VRTO 2020 Heath Hanlin - Kairos - One Square Mile - Ecological Awareness through Immersive Media

The following presentation originally screened at VRTO 2020, is now available to the public for the first time:
'Kairos is an ambitious science communication project that incorporates climate change models and research into dramatic virtual reality environments. Our focus is to develop immersive worlds for parents and children to experience together in children’s and science museums across the US and internationally. The core vision for Kairos is to present global warming hotspots to audiences in a visceral, multisensory manner, so they may experience the pace and scale of climate change on an individual level. Kairos will translate enormous amounts of scientific data into engaging, multisensory experiences, providing the context and means for our audience to perceive time and our climate as a set of interwoven, multi-generational challenges. In addition to focusing on global hotspots, we will create custom experiences for each city or institution that hosts the exhibit, using regional climate information as a way of building empathy for the other communities represented in the exhibit. The deliberate design of the exhibit space alongside the immersive virtual reality experience together will engage and inform participants from any demographic—young, old, urban, rural—to translate science into understanding and bring research to the community.
With Kairos: One Square Mile, our goal is to present the climate crisis at human scale. We want our audience to experience the impact of climate change locally as well as global hotspots where the crisis is already underway. The scale aspect of this is incredibly important. While the first photos of the earth from the Apollo missions did amazing good in terms of sparking early environmentalism and underscoring the fragility of the planet we share, most people are incapable of comprehending climate change on a planetary scale. Each VR experience or level of Kairos: One Square Mile will comprise one square mile, a measurement of space that individual humans can comprehend in a personal, physical way. Climate change is still remote for a great many US citizens; something that is happening somewhere else, and to someone else. By showing local and/or regional impacts of climate change as well as distant places we can use the viscerally of VR to build empathy, and inspire action.'
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