Aktion Baum: /imagine Bavarian Forest

1/3 of Germany's area (11.4 M hectares) is covered by forests. The official annual forest condition survey by the federal government shows that damages continue to be at a very high level. According to the Forest Condition Report 2022, only 1/5 of all trees in the country are healthy. Huge areas are dying before our eyes, 400,000 hectares – 3% of Germany's total forest area - in the past 4 years alone.

Areas of forests that were once green and full of life are in danger of becoming barren - quite a dystopian perspective on regions that Germans know from their immediate surroundings.

We created an AI-generated photo series, depicting perspectives of forest areas in different parts of the country - such as the Black Forest or the Bavarian Forest, forests in the Sauerland and Harz, the Taunus Forest, and the Strausberger Forest near Berlin - and showing how the AI imagines those areas will look like soon if no one does something about it, like for example planting more and healthier trees.