The Story of Space 2017 - Post Festival Catalogue

2017 Post Festival Catalogue

Preface PREFACE

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‘The Story Of’ is an interdisciplinary platform for 21st century learning We are a community of artists, designers, scientists, researchers, philosophers, and educators who have come together to tell stories that expand our being and becoming. We are focused on creating, curating, and supporting relevant learning projects that target 21st century knowledge & understanding, skills, attitudes and values.

Why are we relevant Our education system is broken, both in its philosophical underpinnings and implementation challenges. While many bodies – government, non-profit, and corporate – are working towards solving these challenges, the sheer complexity of systemic change required slows the process down, and often renders the solutions outdated. We posit that creating a culture of learning and empowering communities to start their own relevant, non-formal learning solutions, in parallel to more formal efforts, can yield results that benefit society at large.

To think about this more deeply, start by asking ‘what for’ is education?

The education system was designed to the tune of an industrial society, where every individual is trained to join a particular industry and the economics of it. That is education by its definition is ‘systematic schooling and training for work’. And success at work is defined by profit. Naturally then most educational choices are directed at profitmaking. However, climate change, economic inequalities, dying forests, and increasing rates of depression are all real problems of the 21st century that our conventional education systems are not training us for.

Recognizing this, 21st century educators have outlined a host of skills and attitudes we need to flourish in the coming century, such as critical thinking and compassion.

The Story Of is focused on creating, curating, and supporting relevant learning projects that target 21st century knowledge & understanding, skills, attitudes and values. To do this, we have to form multiple partnerships and a strong community to learn from each other.

Where we’ve been and where we’re going In 2015, we held our first major event, ‘The Story of Light’ festival, in Goa, India. It was attended by 15,000 people across ages and walks of life as it was free and for the public. In our next project, ‘The Story of Space’, held in November 2017, we fine tuned our curation and delivered richer learning experiences to a smaller audience of 02

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about 5,000. Our next project is ‘The Story of Mind’, and we’re still synthesizing our learnings to decide the approach and format.

So far, we have engaged 200+ artists, designers, researchers, and educators to create learning opportunities for 20,000+ students, educators, families, and adults.

While the format of festivals is our starting point, we’ve started smaller initiatives and would like to use the power of the community and network to share these learning experiences so that we can all do more together.

We’re creating a platform If you’re interested in participating in and creating learning opportunities on relevant issues for society at large, we welcome you into our community. As a member, you can either start a new project, join an existing one, or simply fund a project.

We value and promote: Continuous learning and growth: We’re developing methods on designing great and effective learning opportunities asking key questions like what for or why are we learning, what are we learning, how are we learning, who is learning, and how do we know whether and what learning occurred?

Multiperspective and mindful inquiry: To solve problems and live a life where flourishing for all is possible we have identified that we need to build competencies like thinking beyond silos, comfort to complexity, systems thinking, understanding there are many truths, managing native egocentrism and mindfulness in inquiry and action. Our projects are directed towards building these competencies over many interactions.

Collaboration, cooperation, and community: Collaboration is easier said than done. We’re constantly exploring methods and tools like Sociocracy, Non-Violent Communication, World Cafe, and more to learn how to work together such that everyone flourishes.

Connections and interdependence: Interdependence is an understanding that things don’t exist independently, but they exist interdependently. There can be various degrees of interdependence depending on the system being considered. The idea is common to both Western PREFACE

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and Eastern philosophy, and is beautifully illustrated by the sciences—physics, ecology, systems biology, and so forth. We all experience interdependence—we see it clearly in our relationships and the consequences of human interactions with our ecology and environment. Going one layer deeper to understanding it can have far reaching behavioural consequences. Making interdependence visible is the philosophical basis of our work.

Know more: www.thestoryof.org

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PREFACE

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Through a month long calendar of events, THE STORY OF SPACE explored questions of space concerned with science, art, culture, philosophy, and society – bringing new ideas and perspectives into the public sphere of thought. The scope of space is broad, from inner to outer, confined to unfettered, tangible to intangible, known to unknown. The experiences within the festival were distinguished by themes of physics, politics, philosophy and perception.

P H I LOSOP HY

P OLIT ICS

ART S

SO C I E T Y

P HI LO SO PHY

PE RCE PT ION Inner

C U LT U R E

P HYS ICS

Outer

T E C HNOLOGY

SCI ENCE

Festival Objectives FESTIVAL OBJECTIVES

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What For We Learn

WHAT WE LEARN

WHO IS LEARNING

WHAT FOR WE LEARN

HOW WE LEARN

WHERE WE LEARN

For the what for we learn, our objectives for the Story of Space 2017 festival were: - For festival visitors: To provide informal learning opportunities on space from multiple perspectives to promote inquiry and action - For participants and team: To create a space for various disciplines and perspectives to dialogue and connect to society

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For the what, we focused on inter and cross-disciplinary learning opportunities across Science, Philosophy, Arts, Culture, Nature, Education, Ethics, as they are all relevant and equally important. The participants and team in particular learned new 21st century skills through on-the-job experience, as well as experienced a change in perception, attitudes, and values. Visitor learnings are captured on the project pages.

What Was Learned FESTIVAL OBJECTIVES

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Our target audience was intentionally kept wide in this edition so we may better understand who was lear ning what and how. We carried out an impact and evaluation study to understand where lear ning occurred in order to base our future decisions on these findings. But overall we had five groups of lear ners with different takeaways. For students and teac hers, we approac hed

the Depar tment of Education to reac h out to sc hools and also prepared a handbook especially for teac hers and students that indicate questions for facilitators to ask students and relevance to the curriculum, where available.

The other audience groups came through various promotion c hannels suc h as newspaper ads, Facebook, Whatsapp, and word of mouth.

STUDENTS AND TEACHERS :

Who Was Learning

Secondary To University

ADULTS :

FAMILIES :

Incidental and Intentional

Curious and Seeking

WHO

PARTICIPANTS : Researchers, Artists, Educators

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TEAM AND VOLUNTEERS

INFORMAL

HOW

LIFELONG

SHARED

How Was It Learned

SPONTANEOUS

EXPERIENTIAL

For the how, we were interested to explore learning opportunities that are self-directed and social. These included informal, experiential, spontaneous, lifelong, collaborative, open, shared, and exploratory projects. Continuing on the formats explored with The Story of Light, we had workshops, public installations, performances, and workshops, and also included live experiences, talks, panels, exhibitions, and masterclasses.

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Where Did Learning Occur

WORKSHOPS, MASTERCLASSES

TALKS, PANELS, FILMS

WHERE

PUBLIC INSTALLATIONS, EXHIBITIONS

LIVE EXPERIENCES, PERFORMANCES

The how we learn is naturally tied into where we learn. The learning spaces were all public spaces, 17 of them, and the festival was free and accessible to all. The Goa Science Center, Adil Shah Palace, Old Goa Institute of Management, Fundcao Oriente, Campal Indoor Stadium, Kala Academy, Panjim Municipal Market, Garcia de Orta garden, and Institute Menezes Braganza were some of them.

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Festival Map

1) Goa Science Centre 2) Sukerkar House 3) Garcia De Orta 4) Adil Shah Palace 5) Central Library 6) Sadhana del Arte 7) Campal Indoor Stadium 8) Kala Academy 9) 91 Springboard 10) Francisco Luis Gomes Garden 11) Panjim Municipal Market 12) Institute Menezes Braganza 13) Fundacao Oriente 14) Alliance Francaise 15) Gallery Gitanjali 16) Mozaic 17) 6 Assagaon 18) Museum of Goa

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Curatorial Process

Our curatorial criteria was focused on meeting the festival objectives. The process was designed to take participants through a journey of questioning the learning angles in their work and the possible impact, and at the same time develop an aesthetically appealing experience. The entire process lasted over a year:

Jan 2017

Sep 2016 Open call for proposals

Shortlisted projects notified and discussions begin

Oct - Nov 2017 Mar - Aug 2017

Participants arrive and produce their projects on site

Greenlighting projects

The selection committee included Jaya Ramchandani, Shaira Sequeira Shetty, Deshna Mehta, Shazeb Shaikh, Lina Sunish Vincent, Rahul Gudipudi, Akshay Roongta, and Shrinivas Ananthanarayanan. The film program was curated by Ana Bernardo (Film) and Sanjana Nanodkar (Film) following a separate process.

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The notion of space is synonymous to existence. With a past that is seemingly without a beginning and a future brimming with possibility, how do we, the human, contextualise ourselves in this fragment: this instance of space and time. Be it scientific deductions, philosophical inductions, or cultural abductions, the lens through which space is seen and experienced forms an integral part of making sense of the world within and around us.

The Story of Space 2017 is a interdisciplinary festival exploring questions of space through the languages and practices of science (from scientia, ‘knowledge’), culture (from cultura ‘growing, cultivation’), and philosophy (from philosophia ‘love of wisdom’). Does space have a beginning, or a boundary?

Do we feel space? How do we experience dimensions? Where do we go in our dreams? Does information take space? Why do some of us fear enclosed spaces?

Do we come from space? Its scope is broad, from inner to outer, confined to unfettered, tangible to intangible, known to unknown.

We invite researchers of science and philosophy, artists and designers, and cultural practitioners, to share their ‘stories of space’ through various aesthetic frameworks. Through these stories, we hope to inspire the public, communities and individuals to reflect on questions about our space in the universe.

Phase 2 Shortlisting

Phase 1 Open and invited call

An open call for proposals outlining the festival objectives and the scope of ‘space’ to give direction on multiperspective inquiry (physics, philosophy, politics, and perception) was made. The call was publicised across our social media channels and personal networks as well as among relevant communities of researchers. Some participants were invited to submit a proposal and went through the same curatorial process below. The form received 2879 unique visits and 260 proposals were sent in. 110 participants identified themselves as artists and designers, 90 as researchers (science and otherwise), and 22 as interdisciplinary teams.

The request for proposal was broad and open to interpretation:

Members of the selection committee divided the proposals between themselves and had a first read, marking proposals as Yes, No and Maybe. The curatorial team along with members of other teams met in January 2017 to create the first shortlist (of 100 proposals), by going through all the pieces as a group, seeking consensus through sociocratic means for each proposal. The curation goals were to achieve a variety in : 1. Thematic: Physics, Philosophy, Politics, Perception 2. Audience: Students, Families, Educators, International Tourists, Domestic Tourists 3. Background of participant: Artist / Designer, Researcher, Other 4. Format: Installations, Workshops, Live Experiences, Performances, Exhibitions, Talks, Panels 5. Experience: Amatuer, Professional, Student Group 6. Nationality: Indian, International A separate ‘cross-pollination’ list was also prepared for proposals that were not substantial enough on their own but participants could benefit from our collaboration interventions.

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Curators reached out to shortlisted participants individually, spoke with them and invited them to submit a detailed project idea answering specific questions that were posed to them. Cross-pollination dialogues were initiated at this stage as well.

Based on the level of participation the detailed idea, and pitches from the curators themselves, a smaller list of selected pieces and teams was prepared comprising 60 proposals.

The curators continued working with participants, while collectively reaching out to potential sponsors to ascertain if any specific support could be garnered. This was especially critical for teams that would need to travel to India from other countries.

Based on further detailing, budgets, and available sponsorship, a list of greenlit projects was created and those teams were notified (down to 50 proposals). Panels and talks were programmed through member networks to add to our selection.

The residency program was mainly to facilitate dialogues and collaboration among the participants and a site to start production. All curators were involved in production decisions as budgets were tight. Participants also presented their work to each other if they came early on in the residency period to sow the seeds for future collaborations.

The two film curators watched 945 films received from all over the world through an open call using the FilmFreeway platform. They shortlisted 41 films from 21 different countries.

The films were divided into eight different sessions: Inner Space I and II, Inner Space (Children), Science Fiction, Geopolitical Space, Outer Space (Children), Gender Space, and Space Exploration. Three special features were also included in the program.

The film program was diverse and showcased different cultural, aesthetic and intellectual perspectives.

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EDUCATION / OUTREACH

Learning in non-traditional settings results in both expected and unexpected outcomes. Previously unknown talents and strengths can surface, untapped potential can be explored and the influential minds of young learners can be exposed to unique subject matters. The Education Outreach team was formed to carry forward one of the core principles that the Foundation is driven by - inspiring and facilitating new ways of learning about the world and connecting with people through these learning journeys. The team’s main aim was to maximise student engagement and ensure long term and impactful learning at the The Story of Space 2017 by promoting an environment conducive to learning and reflection.

The multi-faceted approach to achieve this included: a. Coordinating with participants to define learning objectives for their projects so that secondary and high-school students can better connect the context to their curriculum b. Creating a handbook for students and teachers with question prompts while engaging with a particular work, and further information sources to extend the ideas and concepts into the classroom c. Liaising with the Department of Education to garner support and promote the festival among secondary and high school

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d. Organising workshops and events especially aimed at school groups e. Engaging of volunteers from junior colleges around Goa to be a part of the festival and gain work experience while interacting with a host of artists, scientists, and philosophers f. Participating in the evaluation program from a student-centered point of view.

On ground, members and volunteers of the team acted as points of contact by troubleshooting and assisting learners in their discovery process, guiding them in the best possible way to take part in the festival. The festival was attended by 20 schools from Goa and beyond.

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philosophy share the same space and inspire discussions between scientists, philosophers, artists, and the public so that the abstract in our universe can be brought under the public eye.

