Born in Witney, Oxford, England, in 1944 / Lives and works in London, England

Environmental scientist and artist Graham Stevens invented Desert Cloud, an inflatable structure that offered a potential tool against drought. A transparent layer transmitted the sun’s radiation to black panels that captured and shortened its wavelengths, heating the air inside to produce the buoyant ‘cloud.’ The structure’s bottom layer, lined with silver reflective fabric, created shade. Desert Cloud comprised its own weather system, collecting moisture in even the most arid environments. His movie of the same name stands as one of the earliest films to wrestle with the implications of global warming. Though subsequently destroyed in a fire, Stevens’ inflatable invention inspires us to revisit strategies that work with nature to mitigate the consequences of climate change.

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