On Monday there was a lecture at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore by William D. Phillips, Nobel Laureate called “Time, Einstein and the Coolest Stuff in the Universe”. It was the Vainu Bappu Memorial Lecture, with a huge crowd, a packed auditorium. Why I’m writing about it is that it was like a good […]
At the Solar Eclipse the skies belong to the people again and that’s why I had to go there, to see how I could make my own connection with the Solar System and how other people did too.
Hinduism contains an ancient science of eclipses that now manifest in rituals: not eating during an eclipse, not […]
I went back to the Mullard Space Science Lab one year after doing the Satellite Stories event there.
I wanted to find out what people remembered from it and if anything had changed. I’d thought that the sunset to darkness walk round the grounds with the scientists and engineers telling their stories, would be a […]
I haven’t been here for a very long time. Its nice to write my password and go through the gate. I feel like I’ve been staying in somebody else’s house for a while. Today and yesterday felt more familiar. We built the geostationary orbit and making things is like a cipher, the thing you are […]
It seems a long time after the event to be writing back my thoughts!
I wanted to make sure at some point I had fed back to you and people who took part, where the ideas came from and why I wanted to collaborate on the storytelling event we did together. Also to find out from […]
- You’re in charge of the grounds,
Roy Edgington: thats right,
- which is just amazing its just gorgeous.
- How have you come to be here?
R: Well I’m a career changer, I’m a late career changer, I worked in the city got made redundant, went to a specialist horticulture college and there […]
(image courtesy UCL, MSSL)
Voyages of spacecraft through the rooms, minds, garden, lanes, conversations, meetings, oceans, atmospheres, magnetospheres, the pulls and the pushes, the stages of certainty and uncertainty.
This is one plan, the first draft. It could work with a skeleton structure, that’s open enough for adaptation and improvisation, but explores themes, pathways and distances. A […]
Next will be Vehicleday. The first event of our Moon Vehicle research project. With Babita, Nandini, Govind, Sumona, Aajwanthi and fifteen children who came in to Srishti to do crazy moon drawing stuff.
Bangalore Moon #1
So this video shows the kind of thing that was happening at Dartington that night, except for the storytelling/training session, which is below.
Sorry the sound’s not great on this, but I started the evening with some Satellite training, this is a snippet from the STEREO story.
Badge making and BBQ started mid-story and then wham into recording memories from the earth satellite image. Everyone wanted a go. I’m going through the footage now to […]
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