Reach her at jaya@thestoryof.org

Jaya Ramchandani General circle

Jaya Ramchandani is an educator, editor, and curator discovering the universe, through science, philosophy, and looking inward.

She’s studied physics (bachelor’s) and astronomy (master’s) and is a certified secondary general science and physics teacher. She’s been involved in and regularly works with several innovative science platforms like Universe Awareness (by Leiden University, The Netherlands), which illustrates the multicultural origins of modern astronomy in an effort to broaden children’s minds, awaken their curiosity in science and stimulate global citizenship and tolerance; Sterrenlab, which organizes science laboratories, field trips, games, DIY activities, and maker spaces; Open Science Center, an engaging learning space based on open standards: open architecture, open education, open technology & open science; and AstroEdu (by International Astronomical Union), a peerreviewed astronomy education platform. She co-founded The Story Of to see science and

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Shrinivas A General circle

Shrini is a creative visualiser, artist & experimenter based in Goa, India. He finds the creative process extremely satisfying, perhaps even more than the final form. His current scope of work includes graphic design, illustration, paper engineering, environmental graphic murals, documentary films and photography.

“An Artist’s task is to bear witness to the universe…”– Mark Strand Reach him at shrinivas@thestoryof.org

Deshna Mehta General circle,

Deshna is a visual artist with a passion for photography, writing and curation. After having graduated from the Royal College of Art in London, she moved back to India seeking to find meaning within her own design practice. This led to a focus of working primarily for and within the cultural, social, medical, educational and environmental zones which subsequently led to the inception of a design and publishing initiative, Anugraha, that responds to this philosophy and serves as a platform to encourage and undertake collaborative practices in the field of visual art, design and research. She believes that essence of everything tangible lies in the intangible; and that magic resides in the ephemeral, the elusive, the unseen, the emotive, the experiential and the subtle; which is what she aspires to experience and express through her engagement at The Story of Space. The quest is to reconnect to the self through the many tangible connections and exchanges that unfold in the form of interactions bringing varied perspectives to the fore.

Reach her at deshna@thestoryof.org

Rahul Gudipudi General circle Rahul is a mixed media artist and curator based in Bangalore, with a history in practice from the polarities of robotics and photography. He brings a pluralist perspective/voice into his curatorial work. Bridging extremes of forms and practices like those of mechatronic art that contrast or merge with traditional forms and practices and merge their supposed experiences, he works to bring together artists of disparate disciplines and media —and artists of varying experience within their media, seeking inspiration from all forms of cultural, political, human and social stimuli. He has contributed to various public art projects, both as an artist and as a curator, and from these experiences, has explored the value of geo-cultural contexts, the physicality of the spaces themselves, their inhabitants, and the collective history they

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represent. Through this footing, he approaches ideas or observations of congruence in notions of identity and perception, and also multi-formal communication across these various participants and their subjective experiences.

He also engages with ‘The White Cubes’: working and developing pieces and processes across artistic mediums, to reengage with these arenas and prosceniums; break rigid notions of expectations, definitions, boundaries and aspire to experientially introduce critique, commentary or dialogue between the content, context, form and audience.

Reach him at rahul@thestoryof.org

research, script writing, video shooting and editing; book editing and more recently working in the alternative arts space. She has a Master’s in Media and Cultural Studies from Tata Institute of Social Sciences and has taught ­­­­undergraduates. Her preference is to work in the non-profit and social space.

Human relationships and their interconnectedness to the universe is a preoccupation that fascinates her. The inexplicable mysteries and secrets of our cosmic world and the sheer labyrinth of undiscovered knowledge about our existence drive her passion for this project. More precisely the subtle links that connect humankind as also the space between us where the beauty and magic happens have always been unanswered questions. So whether it’s science, philosophy, art or culture that assist us in catching a fleeting glimpse of something colossal or of something microscopic, there can only be a new world to see; and perhaps then we can begin to understand this world.

Reach her at shaira@thestoryof.org

Shaira Sequeira Shetty General circle

Shaira Sequeira Shetty is an independent media and cultural research professional with experience in diverse fields including documentary

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Akshay Roongta General circle

Akshay is an industrial designer and design researcher, and has worked in the areas of renewable energy, sanitation and hygiene amongst others.

He’s interested in how organisations constantly learn from what they do, and others, especially elevating stories from those closest to the action.

Reach him at akshayroongta@gmail.com

Shazeb Shaikh

Curatorial management

As an independent curator with a focus on experimental practices and processes across human endeavour, Shazeb’s explored several questions he’s had as an individual by searching for answers within original frameworks of inter-disciplinary artistic research and production. He’s been actively involved in public space projects and has been researching and developing sub-cultural practices to explore the relationship between art and culture. Most of his work is based in spontaneous creation and expression and usually involves fusing new people to create unknown situations and engineering new collective imaginations of beauty and its future.

With diversified, almost schizophrenic, interests, his projects are usually designed as longterm impact programs but even then, most of them have come to meet each other. The value of ‘experience’ is the corpus of his life and through all his attempts, this objective remains sacrosanct for himself, the artists he works with and the audience.

As a curatorial process, his projects are the canvas and the multidisciplinary artists he works with are the colours, tools, or chemicals that blend differently in different situations and combinations to produce differentiated experiences. And so the chemistry between different artists and practices urge him to play blind, as unlocking the true potential of the unexpected is what he loves the most.

And maybe, this way, we will actually find the future in the present tense.

Reach him at sheikspear@gmail.com

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Lina Vincent

Curatorial management Lina Vincent Sunish is an art historian and curator currently based in Goa. In the last fifteen years her professional experience has been mainly in the areas of research, design, curation and public art programming. She is committed to interdisciplinary and socially engaged arts practice that reflects in the diverse projects and associations she has developed and participated in.

Her most recent curatorial consultancies are with ‘Tabiyat: Medicine and Healing in India’ (January-March 2016, CSMVS Museum Mumbai) part of Wellcome Trust’s ‘Medicine Corner’ http://medicinecorner. in/; and ‘Morphology of Archive: Connected Histories of Goa’, at Museum of Goa (MOG – February – May 2016). Selected independent curatorial projects include MEMORABILIA, Gallery Sumukha Bangalore (2014); ‘under my skin…under your skin’ selected video works by Baptist Coelho (2013-ongoing); ‘Between the Lines: Identity, Place

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and Power – Selections from the Waswo X Waswo Collection of Indian Printmaking’ NGMA Bangalore and Mumbai (201213); ‘I am Here’ an exhibition of video self portraits at Jaaga Creative Common Space, Bangalore (2011). As Associate Curator with ARTPORT_making waves (www.artport-project.org) since 2014 she has coordinated educational screenings on climate change and is developing project proposals around ‘GOOD FOOD India’. She is a curator with Artist Pension Trust (APT Global) and has designed an educational exhibition on India’s medical heritage for Trans-Disciplinary University (TDU) Bangalore, where she is adjunct faculty.

Her ongoing research is on Arts Education in India, and she worked on the students section of the Kochi Muziris Biennale (2014-15). Her essays have been recently published in “Pages of a Mind: Raja Ravi Varma, Life and Expressions” (Piramal Art Foundation 2016, ISBN 97881-930668-0-5) and “20 Indo Pak Painters You Should Know” (Millennium Media, Karachi ISBN 9789 699 976025). She currently contributes to Art & Deal (Delhi) and Nigaah Arts and Culture (Karachi/UAE).

Lina Vincent completed a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts (specializing in Graphic Printmaking) from the Chitrakala Institute of Advanced Studies (CIAS), at Bangalore University and a Post Graduate Degree in Art History from the same institution (2001).

Reach her at lina.sunish@gmail.com

Ana Bernardo

Curatorial management Ana got her PhD in Biology at Leiden University Medical Center (the Netherlands). She has always been proactive in promoting cross-fertilization between different sectors: arts, sciences and humanities. In the past she worked as coordinator of Leiden International Short Film Experience, and nowadays as film officer at Science London (British Science Association). Ana believes in multi-pronged approaches to the world we live in, in order to solve the challenges we face nowadays and build a more sustainable future.

Know more about her research and work: Leiden International Short Film Festival: http://www.lisfe.nl/ Linked In: https://uk.linkedin.com/ in/anambernardo

Sanjana Nanodkar Curatorial management Growing up in different cities in India, absorbing and appreciating various cultures has been a way of life for Sanjana. As an individual as well as a designer, she draws inspiration from her interaction with people and spaces. At present she is working with a Mumbai based design and publishing studio, Anugraha, that primarily focuses on working in the cultural, social, medical, educational and environmental zones. She is a travel enthusiast with a passion for film and photography and aims to tell stories through her words and images someday.

Reach her at sanjanananodkar@gmail.com

Reach her at anambernardo@gmail.com

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Niketa Malhotra

Evaluation and Sustainability A knowledge seeker, Niketa believes learning can happen anytime. All one needs is awareness and an open mind.

She is an impact assessment practitioner with a passion for gardening and fitness. The convergence of the human mind and body fascinates Niketa and she is pursuing it through Vipasana meditation and High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT). Inspired after meeting Rta Kapur Chishti, Niketa has recently initiated a project to don 100 Saree drape styles (& more) that are worn by women across India. The aim of the project is to revive the traditional drapes of India and help them find a place in everyday wear. You can reach her on twitter @nikaytaa.

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Madhulika Sagaram Education and Outreach Dr. Madhulika. S has a PhD in Molecular and Environmental Plant Science followed by a Master’s with triple emphasis in Curriculum and Instruction, Social and Leadership development from Texas A &M University, College Station, Texas. Her innovation in English learning using local language, culture and way of life has been listed among top 10 innovations in Asia and Africa in Secondary Education (Results for Development Institute, Washington D.C., supported by Rockefeller Foundation). Dr. Madhulika. S has been a TEDx IIM Ranchi speaker on “Teaching with a difference” and TEDx IIT BHU speaker on “Arts based learning”. The focus of her innovation is on the importance of education for human development with perspectives on transforming self, ideas and surroundings, and creating interdependence through an understanding of the

connected world using progressive approaches such as constructivist pedagogy, place based learning, arts based learning and spiral learning. Madhulika has designed and implemented Science education programs for 25,000 children in Hyderabad integrating arts based learning with science and mathematics. She has also developed pedagogy to accelerate learning for children especially focused on enhancing the pace of emotional development to reach age appropriate levels. The pedagogy focused on accelerated learning enables the learner to reach age appropriate levels and standards according to grade level expectations along with the required emotional development.

design, social innovation and more. Simply put, systematically identifying, articulating and addressing problems of varying scales is what he likes to do.

With a prior background in visual communication, he can also be finicky about typography and all that comes with it.

Nupur D’souza General circle, General circle Nupur is a Goa-based writer, photographer and educator. After a background in sound design and media, she immersed herself in the education sector for a period of seven years – teaching students, designing curriculum and training teachers.

Abrar Burk Evaluation and Sustainability Abrar is a human-centered interaction designer by day, and a tinkerer and creative coder by night.

At Story of Space, she is a part of the Education Outreach team where her focus is on curating the festival for a younger audience.

His interests range from design research to service & systems

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Francesca Cotta Creatives and Communication

Ishan Mudgal Exhibition Design

Ishan is an Exhibition Design student at The National Institute of Design.

Driven by an intense urge to know how the world works, from science to human psychology, he cherishes the coming together of art, science, music, philosophy and a variety of other fields.

Optimistic and ever curious, he thrives off interaction and loves meeting people from different cultures, ideologies and perspectives.

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Francesca Cotta recently completed her B.A. from Symbiosis School for Liberal Arts, with a major in Anthropology and a double minor in English Literature and International Relations. She is a writer and event manager at Warehouse Zine, a collective started by a group of her friends in an attempt to find a place for the numerous conversations they’d have and the ideas they’d dream up over the course of their friendship. She is crazy about books (both hoarding and reading them) and enthusiastic about language, libraries, bicycles, metaphors (“things are like other things”, i.e. interconnectedness), the wild outdoors, ice cream and feminism.

Namrata Ganguly Project Manager

Ann Van Den Borne Project Manager

Ann grew up on a potato farm at the border of The Netherlands and Belgium — an extremely active childhood exploring the outdoors and discovering through experience. Ann is a fully qualified Physical Education teacher with 10 years’ middle and high school experience in The Netherlands, India and China.

When teaching Ann focuses on building self-confidence through positive encouragement, creating a good and safe atmosphere for collaboration and teamwork, and enabling learning through enquiry.

Ann had also volunteered for The Story of Light. For The Story of Space her role is to manage the development and execution of 8 projects under Deshna.

Namrata Ganguly is an aspiring vagabond with a keen interest in Interdisciplinary arts & design with experience in human resources, change management, strategy & branding and arts administration.

She is always on the look out for new interesting things and is perennially “treasure hunting”.

Jocel Souza Accounts

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Jocel Souza is currently pursuing a career in social entrepreneurship in the Arts and Culture sector.

He also develops and designs websites on WordPress for local start ups. Previously, he studied civil engineering, and has worked in Operations and Project Management for corporate events at Direct Edge, in Oman.

He is interested in Goan heritage art and passionate about making the arts inclusive to people of all age groups, and all walks of life.

