Tree Trip / Helsinki - Mänttä - Hyytiälä, Sept. 2025

Foto : Agnes Meyer-Brandis

Tree Trip / Helsinki, 26.Sept.2025 

 A participative workshop with artist Agnes Meyer-Brandis, scientists Ditte Taipale, Timo Vesala, Toni Tykkä, curator Ulla Taipale and the audience.

Experiment part 1 - How to Become a Tree for Another Tree

- Introduction into the "One Tree ID" project by Agnes Meyer-Brandis

- Setting up a measuring system to measure the clouds or VOC emissions of an urban birch tree, located at Kotkankatu 2, in front of Alppila Church in Helsinki

- A gas sample taking from the leaves, tree stem and roots, for later analysis.

Experiment part 2 - Becoming an Invisible Forest

by applying various One Tree ID perfumes from different trees

Experiment part 3 - Forest Bathing for Stressed Urban Tress

-30min after the Experiment part 2, we continue by taking samples from the leaves, tree stem and roots for later analysis to detect / proof possible effects caused by the Forest Bathing Experiment 

Experiment part 4 - Data to tree specific perfume

Data analysis by Toni Tykkä and  subsequent perfume synthesis in collboration with Marc vom Ende, senior perfumer.

Experiment part 5 - Smelling 

Smelling the effect - a stressed urban tree versus a tree bathing in a synthesized human forest.

Credits: Realized in collaboration with: Toni Tykka, Finnish Meteorological Institute at the University Helsinki, FI, Marc vom Ende, Senior perfumer, Berlin, Serlachius Museums, Mänttä, FI , in the scope of the solo exhibition "As Trees Go By" oif Agnes Meyer-Brandis" at the Serlachius Museum Mänttä, FI, 12th April 2025 - 19th April 2026. The exhibition and the workshop are curated by Ulla Taipale.

Fotos: Suzanna , drone photographs: Agnes Meyer-Brandis