Following a successful run at East London’s Truman Brewery, the Future London exhibition has relocated to the Science Museum. But hurry, its only running for a few days…
London residents have been experiencing first hand the struggles of and solutions to climate change through this major exhibition and installation.
The Future London - Footprints of a Generation installation marks the launch of London’s bid to reduce its environmental footprint in the run-up to the 2012 Olympic Games, which organisers hope will be the greenest in history.
The exhibition takes something of a stick-and-carrot approach, with the public being shown how their actions can have a profound negative impact on the local and global environment, before offering solutions that show the simple things we can all do to reduce the damage done.
This approach is followed through six areas themed around the most significant issues facing the environment today. Included are transport, food (and how it reaches the consumer), the impact of building and energy consumption, and what is being done to minimise the “footprint” of the 2012 Olympics on the environment.
Organisers have hinted at what those who attend the exhibition can expect. The transport area will “shock” visitors by sending them through a giant, hot, smelly, smoke-filled exhaust pipe lined with screens that detail the severe impact motor transport has on the environment.
Then once the audience have been ejected from the exhaust into the environment, as it were, they’ll be presented with information about environmentally friendly methods of transport.
Future London - Footprints of a Generation runs at the Science Museum, South Kensington until Sunday 1st October. Entry is free and if you visit their website (click link below) you can be in with a chance of winning a £500 mountain bike.
Click here for Footprints of a Generation website