EARTH LAW

Exhibition and microsite

Earth Law was an exhibition and microsite developed and produced by INTERPRT in collaboration with Polly Higgins and Ecological Defence Integrity (now Stop Ecocide International). The exhibition was held in conjunction with the 17th Assembly of State Parties (ASP) of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and hosted by Museon, museum for science and culture in The Hague and the launch of the concept for a novel test case on ecocide conceived by Polly Higgins. Earth Law consisted of a series of panels on ecocide law, integrated with multimedia works, including a 10-minute animation visualizing the impacts of climate emergency in the Pacific Ocean. The microsite (now archived) mirrored the exhibition with text by Higgins.

Ecocide Law Timeline

For the 2018 Dhaka Art Summit and traveling exhibition, we created a timeline of the history of ecocide law from the 1970s when the term was coined in response to the Vietnam war through the 1990s (the signing of the Rome Statute) and to the 2010s when ecocide law would be revived led by Polly Higgins, among others.