The Urgent Publisher
We live in a time of polycrisis: multiple urgencies, interconnected, all requiring attention. Added to this we are consuming more and we are consuming bigger.
This certainty informs both the conceptual and logistical framework for this website.
Website weight — the total size of all the files (images, code, video) necessary for a website to load — is an invisible mass with a direct and significant impact on the climate crisis. The size of a typical webpage has increased dramatically over the last decade, from 810KB to 2.28MB. In addition the average website produces as much as 1.76g of CO2 per page view.
Withthis in mind, each collaborator has considered a critical balance between information and a light-load webpage in communicating their specific urgency. Whilst our messages may be heavy, our website is light.
Communication Design 2025-26
Falmouth University