How to prepare your collaboration:
There are 3 ways to participate in the great 2025 collective creation that will showcase the diversity of actions in defense of nature and the common good around the world.
When you start, which ever option you choose, please let us know on the link below. This helps us to stay in touch and invite you to virtual events.
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Individual collaboration
To participate as an individual, we invite you to create a piece – fauna, flora, or fungus – on recycled fabric. This is the continuation of the original Forest of Hope conceived in 2021. If you join us with this option, you will be part of a growing movement. There are already more than 700 textile trees created by embroiderers and sewers around the world. We aspire to reach more than 2,000… Will you join us?
The size of your creation is important in order to install all the interconnected pieces, so please review the embroidery guide in detail.
The guide for individual collaborations:
Embroidery guide
Collective collaborations
We devised two ways to participate collectively, because we want the creation to highlight the great value of acting in community, collectively, interconnected like natural forests. The truth is we are only going to be able to address the ecosocial crisis if we join together across our diverse territories.
What kind of groups can join in?
1. What we are already doing
We invite you to contribute collective creations with reused textiles that show us what has already been done by human collectives in their territories around the world in order to defend nature and build the future they want.
Click the link below to read the guide for making your own collective piece representing what your collective is already doing.
Collective embroidery guide 1: what we are already doing
2. Let’s imagine a world where everyone does everything possible to regenerate life
Imagination is a wonderful thing: all of humanity’s great achievements begin by imagining something and then working towards that goal. Therefore if we want to reach the desired future, we need to exercise all our imaginative capacities.
For this kind of creation we invite both existing collectives and newly formed groups to join us in imagining possible worlds if we did everything we could, as scientists advise us, to stop environmental damage and take care of the planet. These visions from many perspectives and communities around the world, embodied in reused fabric, will become part of the Ecosystem of Hope, where humans become a key species for regeneration instead of a species of destruction.
Collective embroidery guide 2: the world we imagine
What are these collective creations for?
The intention of these collective pieces is to recover, recognize, and visualize for ourselves (the citizens) the great value and importance of collectives in our neighbourhoods and communities in defending nature and the common good in each territory, and hopefully to inspire more neighbours to join in.
We also seek to help awaken, liberate, and detonate the collective imagination about what the future could be like if we all changed course together. This exercise is especially important because very few people are doing it.
We have been preparing the collective embroidery guides with these intentions in mind. We hope they are very useful to you.
In case you have any questions, we have also prepared a frequently asked questions page.
FAQ 2025
What will be done with these creations?
These textile pieces will be part of the Forest of Hope that we will install in Belém, Brazil, during the days of COP30. In this way, we will show, on the one hand, how we, the common people, are already taking collective action to do what is required and, on the other hand, to create a broad and multicultural canvas of what the future could be like based on a construction through equity, affection, care, and WITH nature.
We have created guides to help your collective work on either of these two projects.