What world do you want to live in?

Data Visualization | Public Art Installation

In our world of ongoing strife, finding moments of optimism about the future can be difficult. Our generation is inheriting a world that is ripe with systemic inequalities, environmental disasters, and conflict. Inspired by Yoko Ono’s Wish Tree, we created a public installation that manifests our collective aspirations as a living reminder that we have power and agency over our future. An offering of hope as nature reemerges from dormancy.

We collected responses from friends all over the world, asking them what world they would want to live in. We then translated those responses into a color-coded knot system installed at the Marsha P Johnson State Park in Greenpoint. We hope the work will become part of the living, breathing landscape and will be embraced by the community as its threads weave together the hopes of a generation.

This installation is a collective work by designers Chang Long, Jiaze Mi, Maulika K Hegde, and Maria Alexia Platia.