Mohini Mukherjee Creatives and Communication

Noel Mark Sequeira Residency Management

Noel is serendipitously welltrained at hosting visitors. He dabbled in a bunch of degrees, only to find himself back at square one. He loves languages, but is trying to be a little less promiscuous and stick to just one.

His life goal is to raise dogs and pigs under the same organic roof.

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Mohini dropped out of an English literature course and is now a selftaught visual designer and artist.

She likes for her work to take her to unexplored skills and disciplines and to help foster collaborations across disciplines. Her pet projects have ranged from music festivals to browser games, with bold, effective communication that doesn’t lose its wit. Her free time is spent underwater, or buried in a book, and some day she would like to pet every dog in the world.

She lives in Mumbai, India but is always looking for collaborations and work that will change that.

Soumi Roy Chowdhury

Shivaram Narayanan

Project Manager

Creatives and Communication

Soumi Roy Chowdhury is at present, exploring the avenues of curation, especially in the fields of art and its influences in developing sustainable cultural practices. She completed her graduation with a Bachelors degree in Liberal Arts, majoring in Anthropology along with Psychology and English Literature as minors. She writes, and as an individual with interest, she enjoys documenting everyday life, understanding patterns of animate and inanimate existence, and harbinging on music from other people. She has been exploring avenues of gendered occupation of public spaces with her photography. As an independent, visual ethnographer sans formal training, she is comfortable in alien ecosystems and hopes to adapt varied systems of enculturation as her own.

Shivaram has been consistently committed to bringing the joy of origami and has been sharing his expertise with people from all walks of life. Shivaram opted for the home schooling system in order to pursue his efforts and passion in the complex art of Origami. He has thus been able to travel across the country and abroad and spread the joy of Origami to wider audiences. He published his first book of original designs titled – “FOLD IN FOLD OUT – Origami Originals” at the age of 16 which was launched in major bookstores across the country. In 2015 he published his second book – In The Fold – Heritage structures of India, that explored Indian heritage structures using origamic architecture. He is currently based in Goa, India and is exploring the different aspects of paper engineering. He also dabbles in music, magic, web development and design.

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Shazia Shaikh Project Manager

Shazia is an ordinary specimen of the extraordinary human species. She likes to tell stories of the places she sees and the people she meets. It is not always that easy, but she works very hard and does her best to do justice to her art.

Being an avid traveller, she spends most of her time wandering through remote Indian villages and small towns, photographing her subjects as they come.

Her lifestyle exposes her to many different cultures, which contributes to her understanding of human life and expands her knowledge of the human psyche.

She lives in Mumbai and graduated with a degree in advertising and communication from St.Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Mumbai.

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Aishwarya Kumar Project Manager

An artist, designer and researcher with a Bachelors Degree in Design from Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, Aishwarya has a history in, and predisposition to physical training in dance, theatre and sports, and a research interests that lie in the intersection of the Performing Arts and studies, Visual Anthropolgy, and Cultural Studies.

Since graduation she has had the opportunity to apply her learnings towards informal education and development sphere, public space and community domain, social and cultural transformation, in research and development of informal learning programs with arts and artist communities within urban development, game play and physical building, and facilitation.

Photographer, filmmaker, musician, traveller and chai drinker, John has travelled more than 20 countries. He loves to travel, because he loves to learn and because he loves people.

Douglas Gracias Documentation

Douglas, is a man of few words.

A cameraperson and a member of the documentation team, his role is to capture the process, development, interaction and other parallel activities of the Story of Space so as to utilise the power of the medium of moving images and sound to create an inventrorium which tells the Story.

Elles van Heijden Documentation

Elles is a qualified Physical Education teacher and has spent the last 14 years both teaching and promoting sports with local governments. She has managed sports projects, organised events, and leads the consulting team at her organisation. She believes that by working with a strong vision and set of values you can reach higher goals through sports. Elles is also discovering and learning about documentary photography.

She has completed a photo essay on a refugee in a camp in The Netherlands and is currently working on ‘selfies’ across borders.

John Lino

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and European languages, and does all she can to nurture every skill she learns.

Divya Sahasrabuddhe Documentation At first I thought I had to choose, and this is how it stands Should I choose working with my head, or working with my hands?

Over time I’ve come to know, the answer’s not elusive And so I put them both to work, the choice was not elusive.

Divya is a tourism professional and social researcher, currently working on an independant project focusing on India handicrafts and traditional craftspeople. She seeks to study and showcase artistry that embodies ancient indigenous wisdom to illustrate how industry can exist without damaging the environment, and uses creative channels to reach and engage a wider audience in important issues. She is a self-conferred Master of YouTube Tutorials. After teaching herself, she now mentors her local village girls in basic sewing techniques. She is also a aseasoned sailor, professional yoga teacher and speaks 6 Indian

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Supriti Malhotra Documentation

Supriti is a filmmaker and freelance journalist, who judges the gig economy with creative pursuits such as photography and painting. An avid gamer and adventure sports enthusiast, Supriti loves exploring different cultures and technologies, and is often seeking answers to existential questions, looking for differing contexts in a complex world.

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Abrar Burk

INDIA

Abrar Burk is a human-centered interaction designer by day, and a tinkerer and creative coder by night. His interests range from design research to service & systems design, social innovation and more. Simply put, systematically identifying, articulating and addressing problems of varying scales is what he likes to do. With a prior background in visual communication, he can also be finicky about typography and all that comes with it. To know more about his project, go to page 112.

strokes, colors and expression began.

A gold medalist graduate from Sir J.J. Institute of Applied Art, Mumbai and a Masters in Graphic Design from the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, Akash’s work tries to blur the line between art and design.

He is a type enthusiast and an avid illustrator whose projects range from simple sketches to grand spatial art.

To know more about his project, go to page 156. http://www.akashhalankar.com/

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Akash Raj HalankarÂ

INDIA

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Akash Sharma is an experimental artist whose works range from visual art, data mapping, data manipulation, algorithmic compositions, and sensor-based music.

He has a very strong foundation in engineering. He has developed several algorithms for sound manipulation and processing. He has handled multiple projects on various short films, albums, etc as a composer, engineer, and producer. To know more about his project, go to page 92.

Alex Gagliano

USA

Alex Gagliano is an astrophysicist working at Los Alamos National Labs on cosmology simulations and supernovae. He is interested in the intersection between astronomy and culture, specifically how society influences the way an individual sees and interprets the sky. Last year, he traveled to Gabon to study traditional West African astronomical beliefs. He presented the works this past November at a TEDx event in the US. Alex also completed an internship at the Office of Astronomy for Development in Cape Town, South Africa, where he interacted with a blind astronomer who inspired him to explore sound-based astronomy outreach practices. To know more about his project, go to page 190.

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Amar Kanwar

INDIA

Amar Kanwar was born in New Delhi in 1964. In 1984, while he was studying history at the University of Delhi, two events occurred that impacted his subsequent philosophical and artistic development. On October 31, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated

by Sikh bodyguards, resulting in mass retaliatory violence against Sikhs in Delhi. Then, on December 3, a toxic gas leak at the Union Carbide pesticide plant, known as the Bhopal disaster, killed thousands of people and exposed hundreds of thousands more. These pivotal experiences instilled in Kanwar a commitment to social activism. Kanwar works strictly with documentary and archival images. The Torn First Pages (2004–08) is included in the Guggenheim collection, is a nineteen-channel video installation arranged in three parts that surrounds the viewer with examples of oppression by and opposition to the Burmese military junta. The Sovereign Forest (2012) was exhibited at Documenta 13, where Kanwar outlined the defining characteristics of his practice.

Kanwar has had solo exhibitions at the Renaissance Society, Chicago (2003), Whitechapel Gallery, London (2007), Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris (2008), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2008), Haus der Kunst, Munich (2008), Marian Goodman Gallery, New York (2010), and Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland (2012).

He has participated in Documenta 11, 12, and 13 (2002, 2007, and 2012), Biennial Jogja XI, Indonesia (2011–12), and Being Singular Plural, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2012). A retrospective of his

cinematic oeuvre was presented at the 5th International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala in India (2012). He has been honored with the Golden Conch at the Mumbai International Film Festival (1998), Golden Spire Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival (1999), and Jury Award at the Film South Asia in Nepal (2001). Kanwar lives and works in New Delhi. To know more about his project, go to page 106.

the environment. She has also worked on assignments for cultural institutions, creating art workshops for children in housing projects, which are sponsored by UNICEF. Her art has been collected by Contemporary Art Fond and The Berezdivin Collection in Puerto Rico, and exhibited in France and the United States of America.

She currently teaches at the Paris College of Art. To know more about her project, go to page 146, 196. http://anabloom.com/

Ana Bloom

FRANCE

Ana Bloom is a French photographer, art director and visual artist. After completing a BA in History and a Master Pro in Visual Art, she worked as a fashion producer, and as a photo assistant for renowned French portrait and fashion photographers. She launched her personal career in 1998, collaborating with magazines like Libération, Télérama, Marie Claire, Dazed and Confused, The Independent, Cosmopolitan, the trend company “Studio Edelkoort”, Milk Magazine, le Monde, and Private, among others. Some of the biggest international brands have relied on her to build their image. Her art revolves around questions of identity and questions our relationship with nature and

Angela Chong

SINGAPORE

Angela Chong is a graduate from RMIT Bachelor of arts, Fine Arts (Honors), specializing in sculpture.

She has a keen interest in creating a narrative in her installation works.

A recipient of NAC Local Bursary and Georgette Chen Scholarship awards, her works deals with light and darkness, constantly blurring the line between fiction and ‘reality’.

She is currently interested in creating interactive works. She has been to several art residencies, namely, Nes Artist Residency in Skagaströnd, Iceland, in 2010, Youkobo Art Space in Tokyo, Japan, in 2008 and to the Sense of Fear Festival, Tabor, Czech Republic, in 2006. She has been actively exhibiting locally in Singapore as well as overseas PARTICIPANT BIOGRAPHIES

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including Indonesia and Australia. She is currently working as a part-time Lecturer at the LASALLE College of Arts with the Faculty of Foundation Studies. To know more about her project, go to page 194. http://angelac hong.wixsite.com/ the-encounter

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Ankita Shah

INDIA

Ankita Shah works with an arts and culture not-for-profit and cofounded The Poetry Club. As a part of TPC, she has curated many poetry reading events in the city including at the Lil Flea, Kala Ghoda Arts Festival, AIESEC Mumbai Youth Speak Forum, Canvas Kavita. She has also coconducted many introductory writing workshops. She has been featured at the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival 2016, Kavya Hotra Goa 2016 and the Poets Translating Poets Festival 2016, amongst others. To know more about her project, go to page 206.

Chitra Chandrashekhar is a visual storyteller and design educator who is interested in storytelling formats that require the audience’s participation to build the narrative, since most forms of storytelling are one-way with limited interaction between the storyteller and the listening audience. She is the creative founder of Mographies, an independent, organic, collaborative,and creative practice that specializes in design thinking and visual storytelling across media/ channels. She is currently a visiting faculty at the School of Design, Ambedkar University. Chitra completed her Masters in Design (Visual Communication) at IIT, Bombay. To know more about her project, go to page 186.

Claudia Sodini is a theatre, circus and science teacher. She has a degree in Computer Engineering and a PhD in Information Technology from the University of Pisa. In 2012, she decided to become a circus teacher and, thanks to the Second University Course in Motor Abilities in Circus Arts at the University of Rome, discovered the possibility of amalgamating Art and Science. Since then, all her theatre, circus and science courses for children have an interdisciplinary aspect. She gives workshops on mathematics, theatre, and circus to children of all levels, both in Italy and abroad. She has collaborated with national and international science communicators such as Agnese De Rito (Maths and Games), Cesco Reale (Math games Festival), Lorenzo Schmidt (Psiquadro), Giovanni Filocamo (Matefitness), and Andrea Vico (ToScience). She has also conducted lectures and workshops on “The Mathematics of Juggling” (at the international Math festival “Tutto è numero”). In 2011, she founded the production house K-Production. To know more about her project, go to page 112, 168.

https://www.facebook.com/Mographies/

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Coralie D’lima

INDIA

Claudia Sodini

ITALY

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Coralie D’lima is an interdisciplinary environmental scientist, interested in coastal social-ecological and other marine systems. She has completed a

Masters in Aquatic Ecology through the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Ecology (ZMT) and the University of Bremen, Germany. She also has a PhD in Environmental Sciences from James Cook University, Australia.

Her research interests broadly lie in understanding human interactions with other species, with the natural spaces that they inhabit, and the consequences of these interactions.

Her research work spans across a diverse array of topics pertaining to wildlife conservation, humanwildlife cooperation, wildlife tourism, sustainability, small-scale fisheries, and fish nutrition. She is a published author and has presented her work at several scientific conferences globally. She is passionate about the conservation of natural spaces, and the sustainable ways in which resources from these spaces can be used by people. To know more about her project, go to page 126.

bridge’ between Indian and foreign countries, for international projects with global media companies, such as: Lionsgate, Universal, MTV, Sony, Star TV, Channel [V], Moser Baer, Vogue, IMG Fashion For Relief, and Ford & Elite. Her expertise lies in producing impactful and original content, from concept to execution and delivery; launching international media brands into the India footprint region; executing on complex, international negotiations and productions. She is passionate about innovative content that helps create a new market and value network, with organizations that include transformational social responsibility as a priority. To know more about her project, go to page 180.

