British designer Es Devlin has filled the courtyard of Somerset House with trees for her Forest for Change installation as part of this year's London Design Biennale.
The London Design Biennale opened today after the cancellation of the 2020 edition due to coronavirus. It is one of the first events to physically take place in London since the start of the pandemic.
Devlin's Forest for Change sits at the centre of the biennale venue Somerset House. Created in collaboration with landscape designer Philip Jaffa and Scotscape, the installation comprises 400 trees that fill Somerset House's historic courtyard.
Pillars showing the 17 global goals sit at the centre of the installation
Devlin, who is this year's London Design Biennale artistic director, described Forest for Change as "a place of transformation." "My background is a little bit in drama and literature, and those forests in Shakespeare ? you go in as one thing, and you come out as another," she said.
Installation aims to raise awareness of  UN's Global Goals
The installation is also known as The Global Goals Pavilion and is presented in partnership with Project Everyone, a not-for-profit agency founded by Richard Curtis, Kate Garvey and Gail Gallie that aims to further awareness of the United Nations' initiative Global Goals.
Officially known as the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), the Global Goals are 17 objectives that aim to provide a better world by 2030.
Somerset House's courtyard h...