The Trump administration appears sceptical about the climate crisis but is deeply concerned about another weather phenomenon: chemtrails. To conspiracists, chemtrails are visible trails left by commercial airliners, lasting longer than the usual condensation trails from jets and containing unknown, sinister chemicals.
Dorian Lynskey's work emphasizes how the climate emergency, while catastrophic, unfolds at a pace slower than typical disaster storytelling allows, challenging traditional narrative forms.
"I grew up in a very privileged place where I had access to clean water, clean air, a backyard to roam around in; I didn't have to worry about living near a power plant, or have direct environmental harms."
Amitabh Behar emphasizes that while billionaires amassed $2 trillion last year, 3.6 billion people live below the poverty line, highlighting increasing global inequality.
The physical clock that they were using was basically like a whiteboard." says Juan Noguera, Assistant Professor of Industrial Design... "they would unveil it by pulling this black cloth and it was just a wobbly setup."
As it seems the world is hellbent on making some of the dystopian futures we have imagined become reality, I raised my concerns about how our work would be used.
