The Digital Biosphere
12 December 2021 – 13 February 2022
About the
exhibition
The Digital Biosphere was an immersive digital experience that was created for Compton Verney, in collaboration with their Youth Advisory Panel, by architectural designers Alex Fox and Eleanor Loasby. The installation focussed on understanding our biosphere, the planet Earth, and the dangers it faces due to climate change. Through the use of film and virtual reality, the installation engaged visitors with the radical changes our ecosystems face.
Focussing on present and near future crises of our planet; entomological loss and environmental degradation, the exhibited experience took the viewer through a timeline of a semi-fictional British landscape showing stages of environmental loss in a tangible time scale.
Projections in the space played out a cyclical experience of the landscape changing from a wondrous living, to a depleted dying environment.
Alex and Eleanor are young award-winning designers working in the Architecture industry. Both had recently completed Masters degrees in Architecture with Distinctions at prestigious London Universities. Their interests in film-making, photography and architecture were used to developed projects which tackle environmental loss and future solutions, raising awareness through their storytelling and digital representation.
About the
youth Advisory Panel
Compton Verney’s Youth Advisory Panel was made up on 8 young people aged 18-24 years, during 2021 they had been helping to shape ideas around how we engage, represent and support young people now and into the future.
Compton Verney would like to thank Charlie, Evan, Hope, Isabelle, Olivia, Sidal, Will and Christopher for their commitment and contribution to the project.
