Presentation in Kiasma seminar room, Thursday 14th, 15:00-

Many important environmental decisions are made at home or work by each and every one of us, every day: Do I buy Finnish dairy cream or Indonesian coconut milk? Is it better for the environment of Helsinki if I ride a bike or take a tram? Should I move to the country and heat my house with firewood? These decisions are not always obvious and the options straightforward, which often leaves people feeling isolated and frustrated.

Dodo’s flash animation shows how the world looks from an environmentalist point of view. Ideas were collected from visitors to the www.dodo.org website. The animation compiles a story called “Happy Family” with three alternative storylines.

Alternative 1.
A Catastrophic Vision

The greed and short-sightedness of people’s actions cause enormous environmental catastrophes and eventually the destruction of all life. People are misled by their ideology of efficiency and ignore the needs of future generations and other living organisms. Indifference to the common good is rife and people’s lives are filled with anxiety and hurry. Material
possessions are the only acceptable measure of happiness and well-being. Wars over rapidly declining resources are fought all over the world.

Alternative 2:
A Happy End Vision

People’s awareness of the destructive nature of their lifestyle increases significantly all over the First World. The need to change the direction of development towards a more ecologically and socially sustainable model becomes a widely accepted notion. There’s a rise in environmentally friendly trends and many destructive habits, such as driving, become unfashionable.
A new sense of community is born. Sharing and caring become important guiding principles in people’s lives.

Alternative 3:
A Totally Far Out Vision

Mind rises above matter. Hate becomes love. Love turns into hate. Hate and love embrace. Instead of striving towards more and more material possessions, people aspire to gain spiritual tranquillity, through both construction and destruction. Let’s all kill for life and fight for peace.

Dodo is a dynamic, modern environmental organisation that avoids black-and-white views of the world. Dodo approaches environmental issues in an open-minded way, trying to find new perspectives. Dodo relies on the power of factual discussion.
Public events, discussion groups and projects are typical of Dodo.

Dodo will also present their NGOphotos.org project, an image bank for NGOs where all images are made available under Creative Commons licence.
Dodo.org - Visual Environmental Argumentation

www.dodo.org
www.ngophotos.org
www.creativecommons.org

Working group:
Tuuli Kaskinen
Sami Keto
Kirmo Kivelä
Jepa Leväsvirta
Aki Liuski
Hanna Lönngren
Aleksi Neuvonen
Tea Tönnov