{"id":10792,"date":"2025-11-24T05:00:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T06:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rutha.org\/?p=10792"},"modified":"2025-11-28T12:30:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T12:30:38","slug":"rikako-nagashima-creates-wool-calendars-to-illustrate-the-urgency-of-the-climate-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rutha.org\/index.php\/2025\/11\/24\/rikako-nagashima-creates-wool-calendars-to-illustrate-the-urgency-of-the-climate-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Rikako Nagashima creates wool calendars to illustrate the urgency of the climate crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Graphic designer Rikako Nagashima has created a series of rolled calendars for Danish textile brand Kvadrat<\/a> that have been shortlisted in the graphic design project category of Dezeen Awards 2025<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Titled Irreversible Scale<\/a>, the project was presented as part of Kvadrat’s ReThink textile project on sustainability, designed to illustrate the brand’s commitment to carbon neutrality<\/a> by 2040.<\/p>\n

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Rikako Nagashima has created Irreversible Scale for Kvadrat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The design consists of two wooden frames, with the left displaying a stack of rolled wool calendars for each year until 2040 and the right a holder for them.<\/p>\n

Each year, a roll is moved and suspended in the right frame. The calendars accumulate slowly, as the goals of Kvadrat’s Net Zero roadmap gradually appear on the wooden surface behind them in the left frame.<\/p>\n

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The rolled calendars aim to reflect the urgency of the climate crisis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As each phase is completed, the colour of the calendars changes from warm to cool tones to indicate progress in taking action toward the climate crisis.<\/p>\n

“As the rolls gradually diminish year by year, their visual reduction serves as a metaphor for the depletion of time and resources, expressing the message of irreversibility in relation to time, resources and environmental issues,” Nagashima told Dezeen.<\/p>\n

“This diminishing calendar was created to convey the sense that time and resources are finite and irreversible.”<\/p>\n

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Each roll is moved to the right frame each year to reflect carbon emission goals in the left frame<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The calendars are not divided by labels of days, weeks and months, but instead just have numbered days to emphasise the equal opportunities that exist for each day.<\/p>\n

“By removing conventional divisions such as ‘weeks,’ ‘dates’ and ‘holidays,’ and placing all elements on an equal plane, it emphasises the equality and fluidity of time,” said Nagashima.<\/p>\n

“It invites us to question whether we feel that each day is abundant or scarce,” she added. “This calendar serves as a personal scale of awareness \u2013 a tool that reflects one’s mindset and prompts reflection on how one relates to time and action.”<\/p>\n