Commissioned as part of the 2022 Green Life Project by Greenpeace and the All-China Environment Federation (ACEF), Another Side is a projection sculpture to investigate how the future might reconfigure its systems in response to accelerating climate volatility.

Working at the intersection of media art, ecological research, and urban environment, Jiayu examines the latent structures of resilience embedded within urban environments — those often unseen or undervalued components that, under conditions of extreme stress, such as torrential storms or heatwaves, begin to emerge as alternate systems of vitality.

The work is driven by extreme weather data from Shenzhen spanning 2000 to 2023, provided by Greenpeace. This long-range dataset fuels a system of generative visualizations and urban simulations. Through mixed-media interventions and architectural projection, Another Side proposes a shift in urban imagination: from reactive infrastructure to adaptive ecologies, to systems of coexistence.

Here, the city is a living, sensing body — capable of change, feedback, and reinvention. This space invites people to perceive what could begin to emerge beneath the surface.

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