The exhibition shows "London of the Future" - after climate changes

Foster's "Cucumber" has become a refuge for refugees from equatorial regions seeking livelihood in the north after the fall of the global economy (Image © Robert Graves and Didier Madoc-Jones)

London - Ice skaters on the Thames, Buckingham Palace surrounded by a huge housing colony, London flooded like Venice is today - such and similar images are part of the exhibition "Postcards from the Future" at the Museum of London. Digitally altered images show the possible consequences of global climate change for the British metropolis.
    The creators of the images, Robert Graves and Didier Madoc-Jones, said they were inspired by studies on climate change and its manifestations and consequences, such as global warming, rising sea levels, and food shortages threatening an increasing number of people on Earth.
    "We wanted to create a space where people could reflect on how climate change would impact their lives. We intentionally chose locations that everyone knows," they state on their website.
    The "postcards" include Trafalgar Square, where Admiral Nelson gazes down from his column at the shops of non-European immigrants, a "vertical slum" from a modern glass and steel building shaped like a cucumber, and rice being planted in the flooded area in front of "Big Ben."
    The exhibition will run until March. Some critics label it sensationalist, reported Reuters.

Image © Robert Graves and Didier Madoc-Jones (Background photography © Jason Hawkes)

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