With the expanded awareness on the climate emergency and the fear mongering by the media, the number of people suffering from eco-anxiety is radically increasing. People struggle to cope. The aim of this project is to explore game development in the field of climate emotions to introduce healthy coping mechanisms to activists. For this I established collaborations with eco-emotions researcher Panu Pihkala, climate activists and activist groups. The project resulted in a card game called Hope to Cope. In the process of developing the card game I did exploration such as workshops, interviews, participation in activist initiatives, personal exploration and more.

In the project "moving between futures" I explored through an interactive design exhibition and a performative event on the streets how design can be used to encourage and to reflect on ones own wishes and fears regarding the future in relation to the climate crisis which we are living and facing. Part of the exploration process were a story gathering workshop and engagement with activists. This is a project about you, me, us. About the total sum of being alive, feeling alive and breathing in reality. It is about a deep unconscious knowledge that we never learned to process and act upon. It is about listening first and taking action later, together. About understanding that we are alive at the same time, at the edge of no return. It is about the stories we tell each other when we dream and the ones we tell each other when we wake up screaming from a nightmare - the inbetween and the million, trillion directions we can decide to take from here. This project is about the climate disaster we are facing and how we need to find agency within ourselves together. We can still move between these futures.