Through art, science and narratives, we inspire a ‘big picture’ understanding of our home planet.
A public benefit organization, GLOBAÏA illuminates critical global issues and reveals pathways for action.
Thanks for visiting us!
Explore some of our milestones
Our film Welcome to the Anthropocene opened the Rio+20 UN Earth Summit.
We’ve illustrated a book by Johan Rockström and Owen Gaffney, with a foreword by Greta Thunberg.
And created data-driven visualisations for a documentary on Netflix, narrated by Sir David Attenborough.
We have worked extensively on the influential Planetary Boundaries framework, with the Stockholm Resilience Centre.
We are co-authors of the Global Safety Net framework published in Science Advances.
Our ever-growing collection of planetary visualisations is intended as tools to think & feel globally.
National Geographic has used our artworks for several of their atlases.
We have directed other shorts too, on Climate Habitability, the Climate Crisis and Freshwater.
We’ve also released An Urbanizing Planet, narrated by Ed Norton.
Feel free to browse our projects.
Our work is mainly focused on the exploration of Four Thematic Pillars:
The Anthropocene
Humanity is living through a unique era of Earth’s history—one of our own making—the Anthropocene. The rise of our industrial civilization has transformed the Earth system in profound ways. Serving as your guide to the present and future, Globaïa visualizes a world in change.
2050 & Beyond
In an age of deep injustice and uncertainties, our fears are metabolized as gloomy narratives about the future. All hope should not be lost however, on the contrary. Several initiatives. local and global, are setting pathways towards a sustainable world for all on a safe, stable and resilient planet. Globaïa is contributing to some of them.
Big History
Big History tells the story of the Cosmos, Earth, Life and Humanity as they evolve and unfold through space, time and emerging complexity. This is a universal and transcultural thinking framework with a significant potential to strengthen a sense of global citizenship. We have created numerous presentations to communicate various facets of this gigantic story.
The Ecosphere
What allows Earth to host its cosmic jewel, the Biosphere? The concept of habitability is central and is defining our collective imprint on the Earth System as we are rendering it less inhabitable. Ecosphere Education is about enhancing ecoliteracy and geoliteracy among youth, general public and policymakers. This ought to be mainstream knowledge.
(Coming soon)
Envisioning Pathways to an
Earth-Caring Civilisation.
Our productions and artworks have been seen by millions in numerous venues around the world.
