The two second-year Environment and Media Studies students, Tegan Sonvico Christov and Lola Odessey Waters, won a competition to create murals and info-graphics showing a timeline of icebergs and glaciers melting and of sea levels rising next to them.
Lola said: “The opportunity to work with Greenpeace is amazing”. She said it helped develop contacts in the professional world and it allowed them to use their creativity and to raise awareness about environmental issues – as well as attending the festival.
Tegan said: “I was so excited and surprised that we won the competition. It's such a fantastic opportunity because we get to help Greenpeace with their Arctic campaign, do some networking and go to a great festival.”
The competition was open to 91¶¶Òõ media students from the MA Creative Media, BA(Hons) Media Studies and BA(Hons) Environment and Media Studies, and was created following a presentation to Greenpeace by the university’s Dr Julie Doyle, an expert in the communication of climate change.