Artists and designers are turning away from working on projects that damage the planet and instead exploring ways to benefit it, according to Es Devlin.
"I've observed in my colleagues that there is already a burgeoning sense that this is the way we want to practice," she told Dezeen.
"I don't think we want the burden of having done harm on our conscience."
The artist and designer made the claim in a video interview last week as part of the Dezeen 15 digital festival.
Top: Es Devlin designed the Conference of the Trees at COP26. Above: it is being used for a series of talks
Devlin was speaking live from the COP26 climate conferencein Glasgow, where she has created an installation of 197 potted trees for the New York Times Climate Hub. The trees, which represent the 197 countries that have ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, will be permanently planted after the conference ends.
Devlin said that projects of this nature are becoming commonplace as creatives assess the damage their profession is doing to the environment.
"As Hans Ulrich Obrist has been finding in a lot of his conversations, quite a lot of artists and designers would rather make gardens at the moment to try and do no harm," she said, referring to the artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries.

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