Earth Bits - Sensing the Planetary, the installation dedicated to the current climate emergency, designed and built by the Italian studio Dotdotdot, thanks to the scientific support of ESA (European Space Agency), opens at Maat - Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology in Lisbon. IEA (International Energy Agency) and EDP Innovation (Energias de Portugal), EDP Sustainability.

Telling the climate emergency in a – really – effective way, to generate individual and collective awareness, is always very difficult. Starting from the belief that if people could interact, understand and remember better, Dotdotdot has developed multimedia installations, digital wallpaper, data visualization and an interactive console to allow museum visitors to touch climate change, giving life to data.

Science, culture and design come together in an immersive journey that involves the public in a journey guided by data transformed into interactive installations, dataviz, digital wallpaper, animated videos designed to generate awareness and critical thinking regarding the environmental impact of their behavior, even newspapers, on the entire planet. A multisensory experience where multimedia and transmedia contents become emotional and didactic material, allowing both an in-depth use and an immediate understanding of the complex issues addressed.

The experience of Earth Bits - Sensing the Planetary gives the visitor back a series of scientific evidence on the environmental crisis and the centrality of energy consumption caused by man through a scenario of individual and collective responsibility, to arrive at a global and cosmological vision.

Starting from an analysis of the current environmental situation and from the recognition that energy has now become an indispensable element to feed our lifestyle, the various installations show, thanks to the re-elaboration of objective data, how much energy needs are caused by our actions daily life is closely linked to the rapid depletion of fundamental resources for the Earth's ecosystem.

In a historical moment determined by a great attention and sensitivity on a global level on the themes of climate change and the critical use of resources, the Earth Bits - Sensing the Planetary exhibition offers a new approach to the theme thanks to the narrative peculiarities of interaction design, stimulating in the public new food for thought to gain greater awareness of their activities and promote a more sustainable lifestyle.

The Earth Bits - Sensing the Planetar exhibition is part of maat Explorations, the new schedule of exhibitions, educational activities and public programs conceived by the Portuguese museum to investigate, through different points of view, the most current issues related to the environmental transformation that are profoundly conditioning the future of the planet.

Led by the new director Beatrice Leanza, the maat has relied on the multidisciplinary skills of the Dotdotdot studio –born in Milan in 2004, among the first in Italy to operate in the field of Interaction Design –to investigate in an innovative way the various anthropogenic phenomena that underlie the climate crisis, starting with the decoding and simplification of complex scientific data.