Weaving creative foresight with visual storytelling, their design tells the story of planetary justice through a tripartite digital artwork. Their work was informed and inspired by the Earth Commission’s “three I’s” justice framework: interspecies justice, intergenerational justice, and intragenerational justice.
Science helps us understand the enormity and scale of the challenges we are facing, but it’s the power of storytelling—through art, poetry, and myths—that moves us into action. Our visual chronicle takes the viewer on a journey in three parts: from the systemic problems of the present to a near-future undergoing dramatic technological and economic transformation, finally alighting on a transformed, safe, and just future with a wide implementation of the three I’s.
Through deep critical engagement with the Earth Commission’s research, they envisioned the tangible ways we can redefine humanity’s relationship with the planet. As Joyeeta Gupta and Johan Rockström wrote in the World Economic Forum, “ The safe and just space is rich in opportunities. The time to act is now.”
