Reimagine Coral Reefs:
Climate Data as lived experience

Reimagining Coral Reefs: Climate Data as Lived Experience is a project developed in collaboration with Jason Lynch and Ben Williams at the Institute of Zoology ZSL London. 

​

Using the audio recordings and lidar photogrammetry of coral reefs captured from Indonesia, we have re-constructed these real-world coral habitats in virtual reality, creating an immersive, interactive and gamified virtual environment. Via virtual reality headsets and controllers, visitors can ‘dive’ amongst healthy, degraded and re-imagined coral reefs from both human and non- human perspectives. These virtual experiences are accompanied by a variety of physical and mixed reality artefacts co-created with design students and scientists, and we hope eventually, indigenous communities.

​

Our endeavour seeks to make meaningful changes to how climate data is represented in the public eye, and offer a powerful new tool in the communication of critical scientific data in general to a wider audience.