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Original story by Sammy Roth<\/em><\/p>\n

This spring, Wrigley Institute Curator Allison Agsten commissioned an unusual project<\/a> from students and faculty in the USC School of Cinematic Arts. The brief: use AI to generate artistic visions of a future L.A. where sustainability is central to the design and life of the city.<\/p>\n

The results–11 images, by turns surreal, inspiring, and witty–debuted at Climate Forward<\/a> 2024 on USC’s main Los Angeles campus, and were then moved to the Wrigley Marine Science Center<\/a> (WMSC) Art Park on Catalina Island. They’ve been on display at WMSC all summer, visited by students from the institute’s Catalina Residential College<\/a> programs and by the researchers coming and going for field work.<\/p>\n

That’s also where climate journalist Sammy Roth saw the exhibit, while visiting WMSC to learn more about the Wrigley Institute’s research activities. His latest column and newsletter for the L.A. Times<\/em> focus on the art exhibit, the complicated nature of AI (including its implications for climate change), and the value of dreaming big when it comes to developing climate change solutions.<\/p>\n

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