Last updated: November 4, 2024
Talks & Multimedia Presentations
Over the past decade and a half, we have been dedicated to crafting a myriad of top-tier visual presentations tailored to various audiences, including young people, the general public, and decision-makers. Originating from our early work visualizing planetary environments through illustrations for talks and presentations on the biosphere and the Universe, these captivating presentations have consistently revolved around pressing issues and thought-provoking topics such as global warming, the biodiversity crisis, the expansive narrative of Big History, and the transformation of cultural norms and values.
Planet & Anthropocene
Climate & Habitability
Biodiversity & Culture
History & Origins
Space & Cosmos
Disclaimer*: Copyrighted material on this page, such as Disney-Pixar’s* WALL-E™, Coruscant (Star Wars™) and Pandora (Avatar™) constitute a ‘fair use’ as provided by Section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C Code §107, these images are displayed because of their relevance within popular culture and with regard to our educational mission, which is to promote a global understanding of the great socioecological issues of our time.
Globaia has delivered visual presentations to audiences ranging from primary school students to heads of state at the United Nations, Davos, and TED -- making its body of work one of the most broadly disseminated sets of planetary visualisations in the world.
The Overview Effect -- the cognitive shift astronauts experience when seeing Earth from space -- was first named by Frank White in 1987, and Globaia's presentations explicitly aim to induce a ground-level analogue of this experience through data-rich, emotionally resonant imagery.
Big History, one of the recurring themes in Globaia's talks, compresses the entire 13.8-billion-year cosmic narrative into a framework that reveals a striking pattern: complexity increases over time, but each new threshold of complexity -- stars, life, consciousness -- is more fragile than the last.
The Earth Charter, referenced on this page, was drafted over a decade of intercultural dialogue involving thousands of individuals and organisations from 78 countries, making it one of the most participatory ethical documents ever produced -- a planetary consensus statement on values.
Globaia's talk catalogues span topics from black holes to bushmeat markets, reflecting a conviction that planetary literacy requires not siloed expertise but the ability to perceive connections -- between cosmology and conservation, between volcanoes and civilisational collapse, between archaeology and the Anthropocene.