The project “Planet Live” shows the health and the status of the world and enables those events to be tracked in real time. The project shows what happens to our planet in the 18 categories: Climate change, air quality, wild fires, winds, earthquakes, armed conflicts and much more. Observing and understanding this can be surprising, informative and should inspire environmentally friendly actions.
The project was originally an exhibit of the exhibition “ZeitRäume”, curated by André Heller at Taggenbrunn Castle in St. Veit an der Glan, Austria, on behalf of the Jacques Lemans company. The exhibition is open since summer 2021 and is performing well and got many very positive reviews in local as well as international press.
The project will now be further developed: We are currently seeking for public funding as well as we are looking for partners and sponsors for further development. In parallel we will sell systems for which we target in our communications municipal offices, schools, universities, international institutions and later also Endconsumers.
Content
Current datasets were assigned to the 5 elements
FIRE
Wildfires
Global Temperature
Drought
WATER
Sea Rise
Coral Bleaching
Sea Ice
Ocean Health
EARTH
Earthquakes
Deforestation
Conservation
AIR
Air Quality
Cyclones
Greenhouse Gases
HUMAN
Conflicts
Piracy
COVID
Air Traffic
Shipping
The partnership with ESRI / SynerGIS, a world market leader for geographic
information systems, there are potentially several thousand geographic data sets to be implemented. These selected data sets had the following attributes:
- Global availability (most data sets are only local)
- Consistency (some scientific data sets are difficult to understand)
- Look and feel
The project takes up the idea of the “World Game” of the inventor and pioneer, Buckminster Fuller, who said people would treat their planet better if they only saw the consequences of their actions. An implementation of the idea was not possible in the 1960s due to a lack of networked computers and was therefore limited to working together on large cards made of paper.
Today, such processes can be supported by the computer.
Image: Buckminster Fuller on his Dymaxion Map surrounded by students. “A comprehensive informational resource database, and educational simulation tool, to help create solutions to overpopulation and the uneven distribution of global resources. Games For Cities (1961)” – see also http://gamesforcities.com/database/world-game/.
