Shifting- The Climate Adaptation Project
Experience Design
Bezalel M.Des Design & Technology graduate project
Year: 2020
Mentor: Itay Laniado
Shifting is a platform for the research and development of methodological and experiential tools for expanding human skills needed to deal with climatic extremes.
The project arose out of the realization and acceptance of a dystopian future, an understanding that the climate crisis is here to stay. Underlying this understanding is the perception that human beings have skills and qualities on which they can rely in extreme conditions, and are therefore able to cope with the climate crisis on a personal level.
The first outcome of 'Shifting', is a digital, interactive fiction based on realistic climate scenarios and their implications on human life. The current story represents a scenario that takes place somewhere on an island in the Pacific Ocean, and is built from a multi-layered script with a large number of different plots and endings. The experience throws the user into an extreme climatic reality and confronts them with various dilemmas and choices. The user can navigate within the plot, and influence its development through decisions they take. Each decision shapes a personal profile for each player that is revealed at the end of the experience.
This project aims to empower the participants with a sense of capability of facing a dystopian future, and to raise awareness of the global climate crisis.
We are creative engagers, the community of the M.Des Bezalel Design & Technology department Sketching thoughts and responses to the absurd CODIV-19 isolation period
