Autonomous Forest is a project situated at the intersection of legal design, technology, and artistic practice, seeking to shift the forest from a resource to be owned toward an entity capable of autonomous, community-driven governance. The collective acquired two forest plots near Beelitz, Germany, and reorganized them legally as a Verein (association) and technically as a DAO (decentralized autonomous organization), transforming the land into a co-managed system shared between local communities and the ecosystem itself. The forest is divided into grids of approximately 9.54 × 12.38 meters, each corresponding to a specific NFT that links physical land directly to a digital token. Staked NFTs cannot be resold but instead confer governance rights and membership detached from speculative markets, ensuring transparent and durable decision-making processes while fostering long-term responsibility for forest stewardship. The project confronts the legacy of German forestry, long shaped by monoculture practices driven by economic efficiency. Autonomous Forest challenges this paradigm and proposes a “post-ownership” model that includes ecological cycles, local communities, and nonhuman actors. Participants are integrated not as passive viewers but as active contributors to the forest’s legal, technical, and ecological processes. Through this layered entanglement of nature, blockchain systems, and institutional reengineering, the project operates as a speculative model for rethinking ownership and environmental governance in the 21st century.