Urban Sputnik is a joint project between scientists from Imperial College London’s Astrophysics Group and Gammaroot’s Vanessa Harden and Dominic Southgate. It develops as a novel way to express the frontiers of astrophysical research in a non-technical, more inclusive way, which uses art and design as its primary language.
The aim of this project is to provide a sensorial environment in an urban setting with otherwise limited visibility of astronomical bodies. It will also create a metaphorical sensory experience connecting the user with distant cosmological phenomena that cannot otherwise be directly perceived nor experienced on a human scale.