By Zetteler
Published April 23, 2021
What will the world look like after the Anthropocene era comes to an end?
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This May 2021, speculative design studio, Superflux, offers two evocative and immersive visions of our planet’s possible future, with major installations at the biennales in both Venice (Italy) and Vienna (Austria).
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As founders Anab Jain and Jon Ardem deepen their focus on alternative futures in a climate-altered world, each work examines the directions in which our planetary cultures and ecosystems are moving, imagining a world adapted to climate collapse and considering the possibilities of hope and resurgence.
In Venice, from May 22 to November 21, 2021, Refuge for Resurgence will bring together multiple forms of life on earth – humans and animals together – around a dinner table to mark their ecological interdependence.
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Meanwhile in Vienna, Invocation for Hope runs from May 28 to October 3, 2021 and will lead visitors through a blackened forest of wildfire-damaged trees to a central pool, where they will be encouraged to reflect on their place in a more-than-human world.
