Project 10,000+ was born out of a clash of harmony and dissonance. The endless harmony of nature and the acute dissonance of the way we perceive and manage the biodiversity crisis in our society. 

Biodiversity is often treated just as a wish list of humanity, something that is desirable but not vital, and this is a serious problem. Our project focuses on endangered and threatened trees and attempts to generate more awareness of the complex and often misunderstood relation between biodiversity loss and the climate crisis. Step by step we are building a large-scale art installation with the involvement of young people, like us, and of course everyone else who wants to be involved to collaborate in creating the audio element of it by giving their voices, literally and metaphorically, to the 17,500 tree species that are under threat. The recordings are being collected, overlapped and compiled to create a tapestry of all the voices. This output of the project is artistic in nature, however, each element of the installation, audio and visual, and the whole process of its creation, is connected to existing scientific work making this project also about building step by step our skills and knowledge and shifting our relationship to the science so that our actions and our future choices are navigated by our awareness and understanding of it.

Everyone is very much invited to be part of this project. Have a look at how precisely you can collaborate and stay connected. This project will progress step by step and there will be always something new happening. In April there is the Biodiversity summit in Kunming, COP15. Let’s see how far we can get together until then.

And of course, thank you very much to everyone who already gave their voices for an endangered tree or shared their creative work or their scientific expertise and everyone who is involved or supporting our project in any other way.

Anaid and Daniel Wunderer