Two Harvard Design Engineering graduates built Habitat2100 inside Figma using 300 gigabytes of climate data. The project is an interactive storytelling experience designed to convert raw scientific datasets into emotional urgency and a concrete call to action.
The core problem they are solving is not a data shortage. Climate science has more data than anyone can process. The problem is that data alone does not move people. This talk is worth reading in full because the methodology, translating overwhelming numerical complexity into narrative empathy through a design tool most people use for wireframes, is the actual story.
The Config 2026 presentation raises a practical question every data communicator should sit with: when the numbers are irrefutable and still failing, what does the interface between information and action actually look like. Habitat2100 is one answer.
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