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In this section, we show how the climate-related metasphere can stimulate us to think about the problem of global heating even in rather unspectacular situations.
Water is a scarce, precious resource. Yet we see many water usages just for fun or as architectural element in the design of squares, especially in the placement of fountains. These fountains can be regarded as fictional means of cooling a heated world. However, even in such a fiction the means do not always meet the goals.
Location: Bern, Bundesplatz
Metasphere creation: Gerhard Knolmayer,
Sarah Montani and APTIQ
Video: Gerhard Knolmayer:
"Will his joy last with further heating?" (2023)
Location:
Alghero, Placa de Sulis
Metasphere creation:
Gerhard Knolmayer,
Sarah Montani, APTIQ
Video: Gerhard Knolmayer:
"Global warming even makes
the fountain's water red"
(2023)
Location:
Vienna, Karlskirche
Metasphere creation:
Gerhard Knolmayer,
Sarah Montani, APTIQ
Video: Gerhard Knolmayer:
"Are our climate protection measures on target?" (2023)
Location:
Naßwald, Lower Austria
Metasphere creation:
Gerhard Knolmayer,
Sarah Montani, APTIQ
Video:
Gerhard Knolmayer:
"Can we stop the disaster in time?" (2023)
Location:
Sölden, Tyrol
Metasphere creation:
Gerhard Knolmayer,
Sarah Montani, APTIQ
Video:
Gerhard Knolmayer:
"A famous skiing resort - snowless in February" (2024)
Location:
Angerer Alm, Hochgurgl, Tyrol
Metasphere creation:
Gerhard Knolmayer,
Sarah Montani, APTIQ
Video:
Gerhard Knolmayer:
"Unfortunately there's no Planet B" (2024)
2023: In the warmest October on record, countless restaurant heaters lit up Vienna's city center with subtle red light to warm the apparently freezing guests. Vienna is different - in many cities these radiant heaters are banned.
The Christmas lighting, organized by the Chamber of Commerce and the City of Vienna, is used in Vienna's shopping streets since mid-November to increase the desire to shop. Unfortunately, the opportunity was missed to remind people with special lightening objects of sustainability and to encourage reflection in a year of horrible crises.
However, climate activists took action in a new, quiet way: they placed a virtual globe with desert-like reddened land masses reminiscent of climate change between the incentives for the Christmas shopping frenzy and distribute the associated photos and videos via the Internet.
In some places, the two types of Christmas decorations have been symbiotically linked: Calls to buy combined with those for sustainability and contemplation. Can economy and ecology be combined after all?
Location: Vienna, Graben, November 2023
Metasphere creation:
Gerhard Knolmayer,
Sarah Montani and APTIQ
Foto: Gerhard Knolmayer:
"Christmas Lightening, Restaurant Heaters, and Hot Landscapes" (2023)
Locations: Vienna:
Rotenturmstraße, Lugeck, Herrengasse, Graben, Rathauspark.
November 2023
Metasphere creation:
Gerhard Knolmayer,
Sarah Montani and APTIQ
Photos and Videos:
Gerhard Knolmayer:
"Augmented Christmas Lightening" (2023)
Location: Downtown Vienna, December 2023
Metasphere creation:
Gerhard Knolmayer,
Sarah Montani and APTIQ
Foto: Gerhard Knolmayer:
"Stormy Christmas in Vienna" (2023)
