Pollution Pods

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Artist Michael Pinsky's groundbreaking installation Pollution Pods lands on Brownsea Island in Dorset this October.

Through a series of interlinked geodesic domes, you can travel through the atmosphere in each separate pod which recreates the air quality, smell and temperature of five major cities – Tautra, London, Beijing, São Paulo and New Delhi.

Each dome contains a carefully mixed recipe that safely emulates the excessive quantities of ozone, particulate matter, nitrogen dioxide, sulphur dioxide and carbon monoxide that pollute these cities. As you pass through the five cells, moving from dry and cold locations to hot and humid, for a few minutes at a time you will experience, at no risk to your health, the sensation of breathing toxic air that is a daily reality for millions of people.

Michael Pinsky's work has been experienced by more than 20,000 people since it was launched last year at the Starmus Festival in Norway. Climate activist Greta Thunberg and a host of world leaders who gathered for the UN Climate Action Summit in September also had a taste of the toxic air pollution when they visited Michael Pinsky's Pollution Pods in New York.

Free admission to the artwork but National Trust and ferry charges apply for Brownsea Island.