Elephant in the Room
Reimagining Museums for Climate Action, Glasgow Science Centre during COP26, 2021
Project Team:
Rania Ghosn + El Hadi Jazairy
Monica Hutton, Anhong Li
Donna Haraway (Narrator)
Elephant in the Room is a speculative ecofeminist fable for the climate crisis. It addresses the elephant in the room — the climate emergency — by telling the story of one elephant who takes action against environmental injustice. The African Elephant Matriarch, one of the famous taxidermy dioramas of the American Museum of Natural History in New York, comes to life and storms out of the museum to stampede through the streets and protest patriarchy and networks of fossil-fuel funding. The 6-minute fable is written and visualized by DESIGN EARTH and narrated, in rhyming verse, by Donna Haraway. It was screened at the Glasgow Science Centre during the 26th UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in November 2021.
(c) 2021