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Environment And Sustainability

Climate Sign Archive

By Anna Madeleine Raupach

The Climate Sign Archive is an augmented reality (AR) artwork that allows people to place community-sourced climate change protest signs as virtual objects into physical space around them. This project enacts positive approaches to both the climate change and COVID-19 crises by mobilizing communal creative expression for climate action in innovative artistic forms while maintaining physical distance amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The prototype website calls for the public to submit images of protest signs to an online digital archive. The project aims to capture this moment in cultural history and then intensify it by digitally relocating the signs to new spaces using AR. It will empower participants by allowing them to contribute to and access an online database of signs searchable by thematic tags, location, and dates; use the AR app to place virtual signs from the database into physical space around them; and record their virtual protest scene to share online. Future aims include the capacity to anchor a virtual protest to a GPS location for others to visit and to view maps of geo-located protest sites around the world.

The restrictions of COVD-19 bring a new urgency to adapting the physical presence of collective expression for climate action while maintaining social distancing. The Climate Sign Archive holds the potential to activate community cohesion at this critical time.

Please submit images of climate change protest signs to the digital archive: https://www.climatesignarchive.com/

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Credits

Artist
Anna Madeleine Raupach
Signs have been submitted by people around Australia.