This Can’t Wait: Billboards for Energy Transition arose from the question: how can we use printmaking to incite social change? The project takes the 2018 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report as its starting point, which declared that we have 9 years to halve our carbon usage to maintain 1.5 degrees of global warming. Billboard-sized ‘banners’ designed by emerging and established artists and designers subvert the language of advertising and re-conceptualize how we talk about climate action and energy transition within public spaces.
Ruth Beer, Sean Caulfield, Caitlin Fisher, Patrick Mahon, Thomas Mahon, Janice Makokis, Sheena Wilson + juried student artists from Jamie-Lee Girodat's Winter 2020 printmaking class (Ysannah Avient-Lario, Kayla Bleoo, Devin Cypher, Thomas Fenton, Maaike Kuypers, Emma Rockwell, Vivian Trinh, and Rachel Tripodi).
To activate the Augmented Reality (AR) components of the banner, point your smartphone camera at the orange QR code:
Coming soon