Project Pressure
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Project Pressure is a charity with an ecological and climate focus. Their expressed mission is to create impactful projects that triangulating art, science and activism resulting in impactful actions on environmental issues. The global environmental charity was founded in 2008, with the mission of visualizing the climate crisis. Project Pressure uses art as a touchpoint to inspire action and behavioral change.[1][2][3] At the time, Project Pressure focused on work surrounding glacier mass loss.
Collaborating with a wide range of artists, and with partnerships such as NASA and the World Glacier Monitoring Service, Project Pressure's goal is to create and exhibit work aimed at engaging people emotionally, in order to incite climate action.[4]
Since 2008, they have conducted more than 30 expeditions, creating scientific artworks. These are brought together in Meltdown[5]—a museum exhibition that has been touring globally and has been regularly featured in The Guardian, BBC, CNN, Le Monde, Wired, and National Geographic.[citation needed] Meltdown has previously been shown at the Horniman Museum in London[6] and is in 2022 to be shown at the Jacopic Gallery[7] in Ljubljana and at Whirinaki Whare Taonga In New Zealand.[8][needs update]
In 2019, Project Pressure created Voices For The Future, an art piece projected and transmitted on the UN building in New York City that showcased the voices of six young climate activists, including Greta Thunberg.[9]
Since 2019, Project Pressure is moving on from their strong focus on glacier mass loss to a broader approach to ecological and climate issues.
Project Pressure was founded by the Danish explorer and photographer Klaus Thymann in 2008. Since then, Project Pressure has pioneered innovative technological strategies and forged partnerships with the World Glacier Monitoring Service and NASA. In 2011, Project Pressure was recognized as an official contributor to the Global Terrestrial Network for Glaciers.[10]
Glacier mass loss can be directly attributed to global temperature changes.[11] Glaciers are key indicators of climate change and the focus of the charity's visualizations. These are vital human stories, as glaciers provide water for billions of people and their crops, so their loss is not just a natural disaster, but the beginning of a humanitarian crisis.[12]