Earth Fortunes

Earth Fortunes is a conceived of as an exploratory journey through some of the ways energy systems affect our lives. If you are excited, worried, or unsure about future energy systems, Earth Fortunes allows you to ‘foretell’ the planet’s future using tarot cards outfitted with augmented reality (AR) visualization informed by the climate science and scientific climate modelling. 

When activated as a role playing game, the character of the fortune teller can lay out the tarot deck and then point a smart phone at the centre cards to make holographic visualizations appear. They can then use those augmented reality images to racount and bring to life the story of five different Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs). 

The Augmented Reality visualizations linked to the tarot cards were created using the Global Change Analysis Model (GCAM), developed by the Joint Global Change Research Institute, and a set of long-term scenarios, otherwise known as the Shared Socio-economic Pathways (SSP), to model possible socio-economic and environmental futures. 

The graphs and values reported in this kit were developed by consulting with a computer model called GCAM: the Global Change Analysis Model. To learn a bit more about how GCAM informed the Earth Fortunes project, please click this link.