Storytelling concept and project lead for a immersive map-based experience
How will climate change alter Switzerland’s landscape? In this immersive article, the reader travels along the Aare river in the year 2075 and explores how water supply and water demand change due to the increase in the earth’s surface temperature.
The story uses a 3D map to guide the reader along the river. The satellite images has been altered according to scientific data to portray how the landscape might look 50 years from now. At two locations, once in the alps and once in a forest, we dive down to the ground, allowing the reader to walk through the scenery. They peer down at a new lake where a glacier once stood and walk along the ridge of a changed forest. Data visualisations and geographic data overlayed on the map provide a larger scientific context to the journey.
The article shows how much might change, and provides insights into how early adaptation and decisive action could still make our future liveable.