Digital Anthology: Climate Storytelling 2075 Volume II
Climate Futures Studio announces the premiere of the Climate Storytelling 2075 Digital Anthology: Volume II.
We are honored to share this preview of Volume II in the Climate Storytelling 2075 anthology. With works hailing from diverse media and corners of our planet, this anthology offers a window into just, regenerative, and radically care-driven futures for all. Explore textile design, original music, photography, films, speculative fiction, recipes and menus, and more that make this irresistible future tangible today.
Join us online, or at the the NYC gallery exhibition “Imagining Climate Futures” to experience this latest edition of the Climate Storytelling 2075 anthology.
🐚 As you stroll the gallery or scroll through Volume II of Climate Storytelling 2075, immerse in a future where our tiny co-inhibitor of this planet, the cowrie snail, is venerated and uplifted through the spirit of dance, celebrated as life, not currency, in Elizabeth Dawson’s work “Litha.”
🍄🟫 Share in a future where communities communicate via mycelial mutual aid networks to share knowledge and support, as seen in Lovinia Summer and Robin Moulton’s “Colore.”
🐝 Be transported to Yumi Rodriguez’s realm of reverence for our more-than-human, earthly companions in “The Yumiverse” (best experienced in-person in its immersive, glowing corridor!).
🚪 Envision how carbon capture technology might work with the quiet but remarkable power of algae—and learn what creativity is unlocked for our future ancestors living in a balanced ecosystem in Michael R. Dudley Jr’s “The Red Door.”
🪬 Byssan Samny’s “Silence of Echoes” reveres generational wisdom passed down through the women of her family, community, and homeland, woven into artifacts that testify the power of connection to land in our solutions for local resilience.
🌳 Rachel Cranmer beautifully speculates the possibilities of green burial in a future where humanity’s relationship to death offers renewal and deeper connection with the ecosystems we call home in “Snag.”
📝 In “Letters on Care” Cindy J. Xie invites us to rekindle relationships over space, consider the climate’s push and pull on migration, and encounter disability within our climate future.
🌊 What does a love story look like in a 2075 transformed - amidst the rise of green infrastructure across the Philippines? Pamela Lira offers us the first story, “Of Seas and Storms” from Project KARTAng-Isip: 7641 islands, 50 years, 18 stories of 1 nation.
🍲 Victoria Fauve Desvaux and Resort Collective invite you to gather, fully immersing their guests in a 2075 from a shared collective climate history, and speculating: what’s for dinner? “Solarpunk Table 2075” offers a playbook to recreate the shared experience of re-learning our food and water in a local future food system.
🦋 “A Story of Survival on Altered Islands” by Invasive Art Initiative asks us to consider the unlikely paired story of English Plantain and the endangered Taylors’ Checkerspot Butterfly, where colonization, dwindling food sources, and ecological devastation across the Gulf Islands have forced a new perspective on introduced species like English Plantain in the revival of
🧺 Grandmothers played an important role in many of these works: photographing Elizabeth’s Litha costume, lending kitchen scissors for Yumi’s “Yumiverse” install, and weaving a stunning Tree of Life Moroccan carpet in the countryside with Byssan Samny for her “Silence of Echoes”. Christinah Munyiva Muthiani’s granddaughter Anastasia Onyango dedicates her entire work to her grandma, her grandma’s garden, and the baskets woven between them as an embodiment of a future beyond mere resilience in “my grandma’s garden: beyond resilience.”
👩🌾 Harmony Richards interviewed farmers across Southern California about what they imagine they might wear in 2075. Richards then crafted this collective imagination into “Farmer Armor,” draping the future of feeding each other.
📖 Mariana Castro Azpiroz designed a whole universe of expanded and repurposed language for us each to carry home, to begin speaking a new relationship with each other, and with all of our kin, thanks to her “Caretakers’ New Dictionary.”
🌇 When Crystal R. Barajas Rivera thinks of the future, she thinks communally, uplifting her Los Angeles neighborhood in her short documentary, “Imagínate Los Ángeles” where she asks Spanish-speakers she encounters how they envision our climate in 2075.
🏜️ Shirene Shomloo gives voice to desert ecosystems and the role we play in each others’ futures, and in Shomloo’s own present and past as an artist of the Iranian diaspora of Los Angeles with “Astonishing Light”.
🪡 Summer Dean and Laiyonelth Hurtado grant us entry into a regenerative future where fashion sustains and replenishes local ecologies with “The Living Thread”.
🫙Kristen Howard’s meditation on the spiritual guidance of plants clinks and glimmers in fluorescent brilliance in her “Echoes of Protection: Bottle Tree 2075”.
🌌 Makayla Howard speculates a future archive of dark sky access, recharging the spiritual relationship of a girl and the Midwest night sky in 2075. Her speculative cyanotypes of galaxies, processed by moonlight, offer us limitless imagination on how we can choose to protect and cherish our world in “MIDWEST GIRL ARCHIVE 2075.”
