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Paul R. Stremple is a multidisciplinary artist and architectural designer whose work engages the relationship between scientific systems, cultural symbols, and human perception of the natural world. With over three decades of experience across architecture, design, and public art, his practice integrates light, optics, and emerging technologies to create immersive, site-responsive works.

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He is the founder of the Climate Sphere Initiative, a global platform that translates real-time environmental data into shared public experience, and a member of the IUCN Commission on Education and Communication.

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THE CLIMATE SPHERE INITIATIVE

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Stremple is the founder and creative lead of the Climate Sphere Initiative, a platform for developing large-scale public installations that translate real-time climate and biodiversity data into immersive, perceptual experience.

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Conceived as a new form of civic infrastructure, the Climate Sphere operates at the intersection of art, science, and artificial intelligence—translating environmental systems into evolving visual forms that can be collectively experienced in the public realm.

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The work seeks to create a shared language through which planetary systems are no longer abstract, but perceptible and understood as a common condition.

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CLIMATE SPHERE #1 (2020)

A 21-inch aluminum Earth globe—originally a WWII teaching model without text or labels—transformed through the addition of hundreds of door knobs and handles composed of crystal, brass, wood, marble, and porcelain.

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The work incorporates a “snapshot” of global biodiversity hotspots as of July 2020, embedding a specific moment of planetary condition within the surface of the Earth. These locations are marked through the placement of altered and fragmented objects, indicating regions of ecological stress and vulnerability.

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An early exploration of perception and planetary form, the work reframes the Earth as an object of tactile and visual engagement—suggesting thresholds, access points, and distributed points of human contact.

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While the globe begins without geographic labels, the added elements introduce a secondary coded language. Words embedded within the objects—such as “waste” positioned over the United States and “hot” at the polar regions—form a distributed system of signals operating between the visible and the implied.

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This work established the conceptual and material foundation for the Climate Sphere Initiative’s evolution into a data-driven, AI-enabled global platform.

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​SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & PRESENTATIONS

2025 — IUCN World Conservation Congress, Abu Dhabi
2024 — Public Art Commission, City of Lawrence, MA
2022 — Torn, Gallery MC, New York
2021 — The Anthropocene, Gallery MC, New York
2010 — Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2005–06 — SAFE: Design Takes on Risk, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York
2000 — Art in General, New York
1999 — New York Biennial of Glass

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SELECTED PRESS

The New York Times Magazine
WIRED Magazine
CBS Sunday Morning
The Washington Post