College of Arts and Sciences Family Weekend

Using Animation to Compare the Climate Futures of Jakarta and The Netherlands

To begin this project, our team first became educated on the water story of the Netherlands and on the prior videos of the series, which established the historical context and the current situation for the Netherlands. After speaking to many educated Dutch researchers and engineers, our team started to discuss what topic of the next video would be. Many aspects of the Netherlands’ water story had already been explored, so our team decided to look at the Netherlands in a different role, one where they aimed to support an area with their vast experience with sea level rise and land subsidence, the area being Jakarta. Dutch engineers proposed a sea wall, the Great Garuda Sea Wall, but this plan placed commercial profits over the function of the wall itself, and it was quickly protested against by local communities that it would have displaced. To depict this story, our team spoke with many individuals experienced with this Sea Wall from both Jakarta and the Netherlands. Their input allowed us to improve our script and animations in order to promote this video to an audience of Dutch and Jakartans, and even the wider public. We strived to represent some of the complexities involved with Dutch climate adaptation strategy implementation through visual metaphors and bring the Poldergeist narrative to animated life, which we will continue to do bringing the project to completion.

PRESENTED BY
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
College of Arts & Sciences 2024
CO-PRESENTERS
Therese Jones - College of Arts & Sciences 2024
Advised By
Joshua Mosley
Professor of Fine Arts
Simon Richter
Department Chair, Germanic Languages and Literatures
PRESENTED BY
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
College of Arts & Sciences 2024
CO-PRESENTERS
Therese Jones - College of Arts & Sciences 2024
Advised By
Joshua Mosley
Professor of Fine Arts
Simon Richter
Department Chair, Germanic Languages and Literatures

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