Eco[logical] ORIGAMI – RED LIST –
エコ[ロジカル］おりがみ – RED LIST –
Eco[logical] ORIGAMIは、国際自然保護連合（International Union for the Conservation of Nature）による「絶滅危惧種レッドリスト™」に関する研究レポート（IUCN 2009年発表）に触発され、その社会的課題を「グラフィック折り紙」を用いて表現したものです。「ホッキョクグマだけじゃない」とサブタイトルのついたこのレポートは、気候変動（もしくは地球温暖化）の影響を受けた代表的な10種の動植物を取り上げ、生態系の変化と個体数減少の原因を紹介しています。そこから見えてくるのは、私たちの日常生活との深い関り。決して遠く知らない国や地域の出来事ではなく、我がこととして捉えるべき問題提起でもあります。
一枚の小さな正方形の折り紙は、複雑な「いま」を表していると同時に、未来に向けた設計図でもあります。ひとつひとつ折り進めていった先に立ち上がる造形は、私たちが作る「未来」です。ひとりひとりの力は小さいけれど、どんな未来に向かっていくかを考え、行動する。そうした気づきへのプロセスをデザインしたものです。
※本プロジェクトは、2010年にイギリス・ケンブリッジのIUCNを訪問し、レポート執筆者からの評価と公認を得て展開をしています。
https://portals.iucn.org/library/sites/library/files/documents/2009-051.pdf
More than just the Polar Bear
ホッキョクグマだけじゃない
RED LIST OF THREATENED SPECIES ™, SPECIES AND CLIMATE CHANGE: MORE THAN JUST THE POLAR BEAR (IUCN 2009)
Eco[logical] ORIGAMI was inspired by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature(IUCN)’s report, Red list of threatened Species ™, Species and Climate Change: More than just the Polar Bear, which was released in 2009.
The Polar Bear has come to symbolize the impacts of climate change on the natural world. But it is only one of a multitude of species affected, and many of these are also well-known, much-loved and important to people. This report presents 10 new climate change flagship species, chosen to represent the impact that climate change is likely to have on land and in our oceans and rivers. We cover some of the existing and anticipated threats to these 10 well-known species. They illustrate some of the many and varied ways that climate change impacts different regions of the world, from African deserts to the polar ice-caps. We hope these species can help to share the Polar Bear’s burden in representing the effects of climate change on our natural world, and the millions of species with whom we share the planet.….
Red list of threatened Species ™, Species and Climate Change: More than just the Polar Bear (IUCN 2009)
Wendy Foden: Programme Officer – Climate Change, IUCN Species Programme
It is easy to say “Save the earth, save the polar bear”, on the other hand we have no awareness of eco-friendly efforts in our daily life. This project started from questions that just what’s around us, what’s next to us in our everyday life may be actually related to something that exist very far away like a polar bear. Therefore Eco[logical] Origami is an attempt to make people consider Climate Change a matter of concern to oneself.
Moreover, when we share an idea of ecological sustainability, it is important that locally specific wisdom that you all carry is somehow shared at the global level. So for me, it is a metaphor by combining a Japanese traditional art Origami that is very local specific in Japan with more contemporary art form, a graphic art.
Eco[logical] ORIGAMI titled Red List was originally designed for a cultural session of a youth conference for environment and sustainable society, titled Eco[logical], organised by ASEF Unviersity Alumni Network, in Tokyo in 2010. The project title Eco[logical] ORIGAMI comes from the conference.