Lumina Foresta

¿Did you know that 500 trees are needed to offset the footprint of each European citizen? Climate change and the need to offset the negative impact we have on the environment are among the world’s main global challenges. An average EU citizen produces 12,000 kg of CO2 every year, an adult tree absorbs 22 kg of CO2 and one acre of vegetation can absorb 2,500 kg of CO2 in that period. At the current pace, every EU citizen would have to plant 4.8 acres of trees to compensate for their carbon footprint. Lumina Foresta is an exhibition that explores the intersection between nature and the digital world or the ecological and the artificial. It hails from the cries of today’s environmental crises, evident as quantified data of carbon emissions in our urban areas, which also affect our natural habitats and evoke a sense of responsibility from the citizens who interact with the installation. Attendees were able to interact with the Lumina Foresta installation, which plays with its carbon footprint and the power of plants to transform it into oxygen. At the end of the experience, citizens receive seed bombs as gifts to carry out actions to re-naturalize their urban environment. Lumina Foresta is part of the project Public Play Space, co financed by the Creative Europe Program of the European Commission and the project Co-mida supported by the programme ‘La Ciutat Proactiva’ of BIT Habitat Barcelona.