Beyond Digital: Our Environmental Footprints

21.09.2022 - 25.09.2022

This exhibition invites you to take a journey through the environmental
impacts of digital technology. It follows the life cycle of a smartphone
and the ecological impact induced at each stage of this journey. Of course,
it is not all doom and gloom and solutions exist. This is why this
exhibition is designed with a practical solutions corner, to raise
awareness of these issues so that we can all reflect, at our level, on our
digital practices, and act accordingly. The aim is to make digital
technology greener: for the planet, for the future.

The exhibition consists of a series of educational panels aimed at
understanding, step by step, all the environmental consequences of digital
technology. A journey around the world, which highlights industrial
practices that are not very virtuous, and sometimes scandalous: child
labour, civil conflicts, systematic pollution (of the air, water, soil) and
the destruction of ecosystems.

These explanations are accompanied by a range of resources, indicated by QR
codes affixed to the panels, in order to extend certain aspects of these
issues through videos, articles and multimedia resources.

Finally, the exhibition is built around three photographic series by the
artist Kai Löffelbein, from his work “CTRL-X: a topography of electronic
waste“. A journey to Ghana, India and China, which visually provide tangible proof,
if any were needed, of the environmental consequences of the digital
development of our societies.

This exhibition was prepared by the French Institute of Estonia, in
collaboration with the Green IT Collective in France.