TY - JOUR A1 - Schneider, Birgit T1 - Burning worlds of cartography: a critical approach to climate cosmograms of the Anthropocene JF - Geo : geography and environment N2 - Climate science today makes use of a variety of red globes to explore and communicate findings. These transform the iconography which informs this image: the idealised, even mythical vision of the blue, vulnerable and perfect marble is impaired by the application of the colours yellow and red. Since only predictions that employ a lot of red seem to exist, spectators are confronted with the message that the future Earth that might turn out as envisaged here is undesirable. Here intuitively powerful narrations of the end of the world may connect. By employing methods of art history and visual analysis, and building on examples from current Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports and future scenario maps, this article explores how burning world images bear - intentionally or not - elements of horror and shock. My question explored here is as follows: should 'burning world' images be understood as a new and powerful cosmology? KW - cartography KW - visualisation KW - climate change KW - whole Earth images Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/geo2.27 SN - 2054-4049 VL - 3 PB - Wiley CY - Hoboken ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schneider, Birgit A1 - Walsh, Lynda T1 - The politics of zoom BT - Problems with downscaling climate visualizations JF - Geo: Geography and Environment N2 - Following the mandate in the Paris Agreement for signatories to provide “climate services” to their constituents, “downscaled” climate visualizations are proliferating. But the process of downscaling climate visualizations does not neutralize the political problems with their synoptic global sources—namely, their failure to empower communities to take action and their replication of neoliberal paradigms of globalization. In this study we examine these problems as they apply to interactive climate‐visualization platforms, which allow their users to localize global climate information to support local political action. By scrutinizing the political implications of the “zoom” tool from the perspective of media studies and rhetoric, we add to perspectives of cultural cartography on the issue of scaling from our fields. Namely, we break down the cinematic trope of “zooming” to reveal how it imports the political problems of synopticism to the level of individual communities. As a potential antidote to the politics of zoom, we recommend a downscaling strategy of connectivity, which associates rather than reduces situated views of climate to global ones. KW - climate change KW - climate services KW - climate visualization KW - connectivity KW - downscaling KW - spherical KW - synopticism KW - zoom Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/geo2.70 SN - 2054-4049 VL - 6 IS - 1 PB - Wiley-Blackwell CY - Hoboken ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schneider, Birgit T1 - Climate model simulation visualization from a visual studies perspective JF - Wiley interdisciplinary reviews : Climate change N2 - The article gives an overview on the visualization of climate model data simulation from a visual studies perspective. On one hand the question is raised of what it means culturally when global images are used to communicate scenarios of a changing climate future beyond the field of climate research itself. The product of this process is one of the most widespread icons of climate change, the image of the blue planet that has turned red. On the other hand insights into how these visualizations are designed in the studio of a computer designer are given. The focus here is on the way in which specific visualization software shapes images of a changing global climate. The article takes as its starting point the perspective of visual and media studies, because images have become so crucial in communicating research results of climate science and convincing policy agents and the public. What is special about scientific images depicting climate change is that they have implicitly also become political images. As today various actors and recipient groups are making use of pictures depicting climate change, the article concerns climate science, media studies, computer visualization, cultural studies, and politics alike. Y1 - 2012 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.162 SN - 1757-7780 VL - 3 IS - 2 SP - 185 EP - 193 PB - Wiley CY - Malden ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schneider, Birgit T1 - Berglinien im Vergleich BT - Bemerkungen zu einem klimageografischen Diagramm Alexander von Humboldts JF - HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International review for Humboldtian studies N2 - Der Artikel analysiert aus bildwissenschaftlicher und historischer Perspektive die unveröffentlichte Skizze zu einem Bergdiagramm aus dem handschriftlichen Nachlass Alexander von Humboldts. Das mehrfach beklebte Skizzenblatt stand im Zentrum klimageografischer Fragestellungen nach den Gründen für die weltweit unterschiedlich hohen Schneegrenzen in Gebirgen. Aufgrund des unfertigen, skizzenhaften Charakters des Diagramms lassen sich Fragen über den Forschungskontext des Diagramms, den epistemischen Stellenwert zeichnerischer Praktiken sowie über die heuristische Rolle der Berge und ihrer charakteristischen Profillinien in Humboldts Forschungen stellen. Gezeigt wird, wie das visuelle Denken und das Interesse Humboldts an neuen grafischen Methoden zu einer wichtigen Bedingung wurden, um die holistische Synopsis der Welt als ökologisches System erforschen und darstellen zu können. N2 - The article analyses from a visual studies and historical perspective the unpublished sketch of a mountain profile found among the handwritten papers of Alexander von Humboldt’s estate. The small sheet of sketches, with its pasted additions, was at the heart of climatic-geographic academic enquiry into the reasons for worldwide differences in the levels of mountain snow lines. The unfinished, sketchy nature of the diagramme raises questions about its research context, about the epistemic value of draughtsmanship practice and about the heuristic role of mountains and their characteristic profiles in Humboldt’s research. It becomes evident how Humboldt’s visual logic and his interest in new forms of graphics became important factors in investigation and depiction of the world as an ecological system. N2 - En el artículo se analizan los bocetos sin publicar de perspectivas históricas y de la ciencia de la imagen del diagrama montañoso de las obras póstumas escritas a mano de Alexander von Humboldt. La hoja de bocetos pegada de forma múltiple estaba situada en el centro de dudas geoclimatológicas por los fundamentos de los límites de nieve totalmente diferentes en las montañas de todo el mundo. A causa del carácter inacabado de los bocetos del diagrama, se cuestiona el contexto de investigación del diagrama, la importancia epistemológica de las prácticas gráficas y el papel heurístico de las montañas y sus característicos perfiles en las investigaciones de Humboldt. Se presenta el modo en que el pensamiento visual y el interés de Humboldt por nuevos métodos gráficos supone una condición importante para investigar y exponer la sinopsis holística del mundo en calidad de sistema ecológico. KW - Bergkunde KW - Bildwissenschaft KW - Handschriften KW - Klimageografie KW - Klimatologie KW - Skizzen Y1 - 2013 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-66745 SN - 1617-5239 SN - 2568-3543 VL - XIV IS - 26 SP - 27 EP - 44 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER -