Schmelzpunkt, A farewell to the Swiss Glaciers

_{Nuriel Delmée | Bachelor Projekt | 6. Semester | Trends & Identity | Tutor: Henriette-Friederike Herm & Katharin Tietze}

In Switzerland, 900 glaciers have already disappeared, while 1,200 still exist.
As they vanish, not only does the landscape change, but so does our relationship to them. Even if they can no longer be saved, we can still offer them one final gesture of attention: Melting Point is a final tribute as the ice quietly fades—a memorial dossier in the form of a magazine that gives lost glaciers a place of remembrance, positioned between documentation, climate critique, and solastalgia*.
Silent witnesses to this loss accompany the magazine: glass monuments that symbolize the strength, transience, and fragility of ice. They have been placed at sites of disappearance.
The magazine was carried to a mountain hut—back to its origin. There, it remains for hikers as a reminder of farewell.

* the grief we feel as familiar places change due to climate change