Angelo Renna and Oleksandr Nenenko have proposed covering planet Earth with huge genetically engineered trees, one of 15 finalist projects for Dezeen's Redesign the World competition powered by Twinmotion.
Titled The Word for World is Forest, Renna and Nenenko's proposal envisions "superorganism" trees that absorb 50 per cent more carbon dioxide than typical trees.
The trees would also use less water and are designed to grow fast and survive in turbulent weather conditions.
In Renna and Nenenko's imagined future, humans live in symbiosis with non-human species and are the "guardians of the forest". Plants are no longer considered "ornamental" but are vital to human survival and culture.
The concept is inspired by Ursula K Le Guin's 1972 novella of the same name, which is about a fictional planet that is completely covered by forest. Read more about the proposal below.

The Word for World is Forest

Angelo Renna and Oleksandr Nenenko, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Finalist
"In 1972, Ursula K Le Guin published the book The Word for World is Forest, a science-fiction novella in which a fictional planet is completely covered by a forest and inhabited by non-violent people capable of lucid dreaming.
"As in Le Guin's story, in our proposal for the Redesign the World competition, the forest and world are two meanings and one.
"We imagine the earth completely covered by a forest made with special genetically engineered trees ? superorganisms...