COP15/ Global UN Climate Conferance
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Recently, through Zago I was given an amazing opportunity to work with the COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conferance that ran earlier in December. The event was the largest international political conference held in Denmark, with 192 countries represented, and over 15,000 participants engaged in an open dialogue about the global climate crisis. The conference focused on the current misuse of global fossil fuels, with the goal to develop and implement an immediate course of action to redirect climate change. As a designer, I found it engaging to become part of the dialogue in relaying this message of urgency and hope for the future of our planet.
My particular role for the conference was to create an animation to be played in the backdrop of panel discussions. I won’t give away the metaphor, to spell it all out and make it easy to follow. The active engaging of the audience to solve the message of the animation is directly related to the theme of the conference itself. Below you’ll find selected stills from the animation. If you’d like to get a better idea, watch a 60 second version of the video here.
Before the panel discussions, audience members were given a complementary flip book of the animation along with an applied message from COP15, to be a personal reminding memento of our global situation. I’m not completely convinced about the size of the book. I was hopeful that it would have been a little larger, to allow for an easier grip to make the flipping action more fluid. Also, the production quality of the book is really sub par, as most of the books we received from the event had glue damaged creases on the spine. But overall, I’m happy with the final format, and of course the cause is what makes it all worthwhile.
Also, here are some images from the animation during the talk. I apologize for the horrifying image quality. My face is still gnarled from the initial shock. Irregardless, I can’t stress enough the amount of importance placed on designers and humanity to do whatever they can for the well being of the planet. There is nothing we can’t do, and in light of the current global crisis, the solutions need to begin happening very quickly. We’ve done the impossible before; humanity developed language, agriculture, the printing press, the telegraph, and the internet (all of which would have been deemed impossible by our fore fathers). We have journeyed to the moon and have seen our galaxy from the outside looking in. If done correctly and together, overcoming the global climate crisis will be just one more check mark for the history books. God bless.
