Vision & Mission

GLOBAÏA was born from urgency. The urgency to understand, and the urgency to act.

We live in an era of great diagnostics. Vast international teams of scientists work in concert to map the trends that are quietly reshaping the world our children will inherit. Even as an unprecedented portrait of humanity and the biosphere comes into focus, critical thresholds of the Earth system are being crossed — threatening to tip us into a radically different world.

Our conviction is that a global education — rooted in a historical and planetary perspective, aimed at building a terrestrial citizenship imbued with universal responsibility — will help illuminate the choices before us. The material we work on is the worldview itself: cosmovisión in Spanish, Weltanschauung in German. Each of us carries a worldview — inherited from our education, our environment, our era — that is largely unconscious, deeply rooted, and difficult to perceive. Yet it shapes our behaviours, our choices, and our decisions. Alongside institutions and technologies, worldviews represent one of the most powerful levers through which societies can be transformed.

At the intersection of science, art, and philosophy, GLOBAÏA acts as an incubator for new representations of the world — maps, timelines, and interactive visualizations adapted to contemporary socio-ecological realities. It is from the marriage of the arts and the sciences that the most potent tools will emerge: those capable of fostering civic engagement, adaptation to global change, and the adoption of ways of living that are both solidary and durable. This is GLOBAÏA’s wager.

As kosmographers*, we give form to the invisible: the deep-time rhythms of climate, the acceleration of human enterprise, the fragile boundaries that sustain life. We translate complexity into imagery that crosses language and culture — because a shared planet demands a shared way of seeing.

Our work explores four interwoven themes:

1. Big History — the evolution of the cosmos, Earth, life, and people;
2. The Ecosphere — Earth’s habitability and the systems that sustain it;
3. The Anthropocene — contemporary global change and its consequences;
4. Planetary Stewardship — pathways toward a regenerative future.

Through these lenses we create visual narratives for scientists, educators, filmmakers, and institutions — including as part of the ‘Third UN,’ the informal networks of researchers and civil-society organizations that shape global policy. Our work has reached audiences through Netflix, BBC, TED, and the scientific community, always in service of the same goal: making the state of the planet legible, felt, and impossible to ignore.

The Anthropocene has begun. To navigate it as enlightened beings demands an exceptional vision.

“Where danger grows, so too grows what saves.” — Hölderlin

COSMOPHANY · Cultivating Consciousness in the Mesocosm

Cosmophany is the idea that civilizations are shaped by what they know of the world — and how they choose to represent it. It grounds societal development in observable reality: the structures, patterns, cycles, and phenomena that science reveals and art makes tangible. In this sense, every visualization we create is an act of cosmophany — an attempt to align how we live with what we know.

*A kosmographer, from the Greek kosmos (order, world) and graphia (writing, drawing), goes beyond traditional cosmography. It is an interdisciplinary practice that merges science, philosophy, and the arts to portray the known world as an interconnected, evolving, and aesthetically coherent whole.