Sobre Earth Speakr
Earth Speakr is an artwork. Through an app active from 2020 to 2022, the artwork invited kids to speak up for the planet and adults to listen up to what they had to say. Now all the kids’ messages can be heard here on the Earth Speakr Map.
Today, the Earth Speakr website hosts and celebrates over 10,000 messages recorded by kids about the future of our planet – messages that are brilliant, funny, and heartbreakingly honest. It is a testament to the importance of listening to the next generations, as we adults make crucial decisions that inevitably affect their future.
As an artwork Earth Speakr couldn’t have been made alone. It emerged rather through the collective, creative effort of kids around the world. I believe that such accessible, borderless spaces, driven by creative expression, can bring us together to connect and share perspectives, while celebrating our differences. It is my hope that Earth Speakr has empowered kids across the EU and beyond by showing them that they too are able to share their worries and opinions with those who need to hear them.
- Olafur Eliasson, Earth Day, 2022
Earth Speakr was started by artist Olafur Eliasson and took shape with the input and ideas of its community. Earth Speakr speaks your language – it also speaks the 24 official languages of the European Union and can be accessed throughout the world.
Kids used the Earth Speakr app to record their ideas about the wellbeing of our planet. Adults are invited to participate by listening to the messages, sharing these with others, and amplifying the powerful messages kids have made.
Over half a million people around the world have downloaded the Earth Speakr app. More than 70 languages have been spoken within the app, from more than 120 countries around the world. The messages have been listened to by the general public over 3 million times through the Earth Speakr app and website.
¿Quién está detrás de Earth Speakr?
Earth Speakr ha sido creado por Olafur Eliasson junto con su estudio, con los menores y jóvenes, sus socios creativos y un grupo de investigadores y expertos. Está financiado por el Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores alemán en el marco de la Presidencia Alemana del Consejo de la Unión Europea 2020 y realizado en colaboración con el Goethe-Institut.
Sobre Olafur Eliasson
El artista danes-islandés Olafur Eliasson (1967) trabaja con esculturas, pinturas, fotografías, cine, instalaciones y medios digitales. El motor de su arte es su interés por la percepción, el movimiento, la experiencia corporal, la conciencia de uno mismo y el sentido de comunidad. No se limita al ámbito de los museos y las galerías, sino que interactúa con el público a través de proyectos arquitectónicos, intervenciones en espacios cívicos, educación artística, desarrollo de políticas y acciones climáticas. Desde mediados de los 90, Eliasson ha llevado a cabo numerosas exposiciones y proyectos en todo el mundo. En 2019, fue nombrado Embajador de Buena Voluntad para la acción climática y los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible del PNUD (Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo).
Ubicado en Berlín, el Studio Olafur Eliasson cuenta con un gran equipo de artesanos, arquitectos, archivistas, investigadores, administradores, cocineros, historiadores de arte y técnicos especialistas.
