A number of captivating features have been added to an area of suburban nothingness that surrounds a future gallery building site. These features help to reflect back on the past, while at the same time serving as a bridge to the future. From the outset the scale of the place evokes a kind of forum, a place which once served as a hub of community life – with courts held here, as well as elections, marketplaces, parades and public debates. But this location in the heart of Moravian Ostrava pulsed with a very different kind of life – namely with animals destined for the slaughterhouses. Which meant that rather than hosting public debates and public officials, this specific area was once populated with butchers from the meat trade. This simple concept explores both of these aspects. Form, in this case represented as space, is loosely accented via geometrical incorporation into simple sub-spaces – a creative “transformation” of an empty space. The geometric shapes are structured with the aid of some gentle modelling, providing a contrast with the surrounding environment. The interior features trees, which, given the forum’s future prospects as a social hub, will serve as an added attraction for visitors to the sunny piazzetta. Residents will soon be able to make use of the created spaces – “pockets of greenery” will emerge, in which visitors will be able to spend their time. Within the wider framework of the Landscape Festival Ostrava, this place will serve as a starting point, an initial spatial intervention, which can subsequently be further developed by the addition of similar features. As to how universal this site will be, and how it will ultimately lend itself to the needs of the planned adjacent gallery, only time will tell. Nonetheless, the past too has not been forgotten here – the bloody waste from the former slaughterhouses that once flowed along the earth here has been returned in abstract form via the addition of red poppies, which “bleed”” through the selected space. Red is not just the colour of blood, but has also been selected for its striking ability to visually highlight the dynamism of the overall intervention. It features on the poles anchoring the trees, and also on the items found in the small “pocket park”. But just as blood gradually dries up and fades, poppies also are destined to flower and then wither. What will then remain are the trees that form the backbone of the Forum Arborum.