Following up yesterday's post...the Montreal Petrofuture, reverse side.
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The Petrofuture series reimagines our memories, altering the tropes of nostalgia. These maps take on the promotions of petro-corporations, turn them around, depicting the ultimate consequences of car culture and the burning of fossil fuels.
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A vintage 1894 USGS map with 218’ of sea level rise—if all the world’s ice caps melted. I’ve also added modern hillshade to accentuate the hills and valleys.
This semester, I'm collaborating teaching a worldbuilding class at the USC School of Dramatic Arts.
I'll be showing the class techniques for creating fictional places from real geographies. I've cobbled together a few Venezuelan #tepuis to create an archipelago...this is the draft map.
It seems like an opportune time to repost this one. Here's a retrofuture sea level rise map for #CoachellaValley and #SaltonSea with 66m of sea level rise—if all the world’s ice caps melted.
Petrofuture map of Honolulu.
This shows an 1956 #Chevron gas station map base with 66m sea level rise...the highest level of sea rise estimated by the IPCC.