AWARD YEAR
2019
CATEGORY
Play & Learning
GOALS
Responsible Consumption & Production
KEYWORDS
Critical Design, internet, critical thinking
COUNTRY
Spain
DESIGNED BY
Joana Moll
WEBSITE
http://www.janavirgin.com/CO2/CO2GLE_about.html
CO2GLE
a real-time, net-based installation that displays the amount of CO2 by produced by Google searches
What is the material impact of communications through the Internet? 40% of the Internet’s total carbon footprint may be attributed to the design of a web site. According to recent studies, Internet is responsible for the 2% of CO2 of global emissions, more than that of the aviation industry. CO2GLE acts as a symbolic agent which seeks to reveal the link between our actions and their material impact on the physical world, and aims at creating a mechanism that may trigger thoughts and actions that stimulate and re-appropriate subjectivity. I believe that this is an essential process in the generation of critical thought about the true nature of technology, and in the imagination of alternative techno-paradigms which may coherently respond to our environmental and human conditions.