Rotterdam’s RisingExperience 60 years of Rotterdam's climate history in just two minutes. Rotterdam’s Rising transforms decades of temperature data (KNMI, 1957–2022) into a unique audiovisual composition, offering a startlingly clear perception of urban warming through sound and sight.
The ExperienceScientific data drives both the evolving musical score and a dynamic visual map of Rotterdam. As the years progress in the composition, the map shifts, intensifying in colour – jarring reds signal hotter years, cooler blues represent colder periods. The city's growth intertwines visually with its warming climate.
This direct translation of data into music and visuals creates a multi-sensory narrative. Rotterdam’s Rising allows us to grasp long-term climate trends not as abstract figures, but as a lived, changing reality within the familiar context of the city.