Gasometer Oberhausen – The fragile paradise
Credit: DLR (CC-BY 3.0).
With one million visitors, the exhibition "The Fragile Paradise" in the Oberhausen Gasometer is one of the most successful exhibitions in Germany. The highlight of the exhibition is the Earth Sculpture, which EOC staff brought to life with animations based on earth observation data.
The globe with a diameter of 20 meters is the unique selling point of the exhibition. In the 100-meter-high airspace, the spectacular globe floats freely above the heads of the public and, as an animated projection, creates a total work of art. On the floors below, 200 award-winning photographs document the rapidly progressing climate change and its consequences - for humans and animals. 20 specially produced thematic globes provide insight into the possibilities of earth observation to observe and understand global change, as well as to plan and control countermeasures.
The 15-minute animation for the globe was created at the EOC. 13 projectors cover an area the size of two tennis courts. With 72 million pixels and sixty frames per second, the spatial and temporal resolution exceeds a modern digital cinema many times over. The animation visualizes the Earth's ecosystem in fast motion and ends with a depiction of the anthropocene: an earth on which dense air and shipping traffic make it obvious how much man has become the shaping element in this fragile paradise.
The earth sculpture can be seen at the Oberhausen Gasometer until November 26 this year.