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Climate Art Installation · Karma Lakelands, Gurugram · April 2025
Below2°
A site-specific installation built to melt. A literal countdown to the threshold the world is working to stay below.
Climate Art Installation · Karma Lakelands, Gurugram · April 2025
A site-specific installation built to melt. A literal countdown to the threshold the world is working to stay below.
2°
The Paris threshold
The Paris Agreement set a global goal: limit warming to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels. Below2° makes that number physical. Something you can stand next to, watch change, and feel.
Below2° was a site-specific climate art installation created at Karma Lakelands in Gurugram in April 2025. The work was built from a 5-foot globe of around 1,000 recycled golf balls, hand-painted by schoolchildren, set in a blend of soya, rice, and wheat wax designed to melt visibly in the outdoor heat.
The piece was designed to make the Paris Agreement's 2°C threshold tangible. Climate science is rich with data and projections, but numbers on a screen rarely carry the weight a physical object does. Below2° asked visitors to watch the threshold dissolve, and to sit with what it would mean to cross it.
Created in partnership with Karma Lakelands and aligned with UN Sustainable Development Goal 13: Climate Action. The installation also featured 14 3D-printed endangered species from the IUCN Red List, each placed around the melting globe.
The work was covered by Indian Express, ThePrint, Cosmopolitan India, Homegrown, and others, sparking conversations about the Paris targets and India's role in staying below the threshold.
2°C
The upper limit set by the Paris Agreement. Above this, the science points to cascading effects: sea level rise, extreme weather, ecosystem collapse, and mass displacement become locked in.
1.5°C
The aspirational target. Already at serious risk of being breached within the next decade. Every fraction of a degree matters. The difference between 1.5°C and 2°C is hundreds of millions of people.
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"I asked myself, what is the one message that needs to go out about the world? It is to keep the world's warming 2 degrees below pre-industrial levels." Aakash Ranison, on the melting 5-ft globe at Karma Lakelands, Gurugram.
Cosmopolitan India"This melting globe in Gurgaon is the climate wake-up call we all need." Built from 1,000 repurposed golf balls, natural wax, and 3D-printed endangered species.
Homegrown"A climate art installation that melts as the planet warms." Below2° at Karma Lakelands makes the Paris threshold tangible and visible.
Media India Group"It took us six months to make this art installation. Apart from recycled golf balls we used a blend of natural waxes like soya wax, rice wax and wheat wax." Aakash Ranison on the craft and materials behind Below2°.
YourStory"I'm working in the climate space because I'm happy, because I want to save nature." On how Below2° fits into a body of work that makes global warming feel real.
Below2° was built for a specific place and moment. Every installation is. If you want to commission a climate art piece for your venue, event, or campus, get in touch.