On Friday, we went to the Round Tower for the opening of the Skovene-i din lomme/Forests-in your pocket, the Forest Festival at Copenhagen’s Round Tower. Skovene-i din lomme is an exhibition focused on raising awareness about global forest ecology through beautiful forest images shot in Borneo, Poland, and Denmark, among other locations. It runs until March 10, 2013 with events and activities occurring every week the exhibition is open.
The exhibition is organized into 4 parts: What is a forest?; Why is the forest important?;Why are forests disappearing?; How can the forests be protected? Each organizational question is answered with a brief wall text and then further illustrated with a selection of photographs. The photographs show various forest landscapes from rubber plantations to old growth forest to rain forest to clear cut fields. Going through the exhibition one can learn that “90% of all terrestrial organisms live in the world’s forests,” or that the international forest definition as defined by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) requires an area of at least “0.5 hectares with at least 20 meters width,” before something can be called a forest. In the center of the stunning Round Tower exhibition hall, a visitor can sit down at a table next to real trees, installed as part of the exhibition, and write out their own definition of a forest on provided paper. Responses are placed on a wall creating a space where both the official and the personal ideas of what a forest is and can be exist together.
Here are some images from the opening:
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