Diptej Vernekar

INDIA

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Devanshi Shah

INDIA

Deepti Datt

INDIA

Deepti Datt is an entertainment executive who has worked both in the US and India. She has worked extensively in the media industry, developing content, launching media brands, and successfully executing complex negotiations and productions.

She is noted for being the ‘cultural

London, Slovenia, Auroville and Japan. Among other things, she was a Track Manager and Co-curator for the Design track, at The Goa Project 2016, a fringe un-conference, and also worked as a Curatorial Associate at the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum in Mumbai for a short period of time. She is currently teaching at the Academy of Architecture in Mumbai.

To know more about her project, go to page 208, 216.

Devanshi Shah has a degree in Architecture and a Masters in History and Critical Thinking from the Architectural Association, London. She is a Mumbai based Architect, Writer and Designer, with a nomadic practice. Recently, she was a resident at The Utopia School in Copenhagen, where she helped run and conduct free public classes.

She was the Set Designer for an immersive theatre production for the U/A festival in Delhi. She has also participated in architectural and critical workshops in Leh, Mumbai,

Diptej S. Vernekar completed his Masters in Fine Art at the Sarojini Naidu School of Arts and Communication, University of Hyderabad and Bachelors at the Goa College of Art, in 2012. In December 2013, he was a part of a collaborative work for Trash Art Festival, an initiative of the City Corporation of Panjim, Goa. He has worked with theatre arts students of SN school, University of Hyderabad, with digital scenography for a piece called ‘physicosis 4.48’ and a site specific work titled ‘a part of extension and existence’. He was also awarded the Kala Sakshi award by the Kala Sakshi Memorial Trust, New Delhi in 2013. To know more about his project, go to page 120. https://www.diptejvernekar.in/

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Elisabeth Winkler

AUSTRIA

Elisabeth Winkler studied art history at the University of Vienna and specialized in the beginning of abstract art. She has done research fellowships in Paris, Washington and New York. For her postgraduate degree, she studied museology at the University for Applied Arts Vienna.

She worked for several galleries, such as Gallery Carinthia, Klagenfurt and Heike Curtze, Vienna and as a researcher at the Museum of Applied Arts Vienna, establishing the internetapplication and the Design Showcases for the MAK Design-Info-Pool. Since 2012, she has been working as an independent art historian and curator.

For about ten years she has also been working with René Fadinger on space-conceptions and site-specific installations. To know more about her project, go to page 162.

Flora Barros is a Brazilian contemporary dancer. She completed her BA (Hons) degree in Dance Theatre at Trinity Laban, in London. Fascinated by different approaches to dance, Flora is interested in the fusion of different cultures and artistic expressions as well as the linkages between dance and social projects. Her interest for choreography started very early and she had the opportunity to perform her own works in U.K., Denmark, Italy and Brazil. In 2014/2015, she participated, in the one month residency of the Story of Light Festival in Goa. She has worked with renowned choreographers, such as Matteo Fargion, Marie Gabrielle Rotie, Willi Dorner, Lizzi Knew Ross, among others. Returning to Brazil in 2012, she entered in Diadema Dance Company, where she woked for 2 years and performed works from Ana Botosso, Claudia Palma, Denise Namura e Michael Budgham. In 2014 she became an actress in Pia Fraus Theatre Company.

Since 2015, she is part of the cast of the Argentinian company Fuerza Bruta, touring in China, Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay. To know more about her project, go to page 160, 198. https://www.missingwomenproject.com/

https://migratorycultures.com/

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video projection mapping and large-scale public art. Hobbs’ video projection mapping workshops involve collaboration with artists, students and communities working across cultures and borders. His recent collaborations combine workshop and skill-share peer-to-peer learning models to develop community-based public artworks which address issues of digital culture and globalization through video projection mapping.

Hobbs produces large-scale public art, installations, and films. He received his BFA from California Institute of the Arts and his MFA from the Digital Arts and New Media program at University of California, Santa Cruz. He has served as a visiting professor at Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers in Paris and as researcher and lecturer at the University of California and California College of the Arts (CCA).

Hobbs is currently Assistant Professor of Digital Media Art (DMA) and Director of the CADRE Media Lab at San José State University in California. To know more about his project, go to page 68.

G. Craig Hobbs’ work explores the use of metadata, infrared computer vision, and open-source software for use in live cinema, locative media,

Gaurav Patekar

INDIA

Gaurav Patekar is a designer, maker and engineer. He completed his Post Graduate Diploma at the National

Institute of Design, Ahmedabad in 2015. He has worked as an Interaction Designer at Imaginea Design Labs in Hyderabad, and as a Design Consultant for the United Nations. He also has experience working independently on user experience and interface design projects for Clients Ecole Global, CampusLabs and HireFaculty. com. In 2014, he presented a Talk at the Interaction14 Conference arranged by IXDA in Amsterdam on the potential use of devices with characters as an interface tool. It was based on two of his previous projects, ‘Toasty’ and ‘Interactive Sign’. In 2015, he exhibited a kinetic sculpture titled ‘Circular Waves’ at Bengaluru Mini Maker Faire, and another kinetic sculpture titled ‘9 Concentric Rings’ in the 2016 edition of the same event.

In 2017, he was part of a panel discussion on the topic of ‘connecting art design and digital fabrication’ at Fabrication Asia Network Conference (FAN3) in Kochi, India. To know more about his project, go to page 164. https://gauravp.dunked.com/

and Firenze (PhD), and worked as a research associate at the universities of Grenoble (LPSC), Karlsruhe (ITP), and Milano (Statale). He has taught several courses at the undergraduate level in Grenoble (Universite Joseph Fourier), Karlsruhe (Universitaet Karlsruhe), Novedrate (E-Campus University) and Milano (Statale and Politecnico). He also works as a freelance translator (EN-IT) for Zanichelli, Codice, and Raffaello Cortina.

To know more about his project, go to page 142. https://www.facebook.com/TheEvolutionofVoid/ http://fisica.unipv.it/personale/Persona. php?ID=426

Gold&Silver

SOUTH KOREA

Helena Wolfenson has an undergraduate degree in Social Communication at PUC University in São Paulo. She started her professional life writing for Brasileiros magazine, an independent arts and politics publication. Later, she became the photo editor of Folha de S.Paulo, one of Brazil’s main media outlets.

In 2011, she moved to NYC where she studied Photojournalism and Documentary at the International Center of Photography (ICP). In NYC, she worked closely with the photographer Mary Ellen Mark. She also worked for Brooklyn Magazine, Vice Media, Folha de S. Paulo and as a teaching assistant at ICP. Nowadays Helena is based in São Paulo, working as a photographer and videographer. She is finishing her first feature film which she directed and produced. A documentary titled “Mud Trace”, that tells the story of the social and ecological disaster that happened in Mariana, Brazil in November of 2015 through the eyes of two boys in their early 20s. To know more about her project, go to page 160. https://www.missingwomenproject.com/

Pro-coincidence, anti-causal live band based in Seoul. To know more about the project, go to page 172.

Giuseppe Bozzi

ITALY

Giuseppe Bozzi is a theoretical particle physicist, working on the phenomenology of elementary particles in Hadron Colliders. He has studied physics in Pisa (Masters)

Hemant Sreekumar

INDIA

Helena Wolfenson

BRAZIL

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Arts and Digital Media. He does performance art with synthetic audio using principles of emergence and also produces visual media including prints and light based works. His works respond to notions of decay, generative bias and loss of semantics.

To know more about his project, go to page 172.

work has been featured in Science, Nature, Time, The Washington Post, on the History Channel, and National Geographic TV. To know more about his project, go to page 96. https://www.psi.edu/about/staffpage/throop

https://soundcloud.com/user275055162/hemant-sk

Institute B61 / Jan ´Swierkowski POLAND

Hojun Song

KOREA

Henry Throop

INDIA

Henry Throop is a Senior Scientist with the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona. He received a PhD in Planetary Science from the University of Colorado, USA, in 2000. He is involved with the New Horizon’s mission to Pluto, working with the visible-IR spectrometer team.

Dr. Throop has been a member of the science team for NASA’s New Horizons mission since 2003, and was involved in its historic flyby of Pluto in 2015. He has written award-winning software for operations planning.

He has also been involved with the Cassini mission’s imaging team in the data acquisition and analysis of ring studies. He is a frequent consultant to the US’s NASA and the National Science Foundation. While living in Africa, he worked extensively with rural schools, helping to develop their science programs. Dr. Throop’s 50

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Hojun Song is an artist who prefers to discover niches of technology and to mix them together. By detecting these niches he uses them as means of social commentary or as objects to express aesthetics. He likes to use microprocessors, sensors, PCB, and aluminium as textures and paints. His work has been exhibited internationally, and has been featured by reputed publications like BBC, The Telegraph, Reuter, Radio Nederland Worldwide, Deutschland Radio, New Scientist Magazine, Wired (UK/US) Magazine, Vogue Korea, Dazed & Confused Korea, etc. Hojun Song’s work is about creating narratives and drawing out questions around absurd objects he makes, like radiation jewelry and ‘the strongest weapon in the world’.

Recently, he launched his own small satellite, via the Open Source Satellite Initiative. Through his work, he likes to question some of the conventional thoughts on art, design and science.

To know more about his project, go to page 154, 172, 174.

Institute B61 was created in 2009 and premiered during UNESCO’s International Year of Astronomy 2009. It gathers scientists and artists from Poland, who present performances at the intersection of science and contemporary art. The Institute stages unique and intimate performances inspired by modern science, involving the best Polish musicians, actors and visual artists.

Each spectacle is an ephemeral experience in an intriguing space (museums, factory, fort, tenementhouse – always prepared as a site-specific event), which often makes it possible for the spectators to rediscover their own city. Viewers visit several interiors, installations, attend performances and concerts. For the last seven years, Institute B61 has been conducting intensive experimental research which has resulted in the formulation of over one hundred multimodal metaphors of scientific phenomena. Multiple sample groups made from 20,000 randomly selected volunteers from 5 countries have been involved in interacting with the findings of our interdisciplinary team. The project is led by Jan Świerkowski. To know more about the project, go to page 70. http://brewsterhub.com/

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Spatial Design. Her interests lie mostly in art and theater and she has worked with various collectives in the same field. She is also a part time photographer and her photographs have been exhibited in the Delhi Press Club and featured in several magazines. To know more about her project, go to page 188.

Julia Stern

Jackie Bertone

USA

FRANCE

Jackie Bertone is a third year Physics major with a dual minor in Astronomy and Music Technology at Virginia Tech. Two of her most significant passions in life are music and physics.

From a young age, she began composing and taught herself to play the piano. Now, she studies digital sound manipulation and composition while pursuing her degree in physics.

Last year, her interest in space led her to start a team to build an astronaut EVA tool for NASA’s Micro-g NExT program. The tool was tested at the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory in Houston, Texas and the research is currently being used to help engineers design better tools. To know more about her project, go to page 190.

Julia Stern is a sound and visual artist, composer of acousmatic music and therapist in Ericksonian hypnosis and clean language. Both as an artist and as a therapist, her work bears on presence, sensory perceptions, introspective explorations, and immersive experiences. Creative and Maïeutic processes are the heart of her work. She has studied Photo and Video at Ensad in Paris, then at Le Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporains, and acousmatic music at the CRD of Pantin. She has studied Clean Language and Symbolic Modelisation at Terres Inconnues, then Ericksonian Hypnosis at Noesis Institute.

To know more about her project, go to page 102, 182.

Jazeela Basheer

INDIA

Jazeela Basheer graduated from NID with a degree in Exhibition and

Johnny Miller

USA / SOUTH AFRICA Johnny Miller is a photographer and filmmaker specializing in documentary projects. He is based in Cape Town, South Africa, and has extensive networks and knowledge of contemporary African and world issues. His focus is on the urban, cultural, and social issues facing humanity in a fast-changing world.

He has received worldwide acclaim for his project “Unequal Scenes”, an aerial exploration of inequality in South Africa. Johny attended Dickinson College in Pennsylvania, USA, and the University of Cape Town. He has had his work featured in BBC, CNN, Der Spiegel, The Huffington Post, The Sunday Times (ZA), and many more publications. To know more about his project, go to page 94.

https://www.mathiasdurand.com/

http://unequalscenes.com/

Kalyani Tupkary

INDIA

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Kalyani Tupkary holds a degree in product design and now works at Honeywell Ltd. Being a very hands on person, she enjoys working with traditional artisans and their crafts. In the past she has worked with Echostream, a Sikkim based multidisciplinary studio. Kalyani’s work which has a unique, analog approach, and has been featured at various forums.

To know more about her project, go to page 188.

through an obvious or surprising opening. To know more about her project, go to page 150. http://karinvandermolen.nl

Lavina Pereira

INDIA

Karin Van Der Molen

NETHERLANDS

Karin van der Molen graduated as a human rights lawyer in 1990, and then set foot on a winding path in the arts. Since the last decade, she has been increasingly focusing on environmental, site-specific art. She works with the distinctive atmosphere or the pervading spirit of a place. In her art, she searches for new perspectives on the (disturbed) relation between humans and nature, both on a global and personal level. She says: “I live in an urban, digital and globalized world. By using mainly natural materials for my work, I try to seduce myself and others to get closer to, get involved, engage or even ‘enter’ into nature.” The outcome can be an installation or sculpture in which one can enter, either physically or mentally, 52

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Lavina Pereira writes poetry to move, inspire, heal, cause action and/or create new thought.

