Archive for April, 2008
Moon Vehicle idea
Monday, April 21st, 2008
Very cute idea that the Srishti students have come up with, after tons of work drilling through ideas.
Their design brief has been to come up with learning tools for children around the age of 12 about the launch of Chandrayaan-1.
I love that the spacecraft gets hidden in a drawer.
Orbit player
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
This player has a collection of movies showing spacecraft in orbit. There’s one that shows the wings opening and they flex kind of like birds. You use the right and left arrows to go through the list.
The Spacecraft
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Sumona, Govind and Babita describe the spacecraft to me following their visit.
Trying to remember
Sunday, April 6th, 2008
Trying to remember some things about satellites on the terrace at CEMA with Mouli and Shakti.
Mouli telling me things about India’s satellites.
Shakti telling ,me about what he learned at school about satellites and India’s space programme. Me saying why I do this and Shakti talking about the village where he’s from, where there are no […]
Things I’m reading
Friday, April 4th, 2008
An Ordinary Person’s Guide to Empire by Arundhati Roy, only available in the Indian Subcontinent, it says. This I like, its hugely angry, I read it in the afternoons, it tells me about the violence of States like America, India and Great Britain towards their own people and other nations.
“The only way to make democracy […]
Where we are
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Moon Vehicle is an arts and culture initiative around the launch by India of Chandrayaan-1. Last September at The Bangalore Space and Culture Symposium this launch was seen as an opportunity to begin embedding other perspectives in the process of space science, the stories of its explorations, technologies, people, philosophies and discoveries.
For me, I want […]
