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Connecting for Climate Change

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55 people came together at MosaicMoments Studio at the past weekends to make mosaic tiles for the Climate Change Group Mosaic in Beijing. After using words to express hopes and fears about Climate Change now hands are penetrating the topic. Let participants speak for themselves what they have experienced during these community crafting sessions:

Anna and Lorenz crafting their mosaic tiles with the symbols water – source of all life and hand, symbolizing protection, education, action and harmony

“You work on these mosaics so very detailed and carefully, so this is how we should care for the creation and environment, that we work and handle it carefully. Many small details make a bigger image, like many small actions make a world.”

Lorenz B. , from Germany

“It’s a great time to reflect on what we were thinking our aims were and to see this come in action. At the same time it was fun to learn a new skill.”
Anna W., from UK

Tong and Zhiyou working together on the turtle – symbolizing longevity and sea and land biodiversity

“I am very glad to join this project, it is very meaningful not only for us its also for others who finally are looking for opportunities to contribute … I really enjoy doing this …. I appreciate the team work, which is great. We don’t know each other and you bring us together, we get to know each other and in the future we can communicate definitely with all of you …”
Tong L. From China

Michaela making the coral – which means start of marine food chain which finally contributes to stable human food source

“in transforming the words into art and pictures it makes it even more deeper and clearer how important for example the corals are ….for our survival”

“In our first community assembly meeting we had words and with making this mosaic and the building of the motives it means action…. The transfer from words into action belongs to this climate change where we really need action.”
Michaela S., From Austria

Teachers of Love Cube art school Beijing participated on March 4 and made 8 hand symbolizing protection, education, action and harmony

“Thank you. Everything was so efficient. This is a very meaningful art project.”
Ivy Y. , from China

Raising Awareness of Climate Change – A Mosaic Mural in Beijing

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Community projects will play an important role on the journey to become emissions neutral, the key goal of the Paris Climate Agreement that 196 states, including China, are striving to meet.

https://unfccc.int/process-and-meetings/the-paris-agreement/the-paris-agreement

Following the UN Conference of Parties (COP26) Climate Change summit held in Glasgow in Nov 2021, the Global Assembly called on artists around the world for creative responses reflecting people’s fears and hopes for a world threatened by climate change. It hopes to raise awareness through art projects and to mobilize society at grassroots level – every household and every community – to protect and sustain the environment by changing the way we use natural resources. The artwork can be viewed on the Cultural Wave website managed by the Global Assembly.

From the global assemblies website http://globalassembly.org

As an offshoot of this initiative, we recently organised the Community Assembly of Beijing involving a group of dedicated women from China and abroad. We are now putting our words into action by undertaking a community art project in the form of a mosaic mural symbolizing our deep respect for our planet, its life-giving climate, and global biodiversity, which we have a duty to protect. We believe this action will help to raise public awareness of the threat of climate change and the need to keep our climate goals in mind, in everything we do.

Workshops on March 4/5 at MosaicMoments Studio

“Delivering as one”

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Corporate teambuilding mosaic for United Nations Regional Coordination Office, Beijing

Dear Ms. Muller,
On behalf of the UN Country team in China, I wish to express my sincere gratitude for your contributions to our recently concluded retreat in Beijing. The preparation of the mosaic was one of the highlights of our program. All participants joined the activity with great enthusiasm and were most grateful for the opportunity to work with you and your team. The mosaic will make a most impressive addition to our office and provide tangible evidence of what can be achieved when working together…..
Siddhardt Chatterjee, UN resident coordinator, 07 June 2021

In May 2021 MosaicMoments was commissioned to engage 30 heads of UN agencies in a mosaic making session with the aim to experience each other in a totally different activity compared with their usual interactions via emails, phone calls and meetings.
The output was to be a mosaic made out of 30 squares for the staircase of the newly renovated building of the Regional Coordination Office.The client asked to depict the new UN slogan “Delivering as one” in the design as well as using the color codes for the UN publication materials.

Design by Kersten von Sohlern

MosaicMoments team prepared glass materials, work boards and tools for 30 workstations and transformed one of the meeting rooms into a mosaic workshop.The location was the Chun Hui Yuan Resort at the fringe of Beijing City where the retreat was taking place.

During the 2h workshop the participants broke material into tesserae and assembled the colorful glass squares into random letters and patterns, not knowing about the overall design, which wasn’t revealed to the crowd.

After one hour of quiet diligent work everyone got together in the center of the room and started to make sense of the letters randomly put together.

The slogan was guessed fast by one of the young female participants.

Feedback was extremely positive about the effect of immersing into colors and being completely taken away from business thought but yet contributing to a beautiful outcome that will decorate the work environment.