Overview

The Globe is a spherical projection exhibit, utilizing a 1.5-meter GeoDome Globe and an OmniFocus dual-projector system engineered by Elumenati. The exhibit serves as a visual bridge between complex Earth system sciences and public environmental education.

The exhibition framework has also been adapted for a biodiversity initiative at Skansen's Baltic Sea Science Center in Stockholm, built in collaboration with the Stockholm Resilience Centre and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.

Data Sources & Interactive Exploring

The installation allows visitors to become digital explorers, shifting between macro-environmental disruptions and human dependencies through an interactive touchscreen kiosk. The visualizations are driven by global scientific models, drawing significantly from NOAA's Science on a Sphere data network.

The projections map planetary events across several environmental categories:

• Ocean Systems: Visualizations tracking global marine wildlife distributions, plankton blooms, and moving oceanic thermal currents.
• Atmosphere & Aerosols: Real-time and historical loops displaying smoke drift from forest fires, dust storms, and greenhouse gas density maps.
• Human Footprint: Concrete data overlays outlining global agriculture expansion, localized fishing pressures, manufacturing pollution, and demographic shifts.

Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs)

Beyond mapping historical trends, the exhibit acts as a forecasting tool. It integrates international climate, economic, and Earth system models to project future scenarios—such as global air and sea temperatures—asking critical questions about habitability by the year 2070 based on different societal pathways.

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