The Sea Urchin in the Room

The small or hidden, unrevealed, and forgotten have been the priority in this project about how to make a climate issue more relatable to us individually. The acidification of the ocean is one, maybe less known, ecological issue, and as for many of the different changes in climate, it can be hard to relate to and understand what this really means. To get the whole picture of what is happening in the acidified ocean we need the pieces of the puzzles first, the small lives that are oh, so important for the marine ecosystem. The sea urchin gets, in this project, to represent the species that are affected by the acidification and thereby takes the role of an ambassador of the ocean. 

With the intersecting fields of science and art, ‘learning design’ and sustainability, this design project explores how one might design a tactile learning experience. The project and the physical design object, the sea urchin, are intended as a platform on which we can educate ourselves on fields that are outside our daily lives by seeking to reconnect to nonhuman species and replacing the systematic alienation to them as such.

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