to purchase plots of land in the form of non-fungible tokens and collectively own the forest. Guardians (token owners) can trade, manage, and develop their tokens by planting and caring for tree saplings. The strategy aims to financially and psychologically incentivise people to create a rich and obsessively maintained forest-scape.

The architectural response to the tokenised forest takes the form of a new age investor’s centre. Here seeds are grown into saplings where they are then digitally analysed and sold alongside parcels of land as tokenised assets. These assets can be cared for, grown, and even built upon whereby the monetary value of the plot is strongly correlated to the health of the trees and vegetation. The scheme targets various users and encourages fractional ownership of tokens to create collaborative synergies between investors and foresters.