18.07.14 – 05.10.14
STRANGE WEATHER: FORECASTS FROM THE FUTURE
We are obsessed with the weather. It is a powerful, shared daily experience, offering us an immediate talking point with which to engage our fellow citizens. Yet when we talk about climate change the sense of guilt or powerlessness is enough to kill the conversation.
By engaging both weather and climate in a playful, provocative way, we hope to leapfrog over current polarised public debates. STRANGE WEATHER propels you to forecast your own fate on a changing planet with an uncertain future.
By bringing together works by artists, designers, scientists, meteorologists and engineers STRANGE WEATHER asks questions such as: Should human culture be reshaped to fit strange weather or should we reshape weather to fit our strange culture? Who is going to take advantage of climate chaos and how will strange weather benefit me? How will you choose to work, celebrate, live and die when weather gets weird?
Curators
Lynn Scarff & Ian Brunswick - Science Gallery Dublin
Cathrine Kramer & Zackery C. Denfeld - Curators of STRANGE WEATHER and co-founders of CoClimate
Gerald Fleming - Curator of STRANGE WEATHER and Head of Forecasting at Met Éireann
Highlights
Exhibits
The ability of meteorologists to make long term forecasts about the weather incrementally improves by about one day every decade…
This interactive 3D exhibit draws on the EC-Earth climate model to put the predictions of climate modellers at visitors’ fingertips.
Dupont’s patented Tychem® hazardous materials clean-up suits are used in petroleum industry disaster response to mitigate ecological disasters…
Isobar maps are used by forecasters to analyse the current state of the atmosphere as a precursor to predicting future weather patterns…
Cloud is a multimedia art installation that provides a visual, interactive critique of the US sub-prime mortgage crisis and the housing bubble originating in 2007.
Occupy II is a representation of alien and invasive plant species that have been sighted in Arctic regions.
A People’s Archive of Sinking and Melting is a growing collection of items contributed from places that may disappear due to the combined physical, political, and economic impacts of climate change…
Talking About the Weather is a series of works created from FICTILIS’s research into weather-related language…
The Atmosphere: A Guide is a poster-essay visualising the ways in which human beings occupy the present, the past and the future atmospheres…
The Solar Wind Aeroscope is an artistic instrument dealing with atmospheric conditions that depend on ‘space weather’ a storm of electromagnetic particles from the sun…
If you’ve ever made a prediction, especially about your own future, you know how hard it can be…
An advanced technology that will keep corporate managers safe even when climate change makes life as we know it impossible…
The Arctic is home to the world’s largest untapped gas reserves: 13% of the world’s remaining oil, and vast mineral deposits.
Lying down on a hill with your pupils filled with the endless blue sky, perspective of your eyesight suddenly gets distorted and clouds drift at the tip of your nose…
“Let us project our present knowledge with a little imagination and speculate on how satellites might be used in future operations from a world wide weather center…