Throughout October, Lewisham Council and students from Goldsmiths, University of London, will be exhibiting a range of climate change design pieces and artwork at Lewisham Library.
Earlier this year Lewisham Council was awarded a grant as part of the Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) project, “Tomorrow's Climate, Today's Challenge”, The aim of the project is to raise awareness of climate change and its effects on the region.
The Council commissioned students from Goldsmiths, University of London, to produce innovative, informative and exciting ways of communicating the facts about climate change in the London area.
The fourteen second year design students came up with a range of imaginative ideas about how to communicate the climate change 'message', including animated cartoon images of 'climate change mascots'; an imaginary climate change product catalogue of the future; using sensory stimulation, such as smell, to invoke a sense of a damaged earth; using 'electronic graffiti’ to project climate change messages; a tube map vision of the future, taking the well-known image of the London tube network and showing where areas of the capital could be under water after flooding caused by global warming.
Councillor Susan Wise, Cabinet Member for Customer Services at Lewisham Council, said: "People absorb information in different ways and we need to find new and different methods of reaching them. Defra wanted something creative and original and that is exactly what the students have given us.
I'm sure that people visiting the exhibition will be intrigued and entertained and also stimulated to think about what they can do to reduce their own carbon footprint, to help lessen their impact on climate change in the world today."
Oliver Bishop-Young, one of Goldsmiths students whose work will be on display, said: "This was a great opportunity for us to take part in an exciting project, especially as we are very interested in sustainable issues. As a designer having a sustainable brief is important as it is meaningful now and in the future. Hopefully our work will help the climate change message reach more people. It means a lot to us that our work will now be seen by the public and that we are being taken seriously by the Council."
The artwork will be on display at Lewisham Library from Monday 1 October to Wednesday 31 October and is free to everyone.