GARDEN OF FUTURE DELIGHTS consists of a series of three paintings inspired by science-based simulation modeling of global environmental change. The paintings are activated by audience members through an accompanying augmented reality (AR) digital overlay, which contains additional information in the form of three-dimensional images and scientific graphs. The AR component was created using a set of long-term scenarios, otherwise known as Shared Socio-economic Pathways (SSP), which model plausible socio-economic and environmental futures. SSP’s are used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), as well as governments and research-groups globally for climate change research. Garden of Future Delights draws on these pathways to represent parallel realities that emerge from the choices we can make right now. In doing so it asks us to consider the possibilities and limits of our current practices of scientific visualization and translation. Garden of Future Delights was presented at the Prototypes for Possible Worlds exhibition, which was held at the University of Alberta’s Fine Arts Building Gallery from 10 December 2019 to 11 January 2020.
What are the limits of our current practices of scientific visualization?
Garden of Future Delights Team Members
Additional collaborators include Wallace Edwards.
