The Great Ocean Rise, the myth of the blue planet
@aalto university, finland | designer | 2024
i was part of a global cohort of 50 participants asked to approach water-related environmental and societal challenges through the interdisciplinary perspectives of artmaking, film, and technology.
we addressed under-appreciated water-related issues and solutions through unconventional storytelling.
central question to our group’s research was, where will we end up if ‘we’ keep consuming water as an inexhaustible resource?
we approached this fundamentally existential question with a myth of modern times, experienced in an immersive audiovisual environment. participants entered our underwater earth, 2000 years from now, immersed in the following scenario:
dive into the blue planet, where our descendants tell the tale of how they came to live underwater.
their origin story begins with the great ocean rise, a mythological telling of our current predicament on land, where the waters rise up to remind humans where we came from, where we come from - the blue planet.
the descendants have sent you a message from the future
they invite you to join in the ritual of giving gratitude to the blue planet,
knowing it is this connection that will save us from drowning during the time of the great ocean rise.
the myth of the blue planet is a two way story. our descendants tell the myth of the moment we find ourselves in now, and we hear it told back to us. The emphasis is that our connection to water, both literal and spiritual, is what keeps us truly alive.
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