Projects by the students of the
Bachelor Major in Art, Major in Design,
and the Master in Eco-Social Design

facing climate change

Six audio tracks accompanied by moving images
Duration: 4’41’

Shown as a projected installation
in a 2,10 x 2,80 x 3,27 m room

 

The project addresses the issue of climate anxiety, a form of fear that affects many young, who are afraid and worried about their future due to the increasingly rapid progression of global warming.

Besides the physical consequences, we are mainly confronted with information about climate change and its consequences due to our daily contact with social media or media in general. Although the problem is widely known, not everyone is aware of its effects and consequences. Climate anxiety, however, is not an official psychological diagnosis or disease. It is the general fear of our future that the continuing climate change could threaten one’s own life. This fear is a sign of a threat but at the same time a motivator for acting against global warming.

The project consists of a sequence of interviews with young people and natural disasters that have hit South Tyrol in the last years. The  revelations, fears and visions of the interviewed people are played as an audio track while the footage of the disasters is projected onto their portraits.