Countdown SPRINTS

To a better, greener, healthier, thriving, resilient, fairer, cooler, creative future.

When thinking about what role to play in changing climate change, people want to make the complex information easy to understand and fill their imaginations with visions of possible futures to inspire them to act today.

TED has hand-picked TEDxJohannesburg and nine other TEDx events worldwide to run unique public art activations on climate change. 

We invited seven visual artists to 48-hour creative sessions to develop visual artwork on climate change, focusing on hope and solutions. The sessions, or SPRINTS, ran from Friday evening to Sunday afternoon on 22-24 October. The work is now proudly on display here on this page and elsewhere on this website.

The goal is to share the seven works under an open license so that activists and nonprofits worldwide can use them in campaigns.

Together with Fine Acts, our activation partner, we’re showcasing the works — which we now refer to as the TEDxJohannesburg Countdown Climate Collection — on artistsforclimate.org. The works sit alongside contributions from the nine other TEDx events, plus those from one thousand five hundred artists from ninety-five countries worldwide.