O projektu 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.
Kdo stoji za projektom Earth Speakr?
Projekt Earth Speakr ustvarjajo Olafur Eliasson s svojim studiem, otroci, kreativni partnerji ter skupina raziskovalcev in strokovnjakov. Financira ga Zvezno ministrstvo za zunanje zadeve ob nemškem predsedovanju Svetu Evropske unije leta 2020 in izvaja se v sodelovanju z Goethe-Institutom.
O Olafurju Eliassonu
Dansko-islandski umetnik Olafur Eliasson (roj. 1967) je dejaven v kiparstvu, slikarstvu, fotografiji, filmu, instalacijah in digitalnih medijih. Njegovo umetnost žene njegovo zanimanje za dojemanje, gibanje, telesne izkušnje ter občutenja sebe in skupnosti. Ne omejuje se na muzeje in galerije; njegovo ustvarjanje vključuje javnost z arhitekturnimi projekti, intervencijami v javnem prostoru, umetniškim izobraževanjem, oblikovanjem politik in s podnebnimi ukrepi. Od sredine 90. let je Eliasson izvedel številne velike razstave in projekte širom sveta. Leta 2019 so ga imenovali za ambasadorja dobre volje UNDP za podnebje in trajnostne razvojne cilje.
Studio Olafur Eliasson s sedežem v Berlinu sestavlja številčna ekipa obrtnikov, arhitektov, arhivarjev, raziskovalcev, administratorjev, kuharjev, umetniških zgodovinarjev in specializiranih tehnikov.
