The Earth Heels over Head
Change your perspective
As a reminder to take better care of Space Ship Earth, Blueturn will provide projections of the Earth in rotation in various locations during the World Social Forum 2016 in Montreal this week.
To capture minds and encourage a constructive dialogue between the North and the South, Blueturn will flip the NASA/DSCOVR images upside-down this week.
Past the initial feeling of disorientation, the change of perspective will get your mind ticking. Is Africa really that big? Where has North America gone? Is it that cool to feel on “top of the world”? How about feeling home “within” the world? A powerful, symbolic and though provoking visual message.
About Blueturn:
When he is off the clock as an energy expert, Blueturn’s founder Jean-Pierre Goux he is a novelist and a poet with a sweet spot for science and technology. His mission is to spread this unique view of Earth across all possible screens and enable the next stage of planetary consciousness.
About the World Social Forum 2016
Montreal will make history this week as host of the World Social Forum 2016. World Social Forums offer an open space for the plural society to explore and promote alternative answers to world economic problems in opposition to the World Economic Forum. For the first time ever, the World Social Forum 2016 will be held in a developed country.
Co-coordinators Carminda Mac Lorin and Raphael Canet won Montreal’s bid with an audacious pitch: suffering and inequalities are not just a thing of the South + it’s about time we switch the narrative from protest to solutions + with its creative, open and artistic vibe, Montreal may very well offer the perfect environment to foster a shift of narratives and focus on the hatching of new creative ways forward.
Thousands of change-makers are flying in from over 120 countries to take part in over 1000 solution seeking workshops, various cultural activities and 22 keynote conferences with the likes of Canadian activist Naomi Klein, Italien economist Ricardo Petrella, French philosopher Edgar Morin, Bolivian Vice-President Álvaro García Linera and McGill University management professor Henry Mintzberg.
If you are in Montreal or within driving distance (Hello New York, Boston, Toronto, Ottawa, Quebec City…), you should seriously consider attending. As Henry Mintzberg recently put it: “We promise you a low conference fee: at $40 it comes to .00056 that of Davos (finally a chance to join the 0.1 per cent!). We can also guarantee a lot more fun… Who knows, we might even move the Earth!”
