Impact by Degrees°
Key public diplomacy event staged in the lead up to the 2009 UN Climate Change Conference, Copenhagen COP-15, Impact by Degrees° communicates an urgent message about the interdependence of our biophysical, social and electronic habitats in the context of global climate change.
A. Ivanova, Embassy of Australia, Washington
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VIP reception for Impact by Degrees° exhibition curated by Ivanova. Photo: courtesy of the embassy
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Justine Cooper, 'The Waiting Room' from Saved by Science, American Museum of Natural History
The Impact by Degrees° exhibition was a key public diplomacy event presented by the Embassy of Australia in Washington in the lead up to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, Conference of the Parties COP15 in Copenhagen in 2009. It showed cultural responses to one of the most urgent challenges to confront humanity: climate change.
It displayed imaginative artworks: from projects highlighting environmental and social sustainability challenges caused by climate change and growing security issues to the importance of innovation at the local level. |
IMPACT by DEGREES°
Australian Art and Climate Change Curator Annie Ivanova Artists Justine Cooper, Josie Starrs & Leon Cmielewski, Natalie Jeremijenko, Jon McCromack, Mari Velonaki, Martin Walch 
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