Climate Action Days: Climate Change Carnival Masks

The Climate Carnival Masks Exhibition is a student-curated, hybrid exhibition (physical and digital) that transforms the school into a gallery of climate narratives. Visitors move through a structured “gallery walk,” encountering symbolic, physical, and AI-generated masks displayed with creative titles and interactive QR codes that link to a short digital reflection form with guiding questions such as:

• What do you think this mask represents?
• Which emotion does it communicate?
• What climate issue or solution do you see here?

The event is designed as a silent observation and deduction experience. Instead of reading explanations, visitors are invited to interpret each mask’s meaning, emotion, and message independently. Interactive reflection stations allow participants to record their interpretations and questions, which are later compared with the students’ original intentions during a moderated dialogue session.

The exhibition concludes with a community discussion forum, where students, teachers, citizens, and local stakeholders reflect on how images, stories, and AI shape public understanding of climate change and civic responsibility.

This process transforms the exhibition into a participatory learning environment, in which visitors become co-interpreters rather than passive viewers, and learners critically examine how visual and AIgenerated media influence meaning, emotion, and civic engagement.