We live in the world of interdependence. We all need to jump outside the boxes to see the entire picture and the knock-on effects that we bring to the world. Thus, "seeing Global Warming from outside boxes" became our design idea. The installation composes of 20 inter-connected boxes of digital signages. Each box contains a different mechanism that works in its own way and at the same time makes up the "entire world", the overall pictorial, to move. Buttons on the installation each representing different issues on Global Warming.

When pressed by the audience, a ball will start rolling through different boxes in a Rube Goldberg machine style to lead the issue. Following the rolling ball, the audience could see the interdependencies among different indicators and learn about the issue based on DPSIR model.

Background We are commissioned to design an entrance signage for the permanent Climate Change Exhibition in NSTM (National Science and Technology Museum in Taiwan) to introduce DPSIR model on Global Warming.

The European Environment Agency (EEA) developed the DPSIR model, and it describes the interactions and interdependencies between the environment and the society. Scientists use DPSIR (D-Driving forces, P-Pressures, S-States, I-Impacts, and R-Responses) to describe and analyze the overall cause-effect of human-environment activities, and inform climate change issues.

Challenges How might we - reinterpret and better pictorialize DPSIR model on Global Warming issues? - increase the approachability of the DPSIR model? - communicate such a scientific model in a more fun way without losing its academic validity?

Design We live in the world of interdependence. We have to jump outside the box to see the entire picture and the knock-on effects that we bring to the world. Thus, "seeing Global Warming from outside boxes" became the design idea.

The installation composes of 20 inter-connected boxes of digital signages. Each box contains a different mechanism that works in its own way and at the same time makes up the "entire world", the overall pictorial, to move.

Buttons on the installation each representing different issues on Global Warming. When pressed by the audience, a ball will start rolling through different boxes in a Rube Goldberg machine style to lead the issue. Following the rolling ball, the audience could see the interdependencies among different indicators and learn about the issue based on DPSIR model.