Our Common Home
OUR COMMON HOME is a neighbourhood–scale public art exhibition about climate action. It interacts with the audience in different ways as metaphors for the impact we have on our planet.
A different interactive experience is projected onto each building facade allowing groups of up to 20 people to become part of the story: climate change, the direct impact this has on the planet, its fauna and flora, and what are the individual and collective things we can do to help stop it, prevent it, or even hopefully reverse it.
An interactive journey on 4 buildings:
CREATURES is a metaphor for general human interference and influence on the animal kingdom. By pointing the flashlight of their mobile phones towards the building, participants are able to project animals onto the facade, as if they are themselves giving them life.
PRODUCTS is about consumerism and the amount of waste we generate. The system will track people’s faces and detect if their mouths are open or closed. The interaction happens as participants open their mouths: the more they keep it open, the more trash will “come out”, generating piles of wasteful products that will accumulate on the facade.
ICEBERGS is about the impact we have on the world climate and rising temperatures. It is about how greenhouse gases, particularly means of transportation running on fossil fuels, contaminate the atmosphere and ultimately lead to the melting of the polar ice caps.
TELESCOPES addresses our lack of interest in the climate change discussion and our failure to prioritize the topic over others. As people get near the facade, they will see different floating news headlines. These news clips will be sourced from international and local outlets and will include political, ecological, and climate change issues, but also celebrity and tabloid news and other similarly mundane publications.
