Climate Conservancy

Turning Data into Emotion ❄️🧊
Artist and three-time TED speaker Thijs Biersteker transforms climate data into emotion.
In his work Memories of the Melted, created together with glaciologists Heïdi Sevestre and Matthias Huss, 139,000 datapoints from the Rhône Glacier in Switzerland become a visual reminder that we are approaching a tipping point.
Today, Switzerland’s glaciers are losing ice faster than ever - about 10% of their volume disappeared in just two years. Biersteker’s work makes this loss visible, bridging the gap between what we know and what we feel.
💭 What does this work make you feel?
Artwork: Memories of the Melted by Thijs Biersteker
Science reference: Sevestre & Huss, Rhône Glacier projections