Flip the Earth| The Art of It All

The Art of It All

What have you learned about yourself or the world as a result of living through the COVID-19 pandemic? Your challenge is to express your experience of living through this historic time through a work of art.

The Earth in your hands - A Global Flipbook Project

Summary

The idea of this project is to create awareness of global changes in the environment and climate from a more tangible perspective.Since COVID-19 started, we have dramatically experienced transformations in our daily lives. These transformations have naturally impacted our planet earth. Thanks to NASA's Earth Observatory, we can access and compare data collected during the pandemic, and over the past 20 years. I decided to express this data as an art project in the form of a flipbook.

How I Addressed This Challenge

In the current times, where most of the content that we consume is placed on screens, I wanted to revitalize the flipbook as a magical object to share stories.

With this global flipbook project, I want to share my experience during the times of the pandemic and how it helped me to relieve stressful psychological conditions during the quarantine.

How I Developed This Project

Creating and sharing flipbooks with the people I love is one of the things that I enjoy the most. However, as a UX/UI Designer, I spend most of the day looking at screens. This is why I decided to use this opportunity to briefly step out of my laptop and to create a flipbook to share it with the world.

I am deeply concerned about how global issues like COVID-19 and climate change influence the way we live. Therefore my approach was to showcase these changes in an interactive way.

The data that I use came from the Earth Observatory. I found this quite interesting because I could see and compare data related to climate aspects, such as the Atmosphere, Heat, Land, and Water. I used maps from the Vegetation Index and the Active Fires from the past 10 years because I found this relation very powerful. 

The idea is that anyone interested in creating their own flipbook can access the open data and use the template that I created. 

The software that I used is the following:

  • VLC Player
  • Adobe Suite (Photoshop, InDesign)
  • iMovie
Project Demo

Visit my Twitter account to see the images of the flipbook: 

Visit my Youtube Channel to see the demo of the flipbooks:

Data & Resources

Global Maps from the Earth Observatory:

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/global-maps

Tags
#climatechange #environmentalimpact #covid-19 #vegetationindex #activefires
Global Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Global Judging process.