Dutch artist Thijs Biersteker collaborated with scientist Stefano Mancuso to create this installation at the Fondation Cartier that shows the real-time impact of climate change on nature in Paris.
Biersteker creates interactive installations about environmental and social issues.
His project with Mancuso is titled Symbiosia and seeks to promote awareness of the impact of climate change by providing visitors with a visual representation of its affect on local trees.

"I believe that the symbiotic and communicative relationships in nature, explored in Symbiosia, are key in preparing humanity to understand the value of a harmonious ecosystem," Biersteker explained.
"This is needed for a future that is a balance between technology, humanity and nature."
Symbiosia is located in the garden of the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain in the French capital's 14th arrondissement, and comprises a pair of digital displays connected to two of the garden's trees.
Mancuso ? the scientist behind the International Laboratory of Plant Neurobiology in Florence ? helped to develop a calculative data-driven system that estimates the real-time impact of climate change on nature in the city.
Photo by Thijs Biersteker
The display enables visitors to observe how factors such as daily traffic and droughts caused by increasing summer temperatures affect the growth of the trees.
The data is presented as a pattern of tree rings, with a new ring generated every second rather t...