Stable Unstable Earth

Eldbjørg Blikra Vea and Christine Hvidt

Coloured dots on a dark blue background

About

Our planet is a complex and fragile system. Accelerating progression and human activities drive environmental impacts that can destabilize the Earth. The Planetary Boundaries concept identifies nine biophysical processes that regulate the stability and resilience of the Earth system. Boundaries are proposed for each of these processes, that delimit where large-scale irreversible environmental changes are expected to occur.

Stable Unstable Earth is a generative and interactive audiovisual piece where you can explore how our accelerating human impact drives the exceedance of the Planetary Boundaries and their self-reinforcing interactions. Listen to the dynamic interactions between the Earth system processes themselves, or interfere directly with the processes’ inherent system logics.

Contributor bios

Vekselvirkninger (Danish, meaning Synergies), is a project and collaboration between artist Christine Hvidt and researcher Eldbjørg Vea. With Vekselvirkninger, they examine what occurs when scientific and artistic methods form ties. From each of their fields, in a parallel process they work on the topic of absolute sustainability, where human footprints are measured against the bearing capacity of nature.
Eldbjørg is a PhD student at the Technical University of Denmark, working with sustainability assessments with the focus on marine eutrophication and environmental sustainability boundaries.
Christine is a Danish multimedia artist. Through a variety of forms and media her work revolves around themes of systems: technological, mechanical and ecologies; as well as societal and behavioural structures and relations between human and ‘nature’.