The brief

Using the Climate Catastrophe as a starting point, you are tasked with designing an innovative outcome that delivers positive progress in climate action. How can designers respond and use their skills to improve the world around them? What can you create that doesn't just raise awareness but results in behaviour change?

Valerian

This design fiction project combines poetry, music and digital design to save our planet.

Scenario

It’s 2049, and cities all over the world are flourishing. With only a year left until carbon neutrality, THE INTERNATIONAL CARBON CREDIT COMMITTEE (TI3C) mandates are increasing in quantity and urgency. Globally, TI3C has implemented carbon quotas for each citizen of 0.5 tonnes of CO2e (500 CARBON CREDIT) per month, monitored by the latest TI3C digital service called VALERIAN. :)

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Project Timeline

Discover
Primary Research
Secondary Research

Define:
Patterns
Insights
Problem statement

The cause of global warming is an increase in certain gases that retain heat. Over 90% of the problem is two carbon-based gases, Methane and CO2. Governments worldwide have agreed to reduce CO2 emissions by 80% by 2050, but the policies and measures they are putting in place don't look like they will reduce the carbon emissions fast enough to meet that target. Individuals can change this future. Climate catastrophe is preventable if we adopt a low-carbon lifestyle. We can reduce our carbon emissions by 80% without waiting for the government or corporations to take action. To reduce our carbon footprint, we must make substantial lifestyle changes. It can be done, and new technologies to make things greener are coming on stream all the time, but it is a reminder that the declared aim in many countries of going carbon neutral by 2050 means a revolution in how we live.

Develop:
Ideate
Evaluate
Create
Test
Prototype

Deliver
Learn
Iterate
Repeat
Finalise Solution
Finalise Design