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The Horrific Image of Climate Crisis

Name
Kirsten Lauge Jørgensen
Education degree
Master
Subject area
Design
Study programme
Graphic Communication Design
Year
2022

“Science describes accurately from outside; poetry describes accurately from inside. Science explicates; poetry implicates. Both celebrate what they describe. We need the languages of both science and poetry to save us from merely stockpiling endless “information” that fails to inform our ignorance or our irresponsibility"

- Ursula Le Guin, 2014

This project investigates the connection between the genre of horror and climate crisis. The result of the project is a publication that contains a Danish translation of Ursula K. Le Guin's speech Deep in Admiration in combination with a series of visualisations based on the climate concept Shifting Baseline Syndrome. It address the need of alternative representation and perspectives on the climate crisis that we are currently facing, but do not treat like a crisis.

The Royal Danish Academy supports the Sustainable Development Goals
Since 2017 the Royal Danish Academy has worked with the Sustainable Development Goals. This is reflected in our research, our teaching and in our students’ projects. This project relates to the following UN goal(-s):
Climate action (13)