Microsoft: A Sustainable Future with AI

For the UN General Assembly’s first convening on AI, Microsoft wanted to make its sustainability initiatives tangible to the world leaders gathering to shape global tech policy and infrastructure.

The resulting exhibition translated Microsoft’s response to AI’s environmental impact into a series of animated glass chambers. Each chamber embodied a major intervention—from carbon removal and rainwater harvesting to bio-concrete, fusion energy, and ecosystem recovery—designed to counter the environmental destruction accelerated by AI.

Built in collaboration with a cross-disciplinary team of special effects artists, technologists, creatives, and engineers, each installation was crafted with scientific precision and sculptural nuance to translate complex research into an artistic sensory experience.​

Over the course of UNGA, the exhibition served as the backdrop to a week of symposia and public programming hosted by Microsoft’s senior leadership. Following its reception in New York, Microsoft commissioned an expanded second iteration as the centerpiece environment of its global flagship event, Ignite, in Chicago, where the exhibition became the primary stage for the company’s AI and sustainability storytelling.