Weather Glass or Crystal Ball?

"Land is not seen as a mere asset, it is an extension of people's identity and a common thread that connects the inhabitants of Longyearbyen to their heritage," observed spatial designer and architect Svitlana Lavrenchuk during her field trip to Spitsbergen. In this article, she explores the influence of anthropogenic activities and colonial geopolitical violence on the weather.

Daniel Urey is co-founder and director of LABLAB, a think tank dedicated to the environmental and social aspects of spatial change in the North and Baltic Sea region. He explains why weather, cloud services and landscapes appear to us as interlinked and why we should be aware of the connection between climate crisis and weather data like weather forecasting.