Comprehension
Matters we recognize, but often don’t know how they work
Water
The supply cycle of trees
Water is one of the most important components for the supply of an organism, regardless of whether it is an animal, a human being, or a plant. What role does the water play for the trees?
Why are the trees white?
A project in April 2021
The whitening of tree trunks is an ancient tradition. We used this knowledge in our project to simultaneously protect the tree and create a visual change in the space to attract fresh attention. Why?
Transpiration
Leaves emit moisture
The tree maintains its supply cycle via tiny apertures in the leaves called stomata, which open and close as required.
Trees die slowly
Trees are often valued for their production of oxygen and absorption of carbon dioxide.
But that is only part of the story.
The carbon cycle
Global circular systems in context
Various circulatory systems in our environment, the exchange information. They constantly react to one another in order to return to equilibrium.
What happens when a cycle is modified in the long term?
The tree
Trees are part of our daily life, we see them averywhere.
Do they influence our city life?
The Ginkgo
A tree in the streets of Charlottenburg
Is the Ginkgo is medicinal plant that existed during the Ice Age, a temple tree with edible fruit seeds, or a tree that drops for European noses foul-smelling fruit and pollutes sidewalks and cars in the fall?
Nature out of balance
Human impact on nature
If you change one part of a system, it changes all. Examples that drastically change the equilibrium of our planet’s systems.