Forest for Change The Global Goals Pavilion at London Design Biennale. Photo by Ed Reeve.
London’s Design Biennial opened this week with a central question posed by its artistic director, the award-winning artist and stage designer Es Devlin: How can design provide solutions to the greatest crises facing the world today?
A centerpiece of the exhibition is a spectacular forest of 400 trees planted in the magnificent courtyard of Somerset House. Designed by Devlin for the biennial’s Global Goals pavilion, there’s a clearing at the center of this “Forest for Change,” as it’s called, with an installation driving awareness of the United Nations’ goals for sustainable development.