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Earth Theatre with 12-metre round well projecting the planet

Revolution Earth

Kerkrade, Netherlands

Climate education you play, not endure.

Since December 2023, Revolution Earth has welcomed families at the Discovery Museum in Kerkrade. It treats the climate crisis not as a lecture but as a place you enter, play through, and leave changed. An experience for teenagers and the adults beside them, built on one idea: the right choices are still within reach today.

What we built

Visitors move through the three industrial revolutions on projected canvases, then meet four teenagers living 70 years into a future that went wrong. In the Earth Theatre, a 12-meter round well projects a film of the planet as it is now, zooming in on the damage. Then three games hand the future back to the room. Every choice reshapes the landscape overhead, and a tree of light at the centre pulses in response, brighter the more people work together. It ends in a mirrored infinity room, with a spoken-word film by Justin Samgar and the quiet point underneath all of it: change is still ours to make.

The challenge

Make the climate crisis something a family can act on, not just worry about. Teach without lecturing. Warn without leaving anyone hopeless.

You do not lecture a kid into caring about the planet. You hand them the controls and let them feel what changes.
TSC Project Team, Revolution Earth

Credits

COMMISSION & PRODUCTION

In collaboration with

Discovery Museum, Kerkrade NL

THE STORYTELLING COMPANY

Concept & Design

Concept, Design, Space Design, Motion Design, Light Design

Hardware & Millwork

Immersive Light Installation

Software

Creative Coding

Content Production

Production, Multimedia, Curation, 3D Video Mapping, Sound Design

PARTNERS

Sound

Julian Ganzer

Video

Jacques Wienicke