Climate Futures

STRYBX 2032

Climate Storytelling

Imagine. It’s 2032, and Sydney has learned to protect itself against climate change. There's no more coal burning. The suburbs are full of trees. You're looking back in time to the present day. What's your world like? Can you describe it to us? How do you feel?

The team collaborated with students from across Sydney to imagine a future Sydney in 2032, and invited storytellers to speak to us from the future decade. Students from Sydney Story Factory contributed poetry to the project. Following the Covid-19 lockdowns we invited students from Dulwich School of Art and Design to create performances from a future date, inviting students to reflect on whether the leaders had listened to the warnings of climate change, or continued on as ‘business as usual’.

This project turned STORYBOX into a time portal, enabling the idea that people in the future were looking back at us, in the present day. The creative collaborations were featured as part of VIVID Sydney in 2022.

Thanks to our collaborators

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CREDITS

‍Created and produced by Esem Projects
‍Supported by Destination NSW for Vivid 2021-2022.‍

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Creative Team

‍Dr. Sarah Barns - Concept Design, Research and Direction
Michael Killalea - Creative Strategy
Omee Deling - Photographic Producer
Waded - Photographer
Kelvin Harries - Stylist
Gavin Anesbury - Hair and Makeup
Elena Khrustalyova - Video editor and text animation

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Student collaborators
‍Sydney Story Factory
‍Bilal Hafda (Storyteller in chief)
Tinoosh Zarei
Naikbakht
Mays al shawi
Mariya Badami
Hajara Musthafa

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‍Performers
‍Students from Dulwich High School of Visual Arts and Design
‍Sasha Boalch
Zoe Collyer
Michael Rincon Nation
Jonas O'Connor