Designing the Atmosphere

Michael Pinsky, Pollution Pads, Trondheim

ASLE Conference, Paradise on Fire, UC Davis, CA, USA, 2019

Paradise is on fire. Heaven is not the promised land anymore. Smog in mega cities, pollution in industrialized areas, and holes in the ozone layer change the physical and culturally informed perception of the air and atmosphere surrounding us.

My paper discuses projects by artists and designers that are based on the idea of air as a matter of evidence for climate change: and projects, that at the same time use air as a designable medium.