SALEM, Mass. (WBZ NewsRadio) — At the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass., a new exhibit called “Our Time on Earth” immerses visitors in a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary display exploring the relationship between humans, the planet and its other inhabitants.
The Peabody Essex Museum’s Director of the Art and Nature Center Jane Winchell explained the ideas behind "Our Time on Earth." “This exhibit is a creative and imaginative journey into the future, exploring our relationship as shared beings with other species on the planet."
The exhibit comes from the Barbican Centre in London, and it features installations from artists, designers, scientists, technologists and changemakers from across 12 countries collaborating on a positive vision of the future of Earth.
The exhibit invites visitors "to imagine our ideal future world" while exploring the artworks' structures and designs sourced from biodegradable, sustainable materials to minimize their carbon footprint.
The exhibit is supported by Climate Culture Boston, a national initiative that aims to shift Americans' understanding of climate change and help them take climate action.
Frank Lowenstein is the senior director of Climate Culture Boston, which is a program under the organization Rare, a global nonprofit committed to creating social change for people and nature.
“This exhibit is a creative response to the climate crisis, to the chaos that many of us are feeling," said Lowenstein.
He explained that the exhibit is a potential positive environmental vision for the future, and “that potential vision requires us to rethink our relationship to each other, our relationship to nature, our relationship to joy and happiness and to emotions.”
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The Peabody Essex Museum's website invites visitors to dive into their interactive display. "Walk up to a table set for dinner, but imagine the guests include a fox and a wasp. Plunge into a virtual ocean with magnified plankton, and peer through the layers of a tree to experience the microscopic foundations of life."
"Our Time on Earth" is on view until June 9.
WBZ NewsRadio's Carl Stevens (@CarlWBZ) reports.
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