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The GGCL is grounded in science but emphasizes telling compelling stories about glaciers and how their losses have or will impact human communities in terms of cultural meaning, natural beauty, water availability, economic opportunity and world heritage. The GGCL is a partnership with the World Glacier Monitoring Service and UNESCO and has been supported by the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Residency Program. It launched in August 2024 with a Glacier Graveyard installation in Seltjarnarnes, Iceland.
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This dynamic online platform helps to visualize data about recently disappeared and soon-to-disappear glaciers. The social design challenge is how to create emotional connections with the melting of the global cryosphere, given that the vast majority of the human population will never to come into direct contact with a glacier.
RAIN GARDENS
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This project focuses on developing rain gardens as a supplementary green stormwater infrastructure intervention to help manage urban flooding. Unlike expensive, slow-to-build conventional stormwater infrastructure, rain gardens are affordable and simple to create; they facilitate community engagement and participatory design strategies. They also offer hyperlocal hydrological strategies that are responsive to specific landscapes allowing for efficient stormwater detention when rain falls and thriving biodiversity and community amenities in any weather.
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