Length: 1 min 25 sec. Production country: U.S. Production date: May 2025 Original format: Full HD Video Aspect ratio: 16:9. Screening format: Full HD Video/ AR. Original Title: "Hands and wind". To watch the animation in AR: download the Bepart app with your phone or tablet (available on Apple store and Google Play) and point to the image above.
This is one of the two animations in AR (Augmented Reality) created for the ELEMENTs pilot project in partnership with the University of Waterloo, Canada, and BEPART in Milano, Italy. Hand-drawn on recycled paper and composited with video in After Effects.
A team of researchers and artists launched a new pilot experimental project using field research data on community disaster risk and strategies to explore visualizations of possible futures using digital design and augmented reality, using the four elements of water, earth, air and fire and their extreme expressions in our natural environment: floods, mudslides, hurricanes and forest fires. The pilot explores different facets of transformation due to global environmental change and extreme weather events. This project merges science and art to mobilize knowledge and find new avenues to work with communities in advancing sustainability and resilience building goals.
The pilot project will be officially presented at the 8th Session of theGlobal Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction conference in Geneva, Switzerland, June 2-8, 2025.
ELEMENTs team:
Dr. Jose DiBella , researcher Climate and Disaster Risk Reduction, TRANSFORM, Waterloo, Canada
Giovanni Franchina, Art Curator, BEPART Public Imagination Movement, Milan, Italy
Gianluca Abbate, Artist and Film Director, Professor Institute of Fine Arts, Rome, Italy
Sandro Del Rosario, Artist and Assistant Professor Arizona State University, Phoenix, USA
ELEMENTs team:
Dr. Jose DiBella , researcher Climate and Disaster Risk Reduction, TRANSFORM, Waterloo, Canada
Giovanni Franchina, Art Curator, BEPART Public Imagination Movement, Milan, Italy
Gianluca Abbate, Artist and Film Director, Professor Institute of Fine Arts, Rome, Italy
Sandro Del Rosario, Artist and Assistant Professor Arizona State University, Phoenix, USA
Length: 59 sec. Production country: U.S. Production date: May 2025 Original format: Full HD Video Aspect ratio: 16:9. Screening format: Full HD Video/ AR. Original Title: "Hands and fire". To watch the animation in AR: download the Bepart app with your phone or tablet (available on Apple store and Google Play) and point to the image above.
This is the second animation in AR (Augmented Reality) created for the ELEMENTs pilot project in partnership with the University of Waterloo, Canada, and BEPART in Milano, Italy. Hand-drawn and digital drawings composited with videos in After Effects.