Ice Cube p5.js website
Computation, Climate issues, p5.js
Designed for GCD
THE ICE CUBE WEBSITE transforms digital interaction into climate complicity through p5.js visualization. Each webpage visit generates approximately 0.07g of CO2 from data server emissions—enough that every 10 visits equals one standard 2.5cm household ice cube melting in the real world. The website makes this abstract environmental cost tangible through interactive particle animation, where clicking accelerates the melting process through visual color shifts. This mirrors how our digital behaviors unconsciously contribute to climate destruction.
Visit the website here: https://noorahmadgcd.github.io/ice-cube/
The project's conceptual power lies in its technological irony: using the very infrastructure that damages the environment to communicate that damage. Born from my 'The Ice Caps are Bleeding' zine, this digital iteration expands the melting ice metaphor into interactive space, targeting audiences aged 14+ through accessible household analogies rather than complex climate statistics. The regenerative ice cube feature—creating new particle placements with each interaction—reflects the endless cycle of digital consumption and environmental cost, transforming abstract data server emissions into visceral, clickable consequences.
still of animation in progress