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Visioning

Greenhouse Britain

Vision of future development in London

Newton Harrison and Helen Mayer Harrison from San Diego have been collaborating artists since the 1970s. In 2008 with a grant from the UK Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and with scientific collaborators from the Tyndall Centre and Sheffield University, the Harrisons presented ‘Greenhouse Britain‘. The work is a visioning exercise for a future Britain transformed by rising sea levels, where the population responds in positive ways to transform the country into a carbon sink and build vertical settlements that are sensitive to cultural and environmental conditions. The exhibition is also available to view online.

a map of a dream of the future

In the exhibition of ‘A Map of a Dream of the Future‘, 400 native Tasmanian plants map out the dreams and attitudes of young Tasmanians about climate change in a three dimensional hanging garden as graph. The exhibition formed part of a broader education and visualization project led by artist, Nick Low in collaboration with programmer Richard Procter. Surveys administered with education kits to secondary school children positioned each child along three axes: Libertarian-Authoritarian, Technology-Nature and Libertarian-Authoritarian. In addition to the exhibition, the data was also used to generate virtual cities across Tasmania based on what each student would like to see in response to climate change.

The Weather Report

The Weather Report: Art and Climate Change, was an exhibition held in 2007 at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. The exhibition was a collaboration with EcoArts and brought together artists and scientists to engage the community in a dialogue around a future influenced by climate change.