Desert Edification volume 1 is a collection of scientific and popular texts extracted from the internet stream. The texts address the issue of desertification from multiple points of view: climatic, geological, historical, etc. In the book the information is distorted, the word “desertification” has been replaced in more than 100 articles with “desert-edification”. The video aims to highlight the media confusion on the progressive desertification of inhabited and cultivated territories due to the continuous exploitation of the soil and the strong climate change. A theme that, despite being concrete and visible, is drowned by a communicative surplus that makes every authoritative voice an opinion . The title “desert-edification” invites a reversal of the point of view: from a passive to an active role. In fact, desertification implies in the word itself an externalization of guilt and of the possibilities of action, on the contrary the anthropocentric paradigm we are used to plays a central role in the creation of these inhospitable spaces. The images expose an alienating condition of a synthetic desert built in a simulated space, a perpetual construction site. The audio was created by layering videos extracted from YouTube with a high number of views; one of the most famous speeches is that of Sir David Attenborough whose voice dominates, together with some politicians, that of authoritative experts. The video images were created on Blender, a 3D design program that allows the simulation of virtual spaces and dialogue with Google Earth.