after models?
2018 / video installation / with: Irina Chernyakova, Irmak Turan, and Jessica Varner
Since the development of the first general circulation model in the 1960s, computationally-driven models have served and continue to serve as the primary mode of understanding, representing, analyzing, communicating and shifting the world in a climate changed. Climate Changed: After Models? looks at the common language and use of modeling between design and the sciences.
Climate Changed: After Models? positions a range of historical and future speculative modeling proposals together from the 1960s onward to explore how design has responded to climate-related models and the reality of climate change. The historical projects from the 1960s to the 1990s specifically focus on how designers, architects, engineers, consumers, and policy makers have understood the post-1960s moment as a period of changing scientific awareness around the agency of climate-related models. Coupled with a growing connection between environmental change and the built environment various changes on the ground occurred including: shifting consumer expectations, policy implementation, and projects built under the new paradigm. We ask: What happens after and between models in these projects?
The Climate Changed event series is co-sponsored by the MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative and the MIT School of Architecture and Planning.