My entry into the 2021WWF art competition.
The WWF brief was to use your artistic discipline to visualise how we can best live in harmony with our planet and what our rebuilt future could look like. Taking inspiration from the David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet film.
My submission was inspired by the Dymaxion map by Buckminster Fuller in 1943. Each of the globe’s 20 face would illustrate how humans can best live in harmony with nature and therefore avoid the climate crisis.
There could be 2 versions of the map.
• The main poster (size can vary from A0 to a billboard)
• Cut-out-and-make model (to sell or give away)
The artwork highlights changes that can make on an individual basis and issues that people can lobby governments to make changes at a national and international levels. The design of the model version would need to have the text and images in different directions to the poster, so that it works once it has been cut out and made 3D.
Dymaxion map faces details
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Map face 1: South Pacific Ocean
Communities prospering & diversity is being embraced (Image details: Collage of adults and kids handprints in a heart shape)
Map face 2: North Pacific Ocean
Ecocide laws being enforced worldwide (Image details: Human skull surrounded by flowers and leaves)
Map face 3: Canada & Russia
Carbon sinks have stabilized global temperatures (Image details: Blue watercolour texture with a vortex in the background to illustrate carbon being pulled down into the oceans)
Map face 4: Indonesia, Philippines
Restoration of Holocene (Image details: Bolts of lightning against the night sky)
Map face 5: Australia and New Zealand
Coral reefs are florshing (Image details: Octopus, tropical fish and coral from The Great Barrier Reef, and tropical coloured watercolour texture)
Map face 6: Indian Ocean and Antarctica
Protection of ‘blue carbon’ & global marine reserves (Image details: Map and Orca’s tail from map face 15 would appear on this face)
Map face 7: Antarctica
Sea levels are stable & ice caps are no longer melting (Image details: Penguin drawing)
Map face 8: South Pacific Ocean
Underwater farms are thriving (Image details: Collage of fruit place underneath a blue water texture to illustrate growing under the water)
Map face 9: South America
Farming is sustainable (following Costa Rica’s example) (Image details: Adult hands holding a child’s hands, while the child is holding a sapling)
Map face 11: USA and Central America
Circular economy in place & one-planet-living ubiquitous (Image details: Map decorated with a cicular icon at various sizes) Find out more: https://www.bioregional.com/one-planet-living/ Find out more: https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/our-work/activities/climate-change
Map face 10: Canada and USA
Humans’ diets have moved to be mainly plant based (Image details: Collage of vegetable drawings)
Map face 12: Arctic circle
Methane remains locked in the permafrost (Image details: Photo of bubbles trapped in ice)
Map face 13: Russia
Global temperature ranges are steady (Image details: Section of a world map drawn in 1850 by Wilhelm Ebel to illustrate the range of temperatures across the earth’s surface. These temperatures will before the effects of climate change started, and what we need to aim to get back to. The original image held by the British Library).
Map face 14: south Asia
Global soil degradation halted (Image details: Aerial view of trees and rice fields in Indonesia)
Map face 15: Indian Ocean
Third of the world’s oceans are no fishing zones (Image details: Sea colour and texture colour & an Orca)
Map face 16: South Atlantic Ocean
Design thinking employed & cradle-to-cradle production (Image details: text and Cradle to cradle logo) Find out more about design thinking: https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/design-thinking-explained Find out more about cradle-to-cradle: https://mcdonough.com/cradle-to-cradle/
Map face 17: Brazil
Re-wilding & re-foresting taken place everywhere (Image details: Rainforest with a green basilisk lizard hiding amongst the leaves)
Map faces 18 & 19: Europe and Africa
100% use of renewable energy worldwide (Image details: Wind turbines, solar panels and hydropower as examples of renewable energy sources)
Map face 20: Africa
Education for all resulted in population reduction (Image details: Green coloured drawing pencils)
48 sheets billboards
How the map might look on a billboard
A model Dymaxion map
A 3D model version under construction