Hackaton winning concept:

Climeline visually shows the impact of landscape and climate change throughout the years.

Hackaton winning concept:

Climeline visually shows the impact of landscape and climate change throughout the years.

Domain

Concept design

Client(s)

NPO, VPRO Medialab

My role

UX Designer, UI Designer

Project duration

2 days

Team (5)

(3x) BNNVARA innovation strategists, Visual designer, Stefan van Brummelen

Domain

Social design

Hackathon

Problem statement

The VPROLab/Society 5.0 hackathon challenges design professionals to consider how AI can sustain us.


How can public broadcasters address the challenge of sustainability by reducing the ecological footprint, and what role can artificial intelligence play in supporting this transition?

As team we came up with a concept for a web application that visually shows the impact of landscape and climate change throughout the years (as a timeline).

Concept development

Speculative design

Users of the app can select a territory in The Netherlands or in one of the Dutch ex-colonies. They are presented with a time-lapse video of the selected location made out of paintings, archival photos and videos, satellite images, and Google street-view that show how much the landscape has changed over the years.

At the end of the video, they answer questions regarding policies that affect the climate. Based on these answers, the app will generate an AI image of how that location will be impacted by the users' stance in the future. It can depict either a green, utopian future, a destructive, grey, dystopian future or a solarpunk.

utopian future

dystopian future

solarpunk

Deliver

Outcome & impact

Climeline has been selected by the NPO jury as the winning idea for the VPROLab/Society 5.0 hackathon. Elements of this concept will be further developed for future projects.

Design portfolio - Stefan van Brummelen