A public arts project in New England communities features signs that imagine the possible future effects of climate change to raise awareness about the issue.
The "Remembrance of Climate Futures" project has been installed in Durham, New Hampshire, and Essex, Massachusetts. It will also come to Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The signs are based on possibilities laid out in the scientific research that the towns have used to develop their climate plans and written from the perspective of someone in the 22nd century looking back.
A sign, part of a public design installation by artist Thomas Starr, is displayed on a light pole outside town hall in Durham, N.H., Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019. Starr, a graphic and information design professor from Boston's Northeastern University, created the project to address possible effects of climate change. (AP PhotoCharles Krupa)
Inspired by historical markers, the signs detail events like rising sea levels and an explosion of ticks that have yet to happen.
Artist Thomas Starr poses next to a sign, part of a public design installation, on the banks of the Oyster River in Durham, N.H., Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019. Starr, a graphic and information design professor from Boston's Northeastern University, created the project to address possible effects of climate change. (AP PhotoCharles Krupa)
A sign, part of a public design installation by artist Thomas Starr, is displayed under oak trees along the banks of Mill Pond in Durham, N.H., Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019. Starr, a graphic and information design professor from Boston's Northeastern University, created the project to address possible effects of climate change. (AP PhotoCharles Krupa)
Artist Thomas Starr holds sign printouts, part of a public design installation, on the banks of the Oyster River in Durham, N.H., Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019. Starr, a graphic and information design professor from Boston's Northeastern University, created the project to address possible effects of climate change. (AP PhotoCharles Krupa)