Urban trees are considered to be essential and integral to urban environments, to contribute to the biodiversity of cities as well as to the well-being of their inhabitants. In addition, urban trees may also serve as living memorials, helping to remember major social eruptions and to cement continuity with the past, but also as social disruptors that can induce clashes between different ideals of culture. In this paper, we focus on a specific case, a Ginkgo biloba specimen growing at Suda Street in the centre of Tallinn, in order to demonstrate how the shifts in the meaning attributed to a non-human organism can shape cultural memory and underlie social confrontations. Integrating an ecosemiotic approach to human-non-human interactions with Juri Lotman’s approach to cultural memory and cultural space, we point out how non-human organisms can delimit cultural space at different times and how the ideal of culture is shaped by different ways of incorporating or other species in the human cultural ideal or excluding them from it.

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城市树木是社会触发因素：爱沙尼亚塔林的银杏标本

人们认为城市树木对于城市环境必不可少且不可或缺，有助于城市的生物多样性及其居民的福祉。此外，城市树木还可以充当纪念馆，帮助记住主要的社会爆发事件并巩固与过去的连续性，还可以作为社会破坏者，在不同文化理念之间引发冲突。在本文中，我们将重点放在一个特定的案例上，即在塔林中心的Suda街上生长的一个银杏标本，以证明非人类有机物的意义变化如何塑造文化记忆并成为社会对抗的基础。 。将生态符号学方法用于人与人之间的互动与朱里·洛特曼（Juri Lotman）的文化记忆和文化空间方法相结合，