Artist Michael Pinsky’s Climate-Action Plan: “Pollution Pods”
By Aileen Kwun
October 19, 2019
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A new traveling exhibition gives visitors a whiff of global travel—just not the scents you’re wont to remember. “Pollution Pods,” a collaboration between artist Michael Pinsky, the innovation lab IFF, and a coterie of perfumers, simulates the conditions of urban air quality from five locales around the world: Norway, London, Delhi, Beijing, and São Paulo. Last month, following installations in England, Switzerland, Germany, and Norway over the past year, the pods were stationed outside the U.N. in New York, where they were visited by 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg.