Studio Blue Green

Phycologica: A bioluminescent algae installation activated by visitors’ breath, that will illustrate algae’s potential to remove, and store, carbon from the atmosphere. The interactive installation will help conceptualise the process, showcasing the exchange of carbon dioxide and oxygen, through sight, scent, touch and sound.

Studio Blue Green hope to spark participants’ imagination for a hopeful multi-species future, and to share the potential of algae as a GGR solution.

Ben Weaver-Hincks

Pathways: A Possible Futures Podcast, a sci-fi audio series that will feature five alternative futures exploring Greenhouse Gas Removal, delving into the ethical dilemmas, power-dynamics and societal inequalities that shape their use.

Crucially, each episode will include characters engaged on the front line of climate action, including greenhouse gas removal through novel technologies, soil carbon sequestration and ecosystem restoration.

Billie Ireland 

Billie Ireland’s project seeks to increase understanding of GGR, and shift perceptions of carbon from being a pollutant to an essential element in our efforts to address climate change.

She will create a series of large-scale biochar sculptures, as well as land art, incorporating ritual and reverence, to widen engagement and understanding of biochar and GGR, the soil and climate.

James Price 

James Price’s project, Ffilm School will give access to documentary filmmaking to people who couldn’t usually take part, as they create the Land to Come, a film looking at how GGR could impact the land and its communities.

A residential film school hosted in woodland, local to biochar and Enhanced Rock Weathering projects in Wales, Ffilm School will take an anti-extractivist approach – working against the assumptions that have led to climate change and biodiversity loss, the assumption that you can take without reciprocal obligations.

Miranda Whall 

When Peat Speaks aims ‘to give peat a voice.’ Miranda Whall will use datasets from instrumentation installed across 32 plots on degraded peatland to create drawings, sculptures, film and solo and collaborative performances, including experimental improv music.

The performance pieces will be staged on the peat bog deep within the Cambrian Mountains, and will feature an ensemble of experimental musicians, immersing a live audience in the landscape.

The works hopes to engage audiences with the cultural and ecological significance of peatland, foster a deeper understanding of Green House Gas Removal and offer a post-human perspective and connection to the Cambrian Mountains.

Selina Wagner

The Day we Cleaned the Sky: imagine looking back from the future 500 years from now, celebrating the day we successfully removed greenhouse gases from our atmosphere.

Selina Wagner will create an animated folktale that instead of telling a story from the past, starts a dialogue about something that happens in the future – celebrating the day the world achieved a net-zero emissions economy via GGR. Inspired by creation myths from around the world, the folktale will be developed with school children in Stirlingshire, where she’ll uncover what GGR means to young people and families.

Yambe Tam 

The Rite of the Ten Winds, is an interactive VR experience, featuring a series of purification rituals with each ritual occurring at sunset over the course of a month in cities relevant to GGR, weaving together natural rhythms with the digital world.

Yambe Tam’s VR landscapes and rituals will examine the roles of key players in GGR on microscopic to planetary scales, such as algae, sphagnum moss, humans and machines. Visitors will be able to explore artifacts from each ritual and documentation re GGR. It will be available online in perpetuity.