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YEAR 2180 : Featured in the Weather Channel’s “pattrn Plays”
What “would happen if the world hits 4°C warming? That’s the premise behind the upcoming game, Year 2180. New York, Moscow, Johannesburg, and other cities around the globe face apocalyptic conditions. But a tough group of survivors are working to bring Earth back from the brink. Can they succeed? Heather Zons tests her luck in…
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2023 Garden Futures Summit
2023 Garden Futures Summit at the New York Botanical Garden! Braved flash flooding on the FDR up to the Bronx to present on the Environment panel along with moderator Edwina von Gal and fellow panelists Horatio Joyce, Jeff Lorenz and Rebecca McMackin at this incredible event sponsored by the Garden Conservancy. Thanks so much to…
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Market Place of the Future 2023
Thanks to the entire team @studiotekadesign and everyone who made it out to the @marketplaceofthefuture on Friday to close out Climate Week in NYC! We showed the latest developments to the demo for Year 2180, our immersive climate survival game full of green tech and strategies based on my book, 2100: A Dystopian Utopia—The City After Climate Change. We…
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The Guardian Live
Thanks so much to @guardian for the invite to participate in such a fantastic and solutions-oriented panel discussion at @sohohouse with moderator and Guardian Seascape editor Chris Michaels and fellow panelists Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson @ayanaeliza of @urbanoceanlab and Amy Chester of @rebuildbydesign Walked home feeling truly energized. There’s a lot of important and meaningful…
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kicked off the Fall 2023 lecture series at Jefferson U
Very honored to have kicked off the Fall 2023 lecture series at Jefferson U in Philly with Surviving Climate: Solutions from the Year 2180! Thanks go out to Assoc. Provost Susan Frosten, Dean Barbara Klinkhammer, and professors Grace Ong Yan and Andrew Hart, of @cabe_jefferson for their gracious invite and for a very engaging discussion…
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Student Work From Penn Envisioning Climate Seminar, Spring 2022!
ENVISIONING CLIMATE KEVIN_ALAN Troll Antarctica is currently a large research station. The annual average temperature is −25 °C (−13 °F), with the summer temperature able to reach about 0 °C (32 °F) and the lowest during the winter at −50 °C (−58 °F). Troll is also susceptible to storms which makes outdoor activities impossible.Strong and…
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Vanessa Keith Featured in Unity Developers Blog: Can Virtual Reality Save the Planet?
“… the use of VR means a major force as a training tool and to immerse people in the beauty of the planet and the climate issues that it faces, and one of the best ways, it seems, is to involve as many people as possible in a Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing game (MMORPG) that…
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Me, you, and the Metaverse: Vanessa Keith of Studioteka Featured in Global Landscapes Forum
“Keith emphasizes the importance of engagement as this particular technology takes shape. “I don’t think the metaverse belongs to Facebook; I think it belongs to all of us,” she says. “And if enough of us who have a positive vision for the future get involved, then it’s not going to be a hellscape. It’s at…
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The New Frontier of Climate Change Storytelling: Vanessa Keith a Panelist at the 30th Annual DCEFF!
It was an honor to speak at the 30th annual DC Environmental Film Festival. The panel, moderated by Emmy award-winning documentary filmmaker Katerina Cizek, explores new storytelling technologies that reimagine and re-envision how we view and engage with climate change. It was a pleasure sharing our 2180VR work alongside Winslow Porter and Milica Zec, the…
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Studioteka’s 2180 VR Cities and an Interview with Vanessa Featured on Netflix, ‘The Future Of’!
A bright new future full of amazing potential is ours for the taking, so what are we waiting for? ‘The Future Of’ a new documentary series by Netflix, The Verge, and Vox Media premieres next week. An interview with Studioteka Principal Vanessa Keith, as well as our virtual reality work developing the exciting cities of…