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Our Place in Space: Coming Spring 2022
March 14, 2022
“If we could look back at Earth from the vastness of the solar system, what would we feel? Wouldn’t squabbles look stupid from Saturn? Wouldn’t violence seem senseless from Venus? Forget about ‘Us’ and ‘Them’, from the perspective of Pluto, it’s just US!”
At it's core, Our Place in Space asks us to take a step back, and ask ‘what kind of world could we create of we viewed problems of difference and division through the widest cosmic perspective?’ How can we shift humankind’s tendency to exist as ‘we’ instead of ‘me’?
Through the medium of an epic scale model of the solar system, that combines three-dimensional sculptures, a walking trail, an immersive AR app, and an educational festival, we hope to leave people reflecting on such sentiments.
The Our Place in Space sculpture trail will stretch over 10 kilometres and will travel from a riverside location in Derry~Londonderry (April & May), to Divis and the Black Mountain in Belfast (June & July), before heading to Cambridge (July & August), and returning to Northern Ireland, at the Ulster Transport Museum and North Down Coastal Path (September & October).