Currently, Lavina contributes as an editor to children book writer Mamta Bhatt and finance companyPersonalFN.com. She also dabbles in Food-Eco-SocialHealing projects in Goa and has had a career in HR- Learning and Development. To know more about her project, go to page 206.

Leonie Roessler received a Bachelor Degree in Composition along with a Minor in Dance Performance at California State University Northridge in 2010. She moved to the Netherlands and earned her Masters Degree in Composition at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague in 2013. She then completed a one-year course at the Institute of Sonology, where she focused on Field Recording and the Spatialization of Sound. In 2016, she finished the fourth and last year of the Contemporary Music through Non-Western Techniques Program at the Conservatory of Amsterdam. In 2016 alone, her works have been performed in The Netherlands, Switzerland, Japan, and the United States, and broadcast on radio stations in various countries, and her field recording soundscapes were chosen as winning entries of the Forum Wallis Ars Electronica Competition, as well as the GRIT Collaborative Competition. She is active as a performer, composer, and sound artist, and teacher in various countries and places near and far. To know more about her project, go to page 200. http://leonieroessler.com/

https://www.facebook.com/TPCMumbai/

Lionel Dentan

INDIA

Leonie Roessler

GERMANY

Lionel Dentan is a musician living in New Delhi, where he runs a home studio, record label and has

an array of analog synthesizers and modular sound devices. He is the co-founder of the Delhi-based collective Da-Saz, which features numerous instrumentalists, singers and percussionists and aims to create a platform for new styles of urban and traditional music through live performances and recorded albums.

As a musician, he works primarily with live electronics and modular systems. He has performed at different places around the world.

He is trained in Indian music and jazz. He has also composed music for dance performances and videos. To know more about his project, go to page 172. https://soundcloud.com/lionelbaba

Lokesh Karekar

INDIA

Lokesh Karekar is a visual artist specializing in illustration and design based in Mumbai. He graduated from Sir J.J. Institute of Applied Art. He is the founder/director of an independent illustration and design studio LOCOPOPO. Lokesh’s brand of contemporary graphics inspired by Indian culture has attracted several projects from Indian and international brands. He is also the co-founder/ editor of 100%ZINE. To know more about his project, go to page 130. https://locopopo.com/

Madhulika Sagaram

Manuel Scortichini

INDIA

ITALY

Madhulika S is an education expert with a PhD in Molecular and Environmental Plant Science and a Master’s with triple emphasis in Curriculum and Instruction, Social and Leadership Development from Texas A&M University. Her innovation in English learning using local languages, culture and way of life has been listed among the top 10 innovations in Asia and Africa in Secondary Education.

Dr. Madhulika has been invited to speak at two TEDx events in reputed Indian institutions. She has also developed The Studio approach of learning in India. Her vision has enabled collaboration of several schools through an empathy project called Gift Compassion.

Madhulika created a public installation called ‘A Spectacle: The Story of Light’ at the intersection of mathematics, art, anthropology and history, showcased at the Story of Light festival in Goa in 2015 and at the Hyderabad Literary Festival in 2016. Madhulika has designed and implemented science education programs which integrate arts based learning with Science and Mathematics. To know more about her project, go to page 212.

Manuel Scortichini is currently completing his Masters in Computational Design in Ascoli Piceno, Italy. He works for the cultural program of Das Andere, a non-profit institution in Ascoli Piceno, where he organizes architecture conferences. He is interested in the connections between art and science. In 2015, he participated in The Story of Light as a collaborator on the project ‘Light in Reflection’. To know more about his project, go to page 142.

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Mathias Durand is a French composer, producer and singersongwriter. At five, he learned

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to play the piano from his grandmother Félicie Duriez, after which, he started to play the guitar and sing. From 2006 to 2010, he studied acousmatic composition with Régis Renouard-Larivière in the conservatory Erik Satie in Paris. He released his debut album Broken Letters in 2008, followed in 2013 by another album titled ‘Caïn’, under the name IT. In the summer of 2009 in Calcutta, he started his training in Indian classical music with Pandit Santanu Bandyopadhyay.

In 2013, he learnt the sitar from Sri Shubo Chakraborty. He has also played guitar and sung with Alacazas Jasey, IT, John Ulysses Mitchell, Joseph Leon and nowadays with the Indo-French band Tritha Electric. To know more about his project, go to page 102, 182.

students and a faculty curator presented the work. The production group consisted of Eero Tiainen (New Media), Bryant Hoban (Sound In New Media), Mercedes Said (New Media), Gautam Vishwanath (Game Design), Laura Böök (Photography), Parvati Pillai (Visual Communication Design), and Pipsa Asiala (Producer and Tutoring Teacher). To know more about their project, go to page 128.

Astronomical Society, Publicity Officer and Council Member of the Society for Popular Astronomy, Press Officer for the International Meteor Organisation, and an editor for the IMO’s journal, WGN. She is currently a Lecturer in Astronomy at the University of Central Lancashire.

To know more about her project, go to page 90. https://drmeganargo.net/

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https://www.mathiasdurand.com/

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UK

Media Lab at Aalto University FINLAND

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Megan Argo

Megan Argo is an astrophysicist and public speaker with a passion for outreach, studying galaxies in the nearby universe with radio telescopes, and giving public lectures and schools workshops all over the country. She has worked as a researcher in the UK, Australia and the Netherlands. Her passion for sharing the wonders of the universe with children of all ages has taken her from northern Scotland to outback Western Australia, via rural India and cosmopolitan South Africa. She is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, IAU Commission C2 (Communicating Astronomy with the Public) organising committee, member of the Institute of Physics, honorary member of Macclesfield

INDIA

Miti Desai is a founder and creative head at Miti Design Lab. She is a designer, classical dancer and educator. Communication through the external medium of graphic design led Miti to an internal expression of body design, rediscovering Classical Indian Dance. Indian Dance has been the key to the artist’s return to her cultural roots, symbols and world-view resulting in an innate understanding of culture, aesthetics and its influence and inspiration in design, education and the environment. A fluidity of lines, an inner grace and innate understanding of form mark Miti’s dance. There is an absence of the need to impress or overpower; only a serene surrender and worshipful devotion are the essence of her dance. Miti has performed

extensively nationally and internationally. To know more about her project, go to page 96. http://www.mitidesignlab.com/

Nadine Baldow

Mudita Pasari

INDIA

Mudita Pasari is a narrative and strategic designer who works at the intersection of people, nature, narratives and spaces. She is trained as an Exhibition and Spatial Designer, from the National Institute of Design and has received her Masters in Design Education from the Rhode Island School of Design. Her research builds upon the role visual education plays in instigating the rebuilding of social perspectives--through reinterpreting ambiguity and embracing multiplicity. As a 2017 STEAM Maharam Fellow she is currently working to incorporate the discussion of shared urban spaces between wildlife and humans into the mainstream education system, starting in north-eastern India. To know more about her project, go to page 136. https://www.replenish.earth/bio/

Neha Rao

GERMANY

INDIA

Nadine Baldow creates a highly artificial kind of nature which reveals the uncontrollable and mighty side of earth. Her installations of colorful biomorphic structures, objects and photocollages arouse associations of the worlds of coral, plants, fungi or bacteria. She works mainly with artificial materials to explore the discrepancy between our idea of nature and reality. Her exhibited works are primarily site-specific installations, shown in rather unconventional places, such as the historical listed brewery Browar Mieszczański, in the European cultural capital Wroclaw in Poland. She has been studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden with Professor Bosslet since 2013. To know more about her project, go to page 152.

Neha Rao is a Sustainable Textile Designer.

She currently works as a freelancer on an exciting range of projects from sustainable product development, textile designing, design teaching, to developing unique colorants from the natural resources. She has a master’s degree from Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, and a bachelors degree from NID, Ahmedabad, India.

She has gained international experience while working for various textile companies and designers. To know more about her project, go to page 188.

https://www.nadinebaldow.com/ https://www.nadinebaldow.com/work/ human-occupier/ https://www.instagram.com/nadine_ baldow/

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Nick Sayers

Nick Sayers is an artist based in Brighton & Hove, UK. He creates artworks inspired by science, maths and physics, often made from recycled and everyday objects. His work explores the beauty of science and the creative potential of PARTICIPANT BIOGRAPHIES

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sustainable materials. He has brought his science activities to events like Abu Dhabi Science Festival, British Science Festival, Maker Faire, TEDxBrighton, Big Bang Fair and WOMAD. He has exhibited internationally, in Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Canada, United States, Holland, Portugal and Hungary. To know more about his project, go to page 90, 176. https://www.behance.net/nicksayers

NID: Exhibition Design INDIA

The 2014 batch of B.Des students of National Institute of Design (Ahmedabad), specializing in the multidisciplinary area of Exhibition Design are part of the team for this installation. In their fourth year, students are inquiring into the the philosophy and materiality of experience and interactions, in order to design experimental spatial communication and cocreate learning spaces. The batch includes Swarnika Nimje, Shubham Sahu, Samhitha Kottamasu, Ahelee Sarkar, Shipra Balasubramani, Rhea Kalapura, Ayushi Srivastava, Pradipta Ray, Nikhil Shreshta, Celeste Caur, Kajal Prabhakar, Varsha M. Kachhap, Arjun M.C, Manas Majhi and Pankti Jasoria. To know more about their project, go to page 134, 192.

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Pavithra Dikshit

INDIA

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Pankaj Sekhsaria is a researcher, activist, writer, photographer and an academician. He has worked for nearly 20 years with the environmental group Kalpavriksh mainly on matters related to the Andaman & Nicobar Islands, where he is also the editor of a newsletter on wildlife. He has written extensively on issues pertaining to wildlife and tribal rights (particularly in the Andaman & Nicobar Islands) for the Indian press. His debut novel, ‘The Last Wave’ set in the Andaman Islands, was published in 2014. In 2016, he put together his first photoexhibition on the islands. The exhibition is a consolidation of 20 years of pictures taken there, and in a sense, runs parallel to his novel. His doctoral thesis is a sociological study of research and innovation inside nano-science and nanotechnology labs in India.

He currently serves the role of senior project scientist at the DST Centre for Policy Research at the Department of Humanities and Social Science, IIT-Delhi. To know more about his project, go to page 140.

Pavithra Dikshit is a typographer, designer and artist. She is presently employed at Landor Mumbai. She is one-third of Postcard People – an avenue to revive sending out postcards, and one-eighth of Kadak – a collective of South Asian women that works with graphic storytelling of different kinds. Explorations in the cross-sections of life and design, within the Indian context, outline a major part of her practice as a designer. Her limited edition selfpublished book, ‘Discipline’, debuted at ELCAF as a short journal featuring paper salads. It is designed to discuss routines that have been her road to many discoveries. To know more about her project, go to page 214.

http://iitdelhi.academia.edu/ PankajSekhsaria

http://www.pavithradikshit.info/

Pedro Russo

PORTUGAL

Pedro Russo is presently the International Project Manager of Universe Awareness educational programme. He is passionately committed to using astronomy as an educational tool. Pedro is Chair of the Schools and Children Task Force of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) Astronomy for Development programme and Vice President of Commission Communicating Astronomy with the Public of the International Astronomical Union. Until 2010 he was the global coordinator for the largest network ever in Science Outreach, the International Year of Astronomy 2009. Pedro coordinated the planning, implementation, execution and evaluation of the global IYA2009 activities, projects and events. He was also responsible for the communication between the thousands of stakeholders of the project, including projects and national chairs, astronomy community, media and society with respect to all global IYA2009 issues. To know more about his project, go to page 118. http://home.strw.leidenuniv.nl/~russo/cv.html

Prafulatta Rajput

INDIA

Prafulatta Rajput is a dancer and has pursued learning Bharatnatyam for over a decade. Her passion is to depict new stories and to explore the fusion of modern stories with this ancient art form of storytelling and expression. She is also an Ayurvedic doctor with a medical qualification from the Maharashtra University of Health Sciences and also a member of Central Council of Indian Medicine. She is a yoga teacher too. In 2015, she got professionally connected with CleanCube, a Canadian Government sponsored research grant to create a sustainable social enterprise for marginalized women in India who would be manufacturing a very unique plant based water filtration medium from their own homes. Bharatnatyam, Ayurveda and Yoga are the principle areas of interest in her life. To know more about her project, go to page 126.

Priyam Vadaliya is a systems thinker, designer and a passionate social innovator. She earned her bachelors degree in Product Design from National Institute of Design (NID) in Ahmedabad, India. Since her graduation, she has been freelancing and applying her expertise in design thinking and systems design to a variety of projects. She has gathered learning experiences through traveling and participating in various fellowship programs such as the design fellowship from the Unschool of Disruptive Design at Berlin and the Design Now Summer school at Politechnico di Milano. She believes in multidisciplinary collaborations and is excited by the mutation of design process in different contexts.

Her growing interests involve data visualization and the intersection of public administration and design thinking. To know more about her project, go to page 188.

Pushpanjali Sharma and Gautam Nima INDIA

Pluggy

INDIA

Pluggy is a broad spectrum music composer and producer based in Goa. To know more about the project, go to page 172.

