Sep 26, 2014 6:30 AM

Gallery: 7 Strange Art Projects Imagine Life After Our Climate Collapses

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'Raindrop' by Alistair McClymont as part of STRANGE WEATHER at Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin. dublin.scinecegallery.com 3
*Strange Weather* is a recently opened exhibition at Dublin's Science Gallery that explores how weather will impact our culture in the future. Here you see Alistair McClymont's "Raindrop" project, which suspends a drop of water in mid-air.
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More than 20 artists explore the idea in different ways. Everyware's "Cloud Pink" allows visitors to touch the fabric cloud.

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A "People's Archive of Sinking and Melting" asks visitors to collect artifacts from locations that are at risk to climate change.
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"Hazmat Suits For Children." Pretty self-explanatory.

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Matt Kenyon's "Cloud" releases little house-shaped puffs into the air.
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Tania Kitchell's "Occupy II: Occupy II are reproductions of alien plant species that have been seen in Arctic regions.

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Karolina Sobecka "Think Like a Cloud" is a weather balloon that collects water samples from the sky that are later consumed by volunteers.

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