Blue Marble Exhibition: Enter a Reimagined Multilateral Entity
In partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the UN Futures Lab/Global Hub brought the Blue Marble Exhibition to the UN Summit of the Future, envisioning a world where global decisions are guided by both human and non-human intelligence. Blue Marble is an international cooperation entity in the future that employs human and non-human intelligence whose mandate is safeguarding the health of the planet and all its species. A thriving future is predicated on our ability to remodel multilateralism: traditional models of global cooperation that are predicated for more stable and predictable environments are inadequate to deal with multiple overlapping crises that define our present. They fail to orchestrate intelligence across different sectors, disciplines and entities to come up with new responses for multi-dimensional issues. We need to envision different futures for our multilateral institutions.
Blue Marble is a provocation – an invitation to step into an alternate future of global cooperation. What could a different kind of global cooperation look like? What new logics would drive it? What would you want it to look like and what do we need it to be? To build a different future, we must first imagine it.
This speculative exhibition is rooted in real signals of change, extended to indicate possible futures for international cooperation entities, and designed as a way to spark strategic conversations. It presents new forms of governance, collaboration and resource & financing, and it brings ways to integrate multi-species intelligence into policymaking.
- Innovative vision: The exhibition explores how integrating multi-species intelligence into policymaking can address complex development issues and create sustainable, equitable solutions.
- Strategic purpose: Designed to inspire new forms of governance and financing, the exhibition provides decision-makers with alternative approaches to tackle global challenges through a holistic, nature-inclusive perspective.
Why it matters
The Blue Marble Exhibition challenges conventional decision-making paradigms by advocating for the inclusion of nature’s intelligence in global governance. This bold approach aims to co-create long-term solutions for planetary health, fostering a future where humans and ecosystems thrive together.
