%0 Journal Article %T Being creative in a greenhouse: art and global warming %A Donato Ramani %J JCOM : Journal of Science Communication %D 2008 %I SISSA, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati %X The world, all at once, has become a small world. Not only owing to TV, satellites and the Internet that allow us to jump from side to side of our planet in a click. But also owing to a phenomenon that evokes dry lands, devastating rains, tsunamis and hurricanes, torrid summers and melting glaciers: global warming. In the heated argument on this issue with so many people talking, in the past few years also artists have made their rising voice be heard. Artists-popularisers, aware of their role and of the considerable communication potential of the art medium. Because ¡°One salient image, sculpture or event can speak louder than volumes of scientific data¡±. %K Science %K technology %K art and literature %U http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/07/03/Jcom0703%282008%29C01/Jcom0703%282008%29C01.pdf