Priyam Vadaliya

INDIA

Pushpanjali Sharma (M.A. Interdisciplinary Studies, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA., U.S.A) and Gautam Nima (M.F.A. Dance and Choreography, Hollins University, VA., U.S.A.), are interdisciplinary performing artists based in Goa. They are engaged in developing performances and pedagogies PARTICIPANT BIOGRAPHIES

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that serve experiential knowing through embodiment, movement/ dance and somatic/mind-body practices. They believe that education is the way to bring about change, and that this can successfully happen through non-dual practices.

They also use performing arts in healing, self-knowing and personal transformation, and teach the same through different kinds of workshop models. Their work is developed through an interdisciplinary approach between performing arts (dance, music and theater) and spiritual/ mind-body practices. They are interested in reducing the gap between the audience and the artist and enhancing their experience by allowing them to be a part of our performance work through interaction and the audience’s own creative contribution. To know more about their project, go to page 218. https://www.gautanjali.com/

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of global art practice. To know more about their project, go to page 184. http://duet-app.com/duetVis/

Rahul Malandkar

INDIA

Rachana Patni Pereira INDIA

Rachana Patni Pereira is the founder of The Matrix of Enquiry. She does various kinds of interventions/ programmes that work on maximising the potential of relationships in our lives and our work. She used to run one-to-one leadership retreats and is the co-founder of Lightwork Retreats, an initiative which aims to create transformational experiences where participants can move towards their authentic growth. She designs, co-creates and facilitates integrated mind-body retreats for personal excellence and wellbeing. At the core of her human relations interventions is a wellrounded appreciation of dynamic and constructionist, theoretical and experiential approaches. She has been interested in space as a psychological, interpersonal and intrapersonal concept for over 22 years, and has explored it in various academic assignments and in her therapeutic and leadership work. To know more about her project, go to page 220. https://www.matrixofenquiry.com/

Rahul Malandkar is the cofounder of Apt, an Architecture firm based in Mumbai. Apt specializes in sustainable, minimal and functional design and seeks to create projects that are environmentally conscious and contextually appropriate. He is a graduate of J.J College of Architecture. His work spans from designing spaces to products to furniture. To know more about his project, go to page 130.

Ramneek Singh

INDIA

Ramneek Singh is a Hindustani poet (originally from Jammu) whose poems form a narrative that challenges the mainstream and gives voice to issues that politicians perpetually neglect. He is popular as a poet, activist, satirist and lyricist, covering hard hitting issues such as archaic

constitutional laws such as article 370 and 377, the conflict in Kashmir and questioning ideas of freedom in contemporary urban India. He has performed all over the country at events such as IIT Bombay Mood Indigo Culture Fest (Mumbai), Godrej Culture Lab, Difficult Dialogues (Goa), Kala Ghoda Arts Festival (Mumbai), and at various open mics in Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Pune and Bangalore.

To know more about his project, go to page 206.

building mobile, educational escape rooms for upper-secondary students.

He did his PhD in Science Education from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, and is a graduate of the Mandel Scholars in Education program for distinguished PhD students in the field of education. To know more about his project, go to page 112, 166.

Robin Lasser

USA

René Fadinger was born in 1974 in Vienna, Austria. He grew up in Austria and Slovakia, lives and works in Carinthia, Austria, and spends several months in India every year. He studied at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Institute of Fine Arts. Since 2012 he has been teaching at the Independent Academy of Fine Arts, Carinthia.

René’s approach is experimental and many-layered. He combines a variety of different techniques, builds three-dimensional objects, which could also be interpreted as architectural models; he paints, draws, makes experimental-videos, takes photographs and is recently working on augmented reality projects as well.

To know more about his project, go to page 162.

Robin Lasser is a Professor of Art at San Jose State University. She produces photographs, video, sitespecific installations and public art dealing with environmental issues and social justice. Lasser often collaborates with other artists, writers, students, public agencies, community organizations, and international coalitions to produce public art and promote public dialogue. Recent international exhibitions include installations at museums such as: The Metenkov Museum of Photography, The Recoleta Cultural Center and The Caixa Cultural Center. Lasser has also participated in several international biennials. She has had her work displayed in national and international exhibitions like: Aronson Galleries – Parsons School of Design, Wave Hill Glyndor Gallery, County Museum of Art, the De Young Museum and the Exploratorium Observation Gallery, the Osaka World Trade Center Museum and the Academy of Film in Prague. Lasser is currently the US project lead and a participating artist in a cross-cultural art exchanges between Russia, Iran, India and the U.S. To know more about his project, go to page 68.

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https://migratorycultures.com/

https://www.facebook.com/TPCMumbai/

René Fadinger

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Ran Peleg

ISRAEL

Ran Peleg is a multidisciplinary educator who links science and arts for learning. He trained as a Chemical Engineer at the University of Cambridge. However, he soon left the engineering world and joined a dance company, after which he trained in other performing arts. He uses his multidisciplinary background to form creative and motivating learning environments for students.

Some of his projects include producing educational plays on science; studying the learning outcomes of students watching the plays in schools and museums; teaching science through miming stories; designing the curriculum of an interdisciplinary STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts) programme; and

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Robin Meier

Rucha Joshi has a very different outlook towards product design. She is interested in human centric design, system-mapping and-analysis and speculative design. In the past she has worked with Propelland, a studio in San Francisco as well as various product design studios within the country. She now works with Zensar Technologies, Pune. To know more about her project, go to page 188.

Sally Kidall

SWITZERLAND

AUSTRALIA

Robin Meier is a Swiss artist and composer exploring the emergence of natural and artificial intelligence and the role of humans in a world of machines. He tries to make sense of these questions through his installations, objects and compositions. Referred to as “Artist of the future” (le Monde), “Maestro of the Swarm” (Nature) or just “pathetic” (Vimeo) his works are shown in international venues and events such as Palais de Tokyo, FIAC and Musée d’Art Moderne Paris, Art Basel Switzerland, Shanghai Biennale or the Eli Broad Art Museum in Lansing Michigan. Robin Meier also works as a computer music designer for IRCAM / Centre Pompidou (Paris), CIRM (Nice) and various other institutions or ensembles. To know more about his project, go to page 66, 108, 172.

Sally Kidall did a Sculpture Degree at Norwich School of Art, UK, 1983, and later completed her Masters at Portsmouth University, UK, 2006. Since then, she has exhibited throughout the UK and Australia. In 2012, she represented Australia in Kiev, Ukraine at the inaugural International Contemporary Sculpture Festival. In 2014, she was invited to create a piece in Grand Canaria, Spain, for AININ Symposium. In 2015, she was the feature artist for “Step In Stone” a sculpture trail sited in abandoned stone quarries in Somerset, UK. In 2016, she travelled to New Zealand to create a new work for Harbourview Sculpture Trail.

Kidall has lectured at University of NSW (UNSW) and University of Technology (UTS), Sydney in Design & Sustainability, for the Interior Architecture BA and lectured at University College of the Creative Arts (UCCA) Surrey, UK with Industrial Design/Sustainable Futures BA. To know more about her project, go to page 150.

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S Bhuvaneshwari

INDIA

S Bhuvaneshwari’s area of interest and study is Indian Philosophy from Sanskrit sources. Her PhD at the University of Madras (2010) is a focused study on pedagogy as seen in the tradition of Advaita Vedanta. She is presently a postdoc IIT-Madras in Chennai, where she is working on the Principles of Mimamsa in Advaita Vedanta. She has been teaching Indian Philosophy & Aesthetics since 1997. She has published 20 articles and two books on Indian Philosophy. Between 1991 and 1995, she performed as a Bharatanatyam dancer. During this time, she has also worked with Contemporary Choreographer Chandralekha and performed in four of her major productions. To know more about her project, go to page 142, 148.

https://sallykidall.wordpress.com/

Sameer Kulavoor

INDIA

Sameer Kulavoor is a visual artist living and working in Mumbai, India.

His work lies at the intersection of contemporary illustration, graphic design and art. His personal projects have taken the form of books, zines, art-prints, murals, t-shirts, objects and exhibits. He collaborates with a range of organisations, brands and people, within India and outside. He is the founder/director of Bombay Duck Designs – an independent illustration design studio & self-publishers. He is also the co-founder and editor of 100%ZINE (a themed visual art zine).

To know more about his project, go to page 130.

Santiago Lusardi Girelli is an Argentinian-Italian conductor, has worked as a choir and orchestra conductor in Argentina, Venezuela, Germany, Belgium, Bolivia, Peru, Italy, France, Germany, Belgium, Spain and India. He is also a performer, composer and scholar of theological & philosophical traditions of the East and West. He is co-director of the “Seville Symphony Orchestra Hispalense” (Spain) and Second Conductor at the Seville University Choir. He has been the founder and conductor of the Seville Chamber Choir and Orchestra since March 2010. Currently, he has the Anthony Gonsalves Chair as Visitor Professor at Goa University, working as lecturer and founder of the Goa University Choir (since 2013). To know more about his project, go to page 66.

in the department of Neurology at the Sanjay Gandhi institute of medical sciences, Lucknow. He holds an MD Medicine degree from Seth GS and KEM hospital, Mumbai. To know more about his project, go to page 206. https://www.facebook.com/TPCMumbai/

Snehal Thomas Jacob (Sound.Codes) INDIA

Snehal Thomas is an experimental artist/musician with a background in graphics and sound design whose work range from, visual art, soundscape and texture based compositions, mix-media and audio visual installations. To know more about his project, go to page 92.

http://sameerkulavoor.com/

Siddharth Warrier

http://sound.codes/

INDIA

Santiago Lusardi Girelli SWITZERLAND

Siddharth Warrier is a Mumbaibased poet and doctor, who is interested in the possibilities of neurology as a basis for explaining human behavior, and thereby, its consequences. His poems explore the interplay of human emotions and scientific phenomena. He has performed at various literature festivals and cultural events across the country, such as the Kala Ghoda festival in Mumbai, and Lucknow literature festival. Currently, he works

Sundar Sarukkai

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Sundar Sarukkai is currently a Professor of philosophy at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore. He is the author of the following books: Translating the World: Science and Language, Philosophy of Symmetry, Indian Philosophy and Philosophy of Science, What is Science? and The Cracked Mirror: An Indian Debate on Experience and Theory (co-authored with Gopal Guru). He is an Editorial Advisory Board member of the Leonardo Book Series on science and art, published by MIT Press, the Series Editor for Science and Technology Studies, Routledge and the Chief Editor of the Springer Handbook of Logical Thought in India. He actively conducts outreach programs in philosophy for non-specialist audience as well propagate philosophy in the public through his newspaper columns.

To know more about his project, go to page 221.

with various modern technologies— lenticular prints and animated light boxes—to add movement, depth and an all-round dynamism to her art. She completed her MA at Goldsmiths, London, in Photography (The Image and Electronic Arts) and has completed successful solo shows at Gallery 545 (Bangalore), the Lalit Kala Akademi (Chennai) and most recently, at Gallery Sumukha (Bangalore). Her work has also been published in the art journal The Fuchsia Tree. She is part of the Artist Pension Trust and The Art Place collection. To know more about her project, go to page 202. http://tanyamehta.com/

funded productions: The Tap Dancing Mermaid, Arnold’s Big Adventure, The Melody Makers and her latest show, A Strange New Space. In 2013, Tessa joined forces with Tomasin Cuthbert (Soap Soup Theatre) and Liz Hart (Bric A Brac Productions) to form a new theatre company, Lady Strong’s Bonfire. They have since made The Bed, Mummy Monster and The EnviRons. She is also an author of children’s fiction and self-published her first book, The Tap Dancing Mermaid in July 2015. Joe ​Stathers is a freelance video projection & lighting designer working around the UK and beyond, on theatre, opera, music and dance shows, and outdoor events. To know more about her project, go to page 98. http://tessabide.com/ http://www.joest.co.uk/JoeST/Home.html

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Tanya Mehta

INDIA

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Tessa Bide

Tessa Bide is a theatre maker, producer and performer specialising in puppetry, physical theatre and music (trumpet, piano, ukulele and singing). In addition to freelancing for other companies, she makes innovative theatre productions for family audiences with her own theatre company. Her shows tell original stories, aimed at encouraging a dialogue between the generations.

She is passionate about delivering high-quality theatrical experiences to children that inspire and excite but do not patronise. Tessa has made four Arts Council England-

Thomas Heidtmann

GERMANY

Thomas Heidtmann is a media artist, formally educated at the Berlin University of the Arts with an emphasis on painting and New Media. He is co-founder and board member of Lacuna Lab e.V., an artist-run association, collaborative community, and space in Kreuzberg, Berlin, working at the intersection of arts, science, and technology.

He also is founder of the Space Art Hackathon SPARTH. He has

presented at ISEA in Hong Kong, Vorspiel / transmediale & CTM and Retune festival Berlin, Germany.

He was involved in projects at Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin and Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona, Spain, and lectured for example at MartinGropius-Bau Berlin and Goethe-Institut Max Mueller Bhavan Bangalore, India. To know more about his project, go to page 210.

involved providing city governments with her concept of Replenish, a per capita assessment of ecosystem services and publishing her book, Replenish. To know more about her project, go to page 136. https://www.replenish.earth/bio/

Tsuneo Sekiguchi

JAPAN

http://thomasheidtmann.de/

TR Ananthnarayanan

INDIA

Tia Kansara

INDIA

Tia Kansara is an award-winning entrepreneur moderator, lecturer and author. She is the founder and director of Kansara Hackney Ltd. (KH), the first ISO quality controlled sustainable lifestyle consultancy in the UK. Tia completed her Ph.D. at the Bartlett, University College London on designing future cities and energy evaluation in the Gulf. Since then she has published several papers and has been invited to advise on sustainable cities with governments and the private sector as well as give keynote speeches at conferences around the world, such as the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and BioTrade Initiative on Sustainability. Her recent work

TR Ananthnarayan has spent several years involved in the study and practice of the various aspects of Indoor Free Flight Aero-modelling. He provides consultancy to plan strategies and execute workshops/events in the various categories of indoor free flight aero-modelling around India and abroad. He also conducts training for instructors who can then go on to conduct workshops in their respective regions, in order to create a larger pool of indoor free flight aero-modellers. To know more about his project, go to page 178.

