Kids explore grown-up issues through hands-on activities
In 2015 at the initiative of the United Nations, countries adopted a set of 17 goals to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. Part of a new sustainable development agenda, each goal has specific targets to be achieved over the next 15 years. To prompt the public into action, Museon – the museum for science and culture in The Hague, the Netherlands – asked us to express these sustainable development goals in an inspiring motivational exhibition. Critical world problems can often appear abstract, particularly to a younger audience. One Planet challenges visitors to examine the sustainable development goals and come up with their own answers to the big questions.
Call to action
The 17 goals are conveyed in as many displays, which together encompass mankind’s greatest contemporary challenges. Developed in partnership with Bruns, the exhibition offers inspiring, tangible solutions for overcoming poverty, pollution and inequality, performing as a call to action for sustaining life on earth. From dramatic large-scale concepts to modest ideas that impact a single square-metre: One Planet makes clear that everyone has a part to play in overcoming world issues – and incites them to rise to the occasion.
Saving the earth, brought down to earth
Alongside documentary-style information presented in vlog format, stations explore grown-up issues through hands-on activities. A fishing game, for instance, teaches the importance of throwing back a catch to protect certain species. Another exhibit discusses recycling and the plastic-soup dilemma. After learning about the potential of waste as a material resource for new products – such as G-Star’s RAW for the Oceans clothing collection – kids could propose their own visions.
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