Re-Imagining Outer Space
Re-Imagining Outer Space is a collaboration between artists and designers Joseph Popper, Sitraka Rakotoniaina, and design students from HEAD - Geneve.
Only 12 men have stood on the Moon, and only around 540 people have ever been to space. For the rest of us, experiencing an outer space perspective depends on imagery and fiction, poetic leaps and artistic choices.
The project begins from the problem that contemporary space exploration and industry still carry a singular, dominating, Apollo-era imagination of what space and humanity are. Re-Imagining Outer Space asks how that image can be disrupted, and how human futures in outer space and on Earth might be imagined differently.
Published Paper
The workshop was presented as the IAC 2019 paper Re-Imagining Outer Space, co-authored by Joseph Popper and Sitraka Rakotoniaina.
Re-Imagining Outer Space Trailer
The workshop used collaborative making, staging, filming, and speculative storytelling to open outer space to other social and cultural imaginaries. Its materials included cardboard prototypes, 1:1 set fragments, spacecraft laboratory scenes, portholes, and a Moon hotel reception desk: deliberately provisional constructions through which different offworld futures could be rehearsed.
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