Bigert & Bergström’s spatial design Visualizes Climate scenarios
In summer of 2025, Swedish artist duo Bigert & Bergström present Broken Greenhouse / Embodied Climate Futures in Lund’s Botanical Garden. The site-specific installation explores projected climate pathways through five sculptural greenhouses. The exhibition is a collaboration between the artists, climate researchers from Umeå University, and the Botanical Garden, using architectural form to visualize the UN’s Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) for the year 2100. Each structure represents a different SSP scenario, translating scientific data into spatial and material experiences.
The Redhouse SSP2, 2025. 360 x 400 x 320 cm | all images by Jean-Baptiste Béranger
Five Climate Futures Interpreted Through Greenhouse Structures
SSP1 takes the form of a tube-shaped green greenhouse designed for circular living. Its systems are synchronized with diurnal rhythms, turning the space into a functioning environmental clock. SSP2 is materialized as an inverted red greenhouse resembling a cottage, where visitors can suspend themselves in a flagpole hammock. A third structure, SSP3, uses the shape of a rising line graph to structure a walk-through installation. Beaded glass curtains represent climate data, allowing visitors to physically engage with abstract metrics. SSP4 is embodied in a fractured greenhouse located in a more isolated section of the garden. Its cracked surfaces evoke a dried-out desert. The final installation, designed by Bigert & Bergström Studio, SSP5, is a brown greenhouse emitting smoke, symbolizing stagnation and high-emission trajectories.
the exhibition challenges viewers to rethink ecological responsibility
Broken Greenhouse installations Interpret Climate Uncertainty
The title Broken Greenhouse references both environmental degradation and the fragile state of current systems. The idea that climate change is beyond human control has been overturned, and the effects of greenhouse gas emissions are now firmly acknowledged. Bigert & Bergström’s installation invites reflection on these realities while exploring how future scenarios might be understood, anticipated, or reshaped. The subtitle Embodied Climate Futures reflects the project’s aim to visualize multiple scenarios, offering physical spaces that invite reflection on climate trajectories and potential responses.
Broken Greenhouse unfolds at Lund’s Botanical Garden
The Linechart Greenhouse SSP3, 2025. 400 x 750 x 300 cm
Bigert & Bergström collaborate with climate researchers and garden curators
The Pipedream SSP1, 2025. 310 x 600 x 300 cm
each greenhouse embodies a different climate scenario for the year 2100
spatial design translates scientific projections into physical experience
A Road Divided SSP4, 2025. 350 x 465 x 460 cm
architectural form becomes a tool for engaging with climate data
the installation brings abstract futures into tangible view
Preppers Delight SSP5, 2025. 200 x 400 x 240 cm
the exhibition addresses the human role in shaping climate outcomes
structures invite reflection on planetary vulnerability and resilience
project info:
name: Broken Greenhouse / Embodied Climate Futures
designer: Bigert & Bergström | @studiobigertbergstrom
dates: May 24th – September 20th, 2025
photographer: Jean-Baptiste Béranger | @jeanbaptisteberanger
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edited by: christina vergopoulou | designboom
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