Tsuneo Sekiguchi is a Japanese artist who makes rainbows with a prism of water and a mirror that reflects sunlight. His main project as an artist is constructing rainbows. He made his first rainbow hut in Goa in 1989.

Since then, he has been making rainbows in Japan, New Zealand, Taiwan and India. The concept behind his work is to create a space for people to understand themselves as primitive human beings, dancing around a fire. His work is directed at helping people notice who they are because he believes that when people understand this, they will face reality as they have never done before. To know more about his project, go to page 122.

Veronica Deviá

BRAZIL

Veronica Deviá has two undergraduate degrees (Journalism and Social PARTICIPANT BIOGRAPHIES

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Sciences) and a Masters in International Relations. She is a researcher in Gender Studies and her thesis theme is on the “Female Labour Force Participation in Developing Economies - A Study Case in Brazil and India”, which was presented at the International Studies Association in Baltimore (USA), in February 2017. Her paper “Closing the Gender Gap in BRICS” was also presented at the International Political Science Association Congress in Poznan (Poland), in June 2016.

Her previous work experiences are in journalism, where she worked as a cultural journalist with Brazilian and international media (Veja, Estadão, Vice, Café Babel, Vogue) and with cultural institutions (SESC, Bienal de Arte de São Paulo, Columbia Global Center Latin America, Cultural Department at the French Embassy in São Paulo). In the past years, she has also been involved in feminist activism, as a member of a thinktank on Women and Politics (GEPO). She is also an active member of an NGO for women empowerment (Mulheres do Brasil). To know more about her project, go to page 160. https://www.missingwomenproject.com/

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Installations Live Experiences Workshops

LIVE EXPERIENCE

SATELLITE SONATA Robin Meier

Curator: Shazeb | Venue: Kala Academy Amphitheatre

Launched in 2006, the European Space Agency’s CoRoT satellite measures the minuscule variations of the light of stars.

This twinkling of stars can be translated into sound through digital synthesis. Using techniques of spectral composition and various contemporary notations, these stellar sounds are then re-transcribed for brass ensemble.

P HY S I C S

Through close collaboration, a local Indian brass ensemble, unfamiliar with contemporary music and playing styles, is trained in the interpretation

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of this score. Over two weeks, the musicians learn to play these new sounds and collectively elaborate on the new music. Finally, the musical project is tied together comprehensively through an object created specially for this performance: a meteorite instrument. The instrument is fashioned from a fragment of the famous Muonionalusta meteorite which crashed into the northern part of present day Sweden, about a million years ago. The instrument accompanied the brass band at the opening ceremony of the festival.

LIVE EXPERIENCE

WORKSHOP

MIGRATORY CULTURES G. Craig Hobbs, Robin Lasser

Curator: Shaira | Venue: Menezes Braganza Garden | Workshop Audience: Student Group (Age 17+)

P O LI T IC S

Migratory Cultures is a global, collaborative art project. It currently involves students, artists and professors from San JosĂŠ State University in California, Srishti Institute of Art, Design & Technology in Bangalore and The Story of Space. Prior to The Story of Space, the Migratory Cultures team had been collecting, editing and translating local stories of migration in Hindi, Kannada and English in Bangalore, India.

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communities in Goa, and added them to their archive. In this live experience, footage of migration and diaspora is documented and projected using video mapping techniques. The videos are projected onto the irregular surfaces of urban architecture. Previous projections have been developed and presented in a number of locations in the United States. They include immigration stories told by people from 15 countries.

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EVOLUTION OF THE STARS Instytut B61 / Jan Ĺšwierkowski

Curator: Jaya | Venue: Start Point Luis Gomes Garden

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This set of 13 audio-visual and theatrical performances tell the story of the life and death of a star. Through performance, the Polish science-arts group Instytut B61 and their team of artists from around Goa and India, describe the evolution of matter from the clouds of cold gas and dust, through the main sequence stars, the amazing supernovae blast and finally, the 72

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presence of stellar metals in human blood. These metaphoric narratives touch on the subject of place and the meaning of humans in cosmic space. In explaining that the cosmos is built of stars and galaxies rather than planets, continents or countries, this experience drives home the point that human beings also are made of the stuff of stars.

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Room 1 Evolution of the Stars kicks off, with a homage to great minds that ‘birthed’ the Secret Laboratory at Goa and with an interrogation.

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Room 2 The Universe as we know it, has an underlying code embedded deep within. The participants indulge in a physical transformation from looking

at the universe, through a decimal perspective to a binary experience, that represents the probability of events. Perhaps ‘god’ does play dice.

Room 3 A ritual room begins the journey of the birth of our star. There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on Earth. Can we begin to count and

comprehend the number of grains of sand we can carry in a fist?

Room 4 The probability of multiple dense clusters of gas coming towards each other to begin to form a protostar is similar to the probability and

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relationship between strangers on the streets of Goa being connected through each other.

Room 5 The wedding begins

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Room 5 The wedding celebration, where the bride picks one out of three possibilities. Her choice determines the journey onward for the star.

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This choice representing the mass of the star, that influences the life and death of a star. Experience features : Goan Band, dancer.

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Room 6 Main Sequence Star : A main sequence star, the early adult journey in the life of a star is a series of explosive high energy reactions, where stars begin to gain

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weight following a series of heavy atoms and elements being formed.

Experience : scenography, light installation, actors, live performance by the band, Laxmi Bomb.

Room 7 The Red-Giant, one of the next possible stages in the life of a star, as all the hydrogen in the star gets burnt and the star expands and cools

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as it continues to burn the hydrogen in the outer shell. Experience : scenography, singer

Room 8 From the Red giant, low mass stars, transform into wisps and clouds of gas. This stage and room represent the Planetary Nebulae stage in the life of a star. Experience : actors, performers, scenography, edible art

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Room 9 At the core of the Planetary Nebulae and the last stage of a low mass star is a White Dwarf after all the Nuclear reactions come to an end. Experience : actors, singing bowls, performers.

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Room 10 A high mass star after the Red Giant Stage, rapidly collapses unto itself into a massive explosion and shock wave called a Supernova.

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Room 11 A supernova event is followed by a collapse of a high mass star into itself leaving only highly dense colliding neutrons behind. Performers, Gautam and

Pushpanjali perform the Neutron Star with artist Stefan Kornacki’s kinetic sculpture.

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Room 12 A supermassive star forms a Black hole as it dies and artist and singer Lubomskie Manki, performs a haunting vocal performance that represents the disappearance of the star.

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CYCLE THE SOLAR SYSTEM Nick Sayers, Megan Argo

Curator: Jaya | Venue: Start - Entertainment Society of Goa

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Cycle the Solar System was a 4.5km cycle ride along the Panjim city coast road, in order to explore our solar system at a scale of 1:1,000,000,000.

It was led by astrophysicist Megan Argo, who gave a guided tour of the planets (represented by flags and fruits) along the way. During this tour, participants explored the very different sizes and environments of the Sun, eight planets and asteroid belt. They also saw the scale of the planets in the context of the urban environment, and were able to gain a better understanding of their nearby neighbourhood in space.

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ACOUSTIC HISTORY OF GOAN HERITAGE Akash Sharma, Snehal Thomas (Sound.codes)

Curator: Shazeb | Venue: Fundacao Oriente

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Sound helps to measure space and make it comprehensible. The project was spurred by the view that existing records of surviving historical spaces will lose their intended meaning over time. The installation recreates the distinct soundscapes of several Goan heritage landmarks. This is an effort to preserve an indelible record of the acoustics of each space. On entering a dark room, visitors move through an aural replica of local historical spaces, appreciating the unique acoustic backdrops of each. This is an interactive exploration of Goa’s history and heritage. Here the past isn’t presented merely as historical information, but as an experience. Set in a space in a heritage belt of the city of Panjim, architectural history in the form of sound is recreated by Sound.Codes. A special audio-mapping process and binaural microphones are used to create an immersive, 3D sound experience. In a binaural recording, two microphones are positioned in a way that mimics the human ear as closely as possible. The sound thus captured is as close to what one would experience if one was physically in that particular place.

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UNEQUAL SCENES Johnny Miller

Curator: Rahul | Venue: Central Library

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The beauty of being able to fly is the opportunity to see things from a new perspective. From the air, in contrast to what one observes from the ground, shocking scenes of inequality in the distribution of human spaces emerge.

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Miller captures the most visible scenes of economic difference and class hierarchy present in the landscapes he visits.

As objectively as possible, his photo exhibit offers a new perspective on a distressingly old problem. Miller hopes that his photographs provoke a dialogue that could begin to address issues of inequality and disenfranchisement in a productive manner.Â

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SCALES OF TIME

Henry Throop, Miti Desai

Curator: Jaya | Venue: Garcia De Orta

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What is time? How do different cultures define time? What are the differences between the timescales used by humans, the timescales used to describe the physical world around us, and the Vedic timescale? As humans, our internal clock is tuned to measure things in terms of seconds, to years. But to a hummingbird, human timescale may seem extraordinarily slow. And to a sloth or a giant tortoise, humans may seem inordinately fast. The Vedic time system

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is unique in that it can describe times from billions of years, to tiny fractions of a second. In this performance, astronomer Henry Throop and dancer Miti Desai describe and interpret the different timescales used in science and culture. The audience is invited to participate by contributing their observations of the local environmental timescales in Goa--from the motion of waves, to the setting of the sun, to the beating of the heart.

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A STRANGE NEW SPACE Tessa Bide

Curator: Lina | Venue: Sadhana Dell Arte, Institute Menezes Braganza | Workshop Audience: 4 - 11 years

Amira is completely obsessed with space and dreams of becoming an astronaut. But one night, the bangs, whooshes and fizzes of her imagination explode right out of her dreams, becoming a deafening reality. In the darkness, Amira must leave her hometown to go on an adventure, to find a safe space.

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which was paralleled with her real-life journey as a refugee across continents.

During Tessa’s time in Goa, she underwent a week-long residency working with children through local schools and charities. She introduced themes from her show A Strange New Space to them, and used games to research their understanding of refugees and migrants. The wor kshop included: 1. Puppet making and puppetry skills 2. Physical games and improvisations 3. Imagination play - exploring the show’s themes of space, jour neying and new spaces.

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ACOUSMATIC CLEAN SPACE Julia Stern, Mathias Durand

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Curator: Jaya | Venue: Fundacao Oriente

Acousmatic sound and music has developed from the Pythagorean idea that in order to fully concentrate on and appreciate audio, you should not be able to see where it is coming from.

materials in their surroundings. These sounds— voices, music, soundscapes, were invitations to link personal memories, thoughts or feelings with the participant’s understanding of the space.

In this interactive installation, Mathias and Julia invited participants to experience a ‘clean space’. They were asked to enter it with a specific subject or question in mind which they then placed in the room.

The associations that participants made between the inner space and the surrounding space produced new knowledge and viewpoints about their initial question. This clean space installation helped reveal to participants unexpected and helpful information which related to the question or subject they kept in mind at the starting point.

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A NIGHT OF PROPHECY Amar Kanwar

Curator: Rahul | Venue: Fundacao Oriente

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Through poetry emerges the possibility of understanding the past, the severity of conflict and the cycles of change. The film travels in the states of Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Nagaland, and Kashmir. Through poetry you see where all the territories are heading towards, 108

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where you belong, and where to intervene, if you want to. The narratives merge, allowing us to see a more universal language of symbols and meanings. This moment of merger is the simple moment of prophecy.

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SATELLITE SONATA (MUONIOLUSTA) Robin Meier

Curator: Shazeb | Venue: Adil Shah Palace

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The molten core of a protoplanet hurtles through space for 4.5653 billion years. After a violent collision rips it out of the planetary disk that will become our solar system, it cools a few degrees Celsius every 100,000 years. Its atoms interlock to form a crystallized metal. Finally, it collides with Earth and is preserved through 1 million years and 4 ice-ages in the Tundra of Sweden near the Muonio 110

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river. Using techniques perfected by artists including Pinuccio Sciola in Sardinia and Svaram in Pondicherry, a satellite was made to vibrate at its unique resonant frequencies. In a sense, producing the sounds of the stars. The instrument is probably the oldest thing that any visitor will ever encounter. This installation serves as a reminder that there is poetry in pure data collected by a satellite orbiting the stars.

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EX NIHILIO ESCAPE ROOM Ran Peleg, Claudia Sodini, Abrar Burk

Curator: Jaya | Venue: Sukerkar House

seemed to be an empty space revealed hidden ‘energies’—light, sound and wave— whic h though invisible, are always present, and proved to be the key to solving the clues.

