Vision & Mission

GLOBAÏA was founded in 2009 with a single conviction: the Earth is a story that has never been properly told. We make maps, timelines, and interactive visualizations that reveal the planet as it is — a living system, 4.5 billion years in the making, now being reshaped by one species in the span of a few generations.

We work at the intersection of science, art, and philosophy. Our aim is not merely to inform but to shift worldviews — the deep frames through which societies perceive their place on Earth and in the cosmos. What we cannot see, we cannot change. What we cannot feel, we will not protect.

As kosmographers*, we give form to the invisible: the deep-time rhythms of climate, the acceleration of human enterprise, the fragile boundaries that sustain life. We translate complexity into imagery that crosses language and culture — because a shared planet demands a shared way of seeing.

Our work explores four interwoven themes:

1. Big History — the evolution of the cosmos, Earth, life, and people;
2. The Ecosphere — Earth’s habitability and the systems that sustain it;
3. The Anthropocene — contemporary global change and its consequences;
4. Planetary Stewardship — pathways toward a regenerative future.

Through these lenses we create visual narratives for scientists, educators, filmmakers, and institutions — including as part of the ‘Third UN,’ the informal networks of researchers and civil-society organizations that shape global policy. Our work has reached audiences through Netflix, BBC, TED, and the scientific community, always in service of the same goal: making the state of the planet legible, felt, and impossible to ignore.

COSMOPHANY · Cultivating Consciousness in the Mesocosm

Cosmophany is the idea that civilizations are shaped by what they know of the world — and how they choose to represent it. It grounds societal development in observable reality: the structures, patterns, cycles, and phenomena that science reveals and art makes tangible. In this sense, every visualization we create is an act of cosmophany — an attempt to align how we live with what we know.

*A kosmographer, from the Greek kosmos (order, world) and graphia (writing, drawing), goes beyond traditional cosmography. It is an interdisciplinary practice that merges science, philosophy, and the arts to portray the known world as an interconnected, evolving, and aesthetically coherent whole.