Future North . 2008
Future North: Ecotarium, 2008
with Mitchell Joachim/Terreform
Video Projection, 3 minThe Future North Ecotarium project imagines our future in the next hundred years after irreversible climate change. Massive migrations of urban populations will move north to escape severe flooding and increasing temperatures. Area inside the Artic regions will warm up significantly, making their occupation newly desirable. Real estate values will shift to privilege far northern climates formerly imagined as the edge of the earth. The reality of hundreds of millions of people relocating their respective centers of culture, business, and life is almost incomprehensible. In this animation, entire cities float away from their flooded moorings and meet in a new North, reimagining the entire surface of our planet in the future.
Terreform architects:
Makoto Okazaki
Maria Aiolova
Melanie Fessel