Fundația9, an NGO in Bucharest recently launched ‘One Minute Older’, a campaign to raise awareness of the impact plastic has on our lives, through art. One minute older is the winner of a grant from the ‘Climate of Change’ program, a European program run by a consortium that brings together 23 countries and 26 partner organizations and financed by the European Commission's Development Education and Awareness Program (DEAR).
The One Minute Older project proposes “an artistic perspective on sustainability, but also on the consumption of resources, and invites us to imagine a poetic-apocalyptic scenario in which we are swallowed by the mass of plastic that each of us gathers around us, a simulation – a manifesto of a possible seized and suffocated life in which we contemplate the beauty of a bag floating in the air.”
The project has 4 elements:
• Bags of Bags (September 30th – October 20th) - Thousands of plastic bags have been transformed into a participatory art installation that has been exhibited at the Rezidența9 cultural hub in Bucharest.
• One Minute Older Talks - These will bring together experts from different fields and explore how they relate to the theme of sustainability,
• One Minute Older Films - A selection of films about possible solutions to environmental problems faced by countries in Africa or Central America.
• Climate Petition – The organization aims to collect signatures for a petition launched by Climate of Change. The petition calls on European leaders to take urgent action to protect the environment and aims to collect over 100,000 signatures by November 2022, when the United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP27) takes place in Egypt. The signatures will be handed to the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, at COP27.
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Technology is a useful servant, but a dangerous master, it was rightly said. Electronic devices have grown into an inevitable part of our daily lives.
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