Modern Noah's ark — 8 art projects devoted to the problems of weather and climate

The rain of ashes, prorastaniya and modern Noah's ark: 8 art projects devoted to the problems of weather and climate whether to respond to climate change by war or better with them to accept? As will appear, the plants of the future, if we want to make them resistant to new extreme weather conditions? To these and other questions were answered by the artists — participants of the exhibition Strange Weather at Dublin Sciencegallery. 8 the most interesting objects from the possibility to touch the clouds to read for meteodependent. Suzanne Soares. "Prorastaniya"



Will look like new plants, if we try to make them resistant to extreme weather conditions? After reviewing the studies at the University of Sheffield in phytomorphology, Portuguese painter Suzanne Soares has developed its own computer sketches of the plants of the future. It gave them the ability to actively reflect the sun, stock up on water for a long time and faster to conduct air to the roots.

Will look like new plants, if we try to make them resistant to extreme weather conditions? After reviewing the studies at the University of Sheffield in phytomorphology, Portuguese painter Suzanne Soares has developed its own computer sketches of the plants of the future. It gave them the ability to actively reflect the sun, stock up on water for a long time and faster to conduct air to the roots.

Everyware. Pink Cloud


Who has not dreamed in childhood to reach the sky and touch the clouds with your hands? Thanks to the interactive installations of the Korean artist group Everyware this fantasy finally becomes reality. Touch screen with pink clouds responds to every touch change the weather — as if on a breath of wind. As seen in the photographic documentation of past exhibitions, children prefer to wallow in the artificial sky with your head, not just as adults, slowly led him by the hand.

Lauren Thorson. Internet Poems About #Weather


Weather has long been recognized as the most win-win theme of communication, and its status she managed not to lose even on the Internet. American designer Lauren Thorson have developed an algorithm, which gathered for a hashtag using a lot of records of meteorological character of the popular network Tumblr. Later, she sorted them and made from selected poetry collection. Arguments about the rain, dissatisfaction with the cloudless sky and observing the transience of autumn — in short, a must-read for all weather-sensitive.

Despite the fact that mankind has made tremendous technological progress in various areas of life, for death has not yet managed to come up with anything spectacular. London team Studio PSK, specializing in speculative design, tried to develop a system of turning ashes into the rain. According to their idea, the family agreed on this outcome would receive in the crematorium a special aluminum vessel with the ashes of his relative and attached to the vessel with a balloon. During the filling of the balloon gas, the vessel will be able to climb into the sky. Reaching the troposphere, pressure vessel burst, and his ashes will be scattered in the clouds and rain.

Balls-suits, designed to save managers when life on earth will be already impossible, featured in the famous mocumentary "The Yes Men Fix the World". These spherical apparel have the system of Autonomous power generation, temperature control, recycling waste and, more importantly, tracking the survivors of the native employees of the Corporation. Such armor should not be afraid of no drought, no hurricanes, no increase in water level in the sea — in one word, the masters of speculative art was able to produce modern high-tech analogue of Noah's ark.

Whether people respond to the nature of war over climate change caused by human actions? Around this question is constructed documentary Swedish Duo Bigert & Bergström. The artists analyze when and how the meteorologists began to cooperate with the army, find out the current state of geoengineering and secretly trying to test your own war machine to prevent a tornado.

People have always loved to arrange seasonal holidays, but due to climatic changes they may have to make some adjustments in their plans. For example, once in Holland there was a traditional ice-skating race of the eleven cities, but the last time it was able to hold in 1997 — since then, these events were not strong enough ice. Australian artists Tag brain and Jodi Newcombe decided to collect an archive of such festivals, which go from the modern world for climatic reasons, and also to invent new seasonal events, adapted to the changed temperature reality.

Source: theoryandpractice.ru