Ecologies of change. How art explores the pathways for a just transition
Paris, June 2015: the whole world is watching as the “conference of the parties” unfolds, commonly referred to as: COP21. While the parties meet, eat and negotiate, the clock is ticking. At the Place du Pantheon, twelve giant chunks of glacial ice are placed in a circle. The artist Ólafur Elíasson t...
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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Institut Veolia
2022
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/factsreports/7023 |
| Summary: | Paris, June 2015: the whole world is watching as the “conference of the parties” unfolds, commonly referred to as: COP21. While the parties meet, eat and negotiate, the clock is ticking. At the Place du Pantheon, twelve giant chunks of glacial ice are placed in a circle. The artist Ólafur Elíasson took them from Greenland’s Nuuk Fjord, and shipped them to Paris. There, they are slowly melting in the summer sun, as the world turns, and the time is ticking away. People are attracted, touching t. |
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