Exhibition: Design for Weightlessness
Designed objects for space tourism and microgravity, from the UK Space
Agency and the School of Creative Arts.
Open to the public: 27 February 1 March 2018, 10.00 16.00
Art and Design Gallery, University of Hertfordshire, College Lane Campus,
Hatfield, Hertfordshire, AL10 9AB
Design for Weightlessness investigates the ways in which design principles
and practices will need to be revised for the future of space tourism and
mass space travel. Passengers of Zero-G flights describe a post-gravityı
experience, leading to the realisation that most of human experience has
been constrained by the fact that we have been bound to Earthıs surface.
This includes our approach to the design of everyday objects, which have
been developed with the implicit assumption that they will be created and
used in Earth gravity. Following a visit from the UK Space Agency,
students of BA (Hons) Digital Media Arts, BA (Hons) Fashion, BSc (Hons)
Industrial Design, BA (Hons) Interactive Media Design, BA (Hons) Interior
Architecture and Design, BA (Hons) Photography, and BA (Hons) Product
Design have proposed designs for the weightless environment. This
exhibition presents a selection of these student projects, and forms part
of an ongoing research project by staff at the University of Hertfordshire.
There will also be a replica Sokol space suit on display as part of the
exhibition, courtesy of the UK Space Agency.
For enquiries about the exhibition or the ongoing research project,
contact Barbara Brownie [log in to unmask]
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