“Avertissement à l’Humanité”
“As part of the May 68 - Assembly general at Center Pompidou, HEAD-Genève, has chosen to relay and to give visual form to the warning scientists to humanity: second warning. Launched in November 2017 by 15’000 scientist from 185 countries, including many Nobel Prizes, ans published in the journal BioScience then in the major daily newpaper in the world, the warning of the scientists has humanity alerts on the environmental state of Earth. It denounces the devastation of the worl nature and risk that humanity deteriorates the ecosystems beyond their ability to sustain the fabric of life. It challenges decision makers and political leaders urging them to do everything to stop the ongoing destruction. Beyond a set of alarming findings. it offers solutions to try to preserve our planet ant it’s biofiversity. It recommends as soon as possible to reorient the economy, to review the exchanges and international relations, to modify collective and individual behavor, etc. It solemnly proclaims: to avoid widespread misery and catastophic loss of biodiversity, humanity must adopt an alternative more environmentally sustainable than the practivethat is today. A first warning had been sent to humanity by more than 1’700 researchers on the occasion of the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro on 1992, already pointing out many perils which for the most part worsened, and sounding the alarm: the beings humans and the natural world are on a trajectory of collision. A quarter of a century later, the trajectory unfortunately did not deviate.”
Michel Wlassikoff, Avertissement à l’humanité, mai 2018
This Workshop was given by Michel Wlassikoff in 2018 and HEAD-Genève student’s fully resumes warning from scientists to humanity. For illustrate this crucial text, students also produced visuals based on themes defined by the petitioners. They thus creates emergency images proclaming that in matters of the environment the irreparable is about to happen. These visuals are offered to visitors at the Center Pompidou in Paris.
Project : exibition at Center Pompidou, Paris
Object : Handmade Posters
Date : 2018
Teachers : Michel Wlassikoff