Lindsey Wikstrom’s recent book, Designing the Forest and Other Mass Timber Futures (Routledge, 2023), is a vast and multidisciplinary research on mass timber and its environmental, social, and economic implications. The book is not a simple investigation of a new construction technique, but a narrative of the complex system of relationships between nature, humans, and technology: an ecology where the forest and the city, the nonhuman and the human benefit from each other through a new political dialectic.

The diagram is "a first pass at a living drawing of the lineage of mass timber represented as a tree with roots in forestry practice, a canopy of mass timber milestones, and nutrients (or books) in the air, water, and soil."