Feeling Climate Crisis
year: 2020, 21, 22
*ongoing project
thesis project at MIT Media Lab
tags: ecology, data visualization, kinetic sculpture, data art, eco-art, installation art
This project visualizes the ongoing climate crisis through the means of kinetic sculptures made from found natural objects juxtaposed with electromechanical elements.
Together they create movement patterns that express climate data. The project allows viewers to ‘feel climate data’.
Sculpture 14
This project consists of 9-12 kinetic sculptures, each mapped to a specific data parameter. These data parameters include surface temperature change, per capita CO2 emissions, global tree cover loss, etc.
Each parameter has historical data starting from 1990 to 2020. Data is referenced from a paper titled World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency
Sculpture 13
Sculpture 12
Sculpture 05
Sculpture 06
Exhibitions
September 2022 (upcoming), As part of the upcoming group exhibition 1.5° CELSIUS. Science Gallery at Michigan State University, Detroit, MI, United States
December 2021, (Sculpture 06, 13, 14). StoveFactory art gallery, Charlestown, MA, United States.
October 2021, (Sculpture 12, 14.2, 16). StoveFactory art gallery, Charlestown, MA, United States.
September 2021, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, United States.
Process
Observations in nature
movement and mechanism explorations (sketches, cad models)
modeling components in CAD (Fusion360)
3D printing, assembly, testing, programming
Videos
Early Explorations
Sculpture 01
Sculpture 02
Sculpture 03
Sculpture 04
Sculpture 05
Sculpture 06
Sculpture 07
Sculpture 08
Sculpture 09
Sculpture 09
Sculpture 10
Sculpture 11
Sculpture 12
Sculpture 13
Sculpture 14
Sculpture 15
tools and techniques
3D printing(FDM, Resin), CAD modeling (Fusion 360), grbl, Arduino, PCB design (easyEDA), SMT PCB assembly, Adobe Illustrator, openFrameworks, workshop tools, sketching, observation of nature, nature walk