12.10.17 - 11.02.18
IN CASE OF EMERGENCY
What’s the difference between a collapse, a downfall, and a downright apocalypse? How will it all end, and why do we love to wonder? Ice or fire, zombies or bombs? Out with a bang or a whimper? And can we do anything to stop the decline? IN CASE OF EMERGENCY explores why the disastrous can be devilishly entertaining, and whether there’s any truth to these dismal predictions. Join doomers, designers, and doctors as they lay out the top threats to our world, evaluate how likely they are, and what we can do about it.
Curators
IAN BRUNSWICK - Head Of Programming Science Gallery Dublin
LYNN SCARFF - Director, Science Gallery Dublin
PETE LUNN - Economic and Social Research Institute(ESRI)
CLIONA O’FARRELLY - Professor of Comparative Immunology TCD
AILISE BULFIN - Department of English, NUI, Maynooth
Highlights
The world today faces more threats than we can comprehend. Most of these are caused by humankind: nuclear war, climate change, inequality, societal breakdown…
There is a subtle and mysterious sense of a world in a state of flux, particularly when we see the rise of air pollution in crowded urban landscapes…
In 1890, English writer William Morris published News From Nowhere, outlining his multidimensional view of a socialist utopia…
Deserts now cover 18% of China, and a quarter of them were caused by ecologically damaging human activities.
The Situation Room is an immersive experience where visitors are faced with complex questions and difficult choices.
This collection of books contains selections from the Manual for Civilization …
Are you curious to find out what the Irish government has planned for an emergency?
Since the threat of nuclear cataclysm in the mid-twentieth century, survivalism has embedded itself in the public consciousness as an attitude for those intent on planning for the worst case scenario…
These solid concrete sculptures depict the final moments of the last few remaining humans, after the planet has been rendered uninhabitable by pollution and reckless wasting of resources.
M-Ark is a project that tackles the prospect of a future in which humanity has rendered our planet inhospitable…
This piece was created created in conjunction with researchers at CONNECT, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Future Networks and Communications…
This piece was created in collaboration with iCRAG, the Irish Centre for Research in Applied Geosciences
Brandon’s work reflects that we are in the middle of a biodiversity crisis, often referred to as the Anthropocene or sixth great extinction.
When a sub-glacial eruption occurs, the volcano melts gigantic amounts of the glacier, which falls into the volcano…
In 2012, Colin Matthes spent a year on the barren Atlantic coast of Ireland, where the weather is an ever-present and dominating factor in people’s daily lives..
Today, global mobility takes place on a complex network of more than 25,000 connections between more than 4,000 airports worldwide…
The Doomsday Clock is not a physical clock; it’s a symbol, designed to warn us about how close we are to the end of the world.
As humans, we certainly like to play out our doom from the safety of our living rooms
CDS Mess is a card game that teaches players how Collateralised Debt Obligations (CDO) and Credit Default Swaps (CDS) were used in the subprime mortgage crisis
An interactive exhibit that lets you take part in science (as well as learning about it).
64 Things To Worry About is a living picture. A grid of diffused lights in a deep wooden frame, designed to be hung on a wall in place of a clock, providing a heat map of the state of the world.