Project Global is part of a three-year investigation on global supply chains in the Core Network Corridors established by the European Union. The research project describes and documents the logistics environment of the North Sea-Baltic Corridor through the lens of milk and timber, from the small scale of the object to the scale of the corridor. The exercise explores the spaces, trajectories, materials, and actors that take part in the supply chain to create a comparative and synthetic study of both industries. Focusing on Estonia, the research considers the involvement of local, national, and extranational factors in the timber and milk supply chains. The investigation aims to project potential future developments and their architectural implications to define relevant spatial and design questions.

The project is based on an understanding of the spatial, natural, or technologically modified properties of milk and timber; their cultivation, extraction, processing, distribution, and consumption. The logistic environments and instruments involved in these processes are studied for their individual characteristics and co-dependent organizations mediating between economic and ecological sustainability, and between the Estonian and trans-European contexts through the North Sea Baltic Corridor.

Moving Milk and Timber

Representative diagrams, drawings, and maps showcase the interdependent spatial relations between living organisms, human consumption needs, constructed objects, product values, logistic spaces, and infrastructure that together constitute supply chain networks. This dossier documents the collective research on both industries including specific products. The more in-depth case studies are structured within a framework that allows for comparability between their key elements.