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Co-visioning the Planet: Art and Science in the face of Climate Change
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CO-VISION Public Panel at Museu de les Terres de l’Ebre in Amposta as part of the Creative Europe project CO-VISION – Mapping the Natural Heritage and the Eufònic programme. The event centred on Marta Royo's installation AMOC, which explores the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation and asks how a largely invisible planetary process can be made perceptible and understandable through artistic practice. The session began with a guided visit and developed into a conversation between Royo and Vanessa Balagué, connecting artistic research with marine science. Royo explained the scientific basis of AMOC, including the role of temperature, salinity and density in ocean circulation, as well as the different technologies used by scientists to observe the ocean, from satellites and oceanographic expeditions to autonomous Argo floats and mathematical models. The conversation then moved beyond scientific explanation to examine how artistic practice can transform data and scientific knowledge into sensory, emotional and imaginative experiences. The installation combines scientific material, audiovisual elements, 3D visualisations, programming, poetry and physical traces of the ocean, demonstrating how different forms of knowledge can coexist within an artistic work. A significant part of the discussion focused on climate uncertainty and communication. Participants reflected on the difficulty of communicating environmental crises without creating only fear or helplessness, and on the potential of art to provide alternative narratives through imagination, metaphor and emotional engagement. The activity also connected the planetary scale of AMOC with the local reality of the Ebro Delta. In continuity with previous CO-VISION activities, the discussion explored how non-human perspectives can help expand our understanding of natural heritage and reveal connections between local ecosystems and global environmental processes. The event concluded with a broader reflection on post-growth, consumption, collective responsibility and the need to rethink contemporary ideas of progress and abundance. It reinforced the potential of art-science collaboration to create new ways of understanding, communicating and imagining our relationship with the natural world.
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