CLIMATE ACTIONS 2.0: ARCHITECTURAL SOLIDARITIES

Climate Actions 2.0 proposes installations at two sites: The United Nations Complex in New York and the Supreme Court in Washington D.C. They amplify diverse forms of climate actions, including targeted protests at climate summits and unprecedented litigation on environmental degradation. At the UN, excerpted video-clips of protests at the UN-COP summits held in nine global cities over the last decade unfold as a panorama of marches and disruptive actions. It highlights climate justice demands from the Global South and emphasizes the ineffectiveness of non-binding treaties and voluntary agreements. At the Supreme Court, spatial displays narrate complex climate lawsuits: including one that challenges The World Bank over its financing of a coal powerplant that creates environmental pollution, and another that sues the US government over youth’s rights to a stable future climate. The lawsuit timelines and major arguments are made public as spatial interfaces. Exhibited as paired videomontages showing architectural mediatic interventions, the project focuses on public buildings as interfaces to reveal aspects of institutional inner-workings. It draws attention to inventive forms of resistance and climate mobilization based on regulatory frameworks and legal mechanisms. By proposing tactical installations at civic landmarks, the project offers architectural solidarities towards accelerated collective climate actions.