In Ran and Claudia’s escape room, groups of participants were invited to begin by carefully examining a box to discover a clue. This clue led to another clue, and so on, until what

The idea behind this game was to inspire people to investigate the s pace around them u s in g ever yday tec hnologies.

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Creatio ex nihilio, which means creation out of nothing, is a mobile scientific escape room: a game where participants are locked into a room and have an hour to escape it by solving several puzzles.

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SCIENCE COMMUNICATION GETTING CREATIVE Pedro Russo

Curator: Jaya | Venue: 91 Springboard | Workshop Audience: Science Communicators

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What is the interface between science and society? This workshop explored, in a practical way, the common space of science and society. Participants explored several examples of public engagement with science, from video production to dialogue events. The workshop also provided some ideas on how science communication can become a creative industry. Participants were able to gain real experience in how to develop and implement science communication projects of different scales and approaches.

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ANATOMICAL STUDIES OF OUR ANCESTORS Diptej Vernekar

Curator: Shaira | Venue: Adil Shah Palace

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In 15th century Japan, a shattered Chinese tea bowl in the palace of a Japanese king inspired Japanese craftsmen to look for more aesthetic means of repair. Some even began to deliberately smash valuable pottery to find a new technique. Bits of these shards made their way to Goa through the sea trade route. Years later, these shards were discovered by a local fisherman, and stitched with black joinery, a technique he knew from years of stitching boats with tar.

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due to Goa’s hot climate. Diptej’s sculptures at The Story of Space were about the history of material.

They were made from materials that link back to Portuguese colonialism in Goa. The concept of time, or constant change, tied the sculptures together.

These sculptural objects were partial truths, always affected by the space they inhabited. Whether made of melting wax, drying shrubs, or melting tar— all the materials used in the sculptures were metaphorical representations of our own mortality.

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RAINBOW ON WHEELS Tsuneo Sekiguchi

Curator: Deshna | Venue: Garcia De Orta

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Tsuneo used the rainbow as light for his installation, because he felt that we tend to forget about natural light, and pay more attention to lights from our like screens instead.

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light in the form of a rainbow and meditate on it, similar to how a yogi meditates with candle light.

The rainbow was projected at many different sites around Panjim, for example: a market, a garden, a stage, and even on people.

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CONSERVATION IS A STORY OF SPACE Coralie D’Lima, Prafulatta Rajput

Curator: Shaira | Venue: Institute Menezes Braganza

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The science of conservation is a story in which humans interact with wild species, the natural spaces they inhabit, and the consequences of this interaction. Dr. Coralie D’Lima told this story through a historical account of conservation’s growth as a science, using real-world examples. She discussed how the traditional relationship between humans and natural spaces has declined and moved towards a more protectionist approach, and how the importance of humans in conservation has now been re-established in recent years.

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She highlighted past approaches to conservation in India, the failure of the Western model of protection, and its negative outcomes. Coralie also talked about solutions that maintain an inclusive relationship between humans and the wild. Running alongside the talk was a Bharatnatyayam dance narrative by Dr. Prafulatta Rajput, which had been conceptualised by her. She choreographed this performance with her Guru Ms S. Durga Lakshmi and performed with Nrithiya Neelambari.

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NORTHERN SHADOWS Aalto University Media Lab

Curator: Akshay | Venue: Sukerkar House

How do you create stillness in one of the busiest places in the world?

Northern Shadows brought an idea of silence, distinct to Finland, into Goa, in an attempt to put a halt to some of the noise and movement that surrounds us here.

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light drifted around the space, how the floor shifted and shook. Led by faculty curator Pipsa Asiala, the Media Lab group from Aalto University created Northern Shadows, as a means to explore the possibilities that technology opens to new ways of communication and expression, in order to deal with current technological challenges in design and creative production.

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FREEDRAW

Sameer, Lokesh, Rahul

Curator: Deshna | Venue: Garcia De Orta, Fontainhas | Workshop Audience: All

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depicted individual experiences of public space; the behaviour of passersby, colours, architecture, and cultural and social details, which are first visible in the space and then in the drawings. Each drawing differed in the perspective it offered, ranging from layered observations of Fontainhas, the Latin Quarter, and the Panjim market, to impressions of the space inspired by the artists’ unique view of their surroundings.

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COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS

National Institute of Design - Exhibition Design Students (2014 Batch) Curator: Deshna | Venue: Adil Shah Palace

Have you ever thought about how tiny you are in relation to the whole universe?

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These frames were a scale model of the night sky, arranged to depict light years as distances between the celestial bodies. Through the use of lighting and interactive features, the installation acted as an educational tool, where one could learn about constellations and the stars, while appreciating the vastness of outer space and the distances it contains.

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WHO DOES THE SEA BELONG TO? Tia Kansara, Mudita Pasari

Curator: Deshna | Venue: Goa Science Center

Tia Kansara and Mudita Pasari researched shared spaces between humans and wildlife to create an installation that explored the relationship between garbage dumping, jellyfish and life underwater. Sea turtles have been consuming plastic bags, mistaking them for jellyfish. While plastic and jellyfish are on the rise, sharks and other predators are decreasing due to our waste disposal habits. Tia and Mudita shed light on these issues through an immersive visual of the sea. As audiences walked through the container, they were encouraged to ponder over the question “to whom does the sea belong to?�

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If we pollute the ocean to clean our private spaces, whose responsibility is it to clean up the ocean?

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ISLANDS IN FLUX Pankaj Sekhsaria

Curator: Jaya | Venue: Central Library

When you live on an island, awe, fear and humility at the beauty and impermanence of nature are everyday emotions.

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In his photography exhibit, Pankaj Sekhsaria, a researcher-writer, activist, and photographer, brought out the fragility of the Andaman and Nicobar islands’ unique landscape.

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tectonic movements, which although not frequent, affect the islands on a large scale.

The fine silk prints moving gently in the breeze, heightened the sense of delicate fluidity and change that is at the heart of island ecosystems. Their size also gave viewers a sense of the dimensions and scale of an earthquake and a tsunami and their impact on human infrastr ucture and wildlife.

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THE EVOLUTION OF THE VOID

Manuel Scortichini, Giuseppe Bozzi, S Bhuvaneshwari

Curator: Jaya | Venue: Goa Science Center

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The Evolution of the Void was an interdisciplinary project on the different theories about the concept of Void. From western heritage to eastern culture, from contemporary science to avantgarde art explorations, the meaning of emptiness has evolved in an incredible and varied way. For this exhibit, architect Manuel Scortichini, 144

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philosopher S Bhuvaneshwari and theoretical particle physicist Giuseppe Bozzi have came together to build a narrative which gave a more comprehensive framework about the philosophical aspects of the void to audiences. By combining illustrations and games to create new way of learning, they invited visitors to interact with their exhibit.

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BREATH Ana Bloom

Curator: Lina | Venue: Adil Shah Palace, Alliance Française

Breath is the energy that keeps us alive, physically and spiritually.

But what happens when our breath is made to stop? How do we react when we lack oxygen and what does this reaction signify?

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environment of water, the subjects of Bloom’s por traits str uggle for life, floating as they can. BREATH questioned our relationship to the ocean and nature, and to migration through these spaces, to those beyond them. The ar tist believes that every human being has a strong relationship to death.

Her photo series was a reminder of our place in the universe between the rhythm of breath and the point at whic h it ceases.

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EXPLORING THE INDIAN AESTHETIC SPACE S. Bhuvaneshwari

Curator: Deshna | Venue: Sadhana Dell Arte | Workshop Audience: All

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Participants were invited to explore various Sanskrit theatrical concepts in relation to space in this workshop. By expressing emotions with their eyes and other body parts, they learned to create theatrical productions focusing on the idea of ‘aesthetic-space’. As they understood and appreciated the importance of space in Sanskrit dramas, the participants were also inspired to perform for audiences.

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FACING SPACE

Karin Van Der Molen, Sally Kidall

Curator: Shaira | Venue: Luis Gomes Garden

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Space is the field around us. Our space may be constricted by others or by ourselves. The unique ‘birdcage’ installations, designed and built by artists Karin and Sally, prompted viewers to contemplate this idea. They were made from locally sourced material, with openings in different places.

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HUMAN OCCUPIER Nadine Badlow

Curator: Shazeb | Venue: Near Luis Gomes Garden

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In her site-specific installation of biomorphic structures, “HUMAN OCCUPIER”, Nadine considered the relationship between humans and nature as being two parts which assume divergent positions, rather than existing as a unit. In the recent past, humans seem to be increasingly driven to occupy more and more space, while also optimizing their living spaces in a dominant way.

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of a far-reaching man-made infrastructure has led to there being hardly any place on earth that humans haven’t colonized.

This installation drew viewers into the space, urging them to ponder the questions: once we are extinct, what new life forms will occupy our spaces? What will happen to the planet after we are gone?

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BENDING THE TEA SHOP Hojun Song

Curator: Shazeb | Venue: Garcia De Orta

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Bending the Tea Shop was a stage where the lines between performers and the audience got blurred.

It experimented with a new performance setup that promoted failures rather than a prepared performance.

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I HOPE YOU FIND WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR Akash Halankar

Curator: Rahul | Venue: Panjim Municipal Market

The staggering rate of technological progress in the 21st century has improved our lives and made a large number of things possible. Such advancement has also contributed to the increasing isolation of humankind as people spend more time in “virtual” worlds or seeking validation from social media, and less time observing their environment or interacting with fellow humans. We are losing the art of nonverbal communication, with which we once easily understood social cues.

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On a mission to free our minds from the prison of these virtual spaces, artist and type enthusiast Akash Halankar used ‘anamorphic typography’ to hide several messages around Panjim.

These messages were selections of the Konkani proverbs (in both Devnagri and Roman scripts) compiled by Goan writer Jose Lourenço.

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MISSING WOMEN

Flora Barros, Helena Wolfenson, Veronica Deviรก

Curator: Lina | Venue: Sukerkar House

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Missing Women was a multimedia interactive installation and performance that reflected on gender roles, social stigma and how women relate to the space around us.

The project was an investigation of the questions: is space for everyone?

How are women occupying spaces?

How is space dictating the way women exist?

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ARCHITECTURAL BEINGS AND THE COORDINATOR (AR) René Fadinger, Elisabeth Winkle

Curator: Lina | Venue: Fundacao Oriente

Imagine empty space contained within an architectural structure.

Imagine that this space is intelligent, and has memory. Rene and Elizabeth’s video projection is an effort to emancipate space from the structure it is confined within by human imagination. Through metamorphosis, from gaseous to solid state, and from solid to gaseous, the structures are caught in a moment of crystallizing into solid form. The space then seeks a new abstract form to inhabit, one that allows it to explore higher dimensions of existence.

This installation can also be understood as a metaphor for human life—raising questions about our own journeys of emancipation and our inevitable return to nothingness.

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In this augmented reality installation, the artist wanted to point the three coordinates of 3-dimensional space, X/Y/Z, and expand the imagination of the recipient to multidimensionality. Each end of the AR forms ran to a single point and led to infinity. The mirroring surface of the forms showed fractals of the environment and converted the 2-dimensional single plates of the shape, into perceptible space “on the other side” of the surface. When circuiting the object, the coordinates grew and shrank as a cause of perspective (size matters!) and gave the viewer a feeling of interacting with the form.

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KINETIC SCULPTURE Gaurav Patekar

Curator: Rahul | Venue: Adil Shah Palace

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Gestalt psychologists believe that the human brain tends to perceive forms and figures as complete even if one or more of their parts are hidden or made totally absent. This is also known as the Law of Closure.

Designer and engineer Gaurav Patekar uses many small repetitive elements in his kinetic installation. Following the Law of Closure, these elements create and manipulate volume to generate different forms. Viewers were able to observe how the shape of the installation changed as they proceed through the space, how it responded to their presence and path of movement. 166

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TEACHING WITH MIME Ran Peleg

Curator: Jaya | Venue: Institute Menezes Braganza | Workshop Audience: Teachers

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What would your birthday celebration look like on the moon? In this interactive workshop, participants experienced the laws of physics firsthand by embodying different degrees of gravitational forces. The workshop began with a short mime theater piece about space 168

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travel. Participants then learned both mime and physics to decipher and better understand the natural laws that govern our world. In the workshop, the underlying pedagogical foundations were highlighted together with some practical tips for class.

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JUGGLING AND SCIENCE Claudia Sodini

Curator: Jaya | Venue: Institute Menezes Braganza | Workshop Audience: All

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Is there more juggling in science or more science in juggling? Is centripetal force a juggler’s friend or foe? Claudia takes participants through using circus art as an instrument for learning science and science as a tool for exploring practicing circus art. The workshop is both practical and theoretical, designed for beginners to face the challenges and complexity of juggling and to rethink their preconceptions of circus. Everyone learned the basic pattern of juggling using balls, sticks, tubes, and everyday objects for research—and for play! As Albert Einstein said, “Play is the highest form of research.”

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12 HOURS OF SOUND Various Artists

Curator: Shazeb | Venue: Sadhana Dell Arte

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This is an immersive twelve hour experience of sound that shapes the viewer-listener’s perception of space through multiple perspectives. Da Saz performed a marathon 7-hour exploration of live sampling and synthesis. Robin Meier produced live soundscapes with local mosquitoes harmonising with Matthias Durand’s voice along with improvisation on Muonionalusta, a musical instrument carved from a meteorite. Hemant Sreekumar premiered his new piece, Nature Morte, in his trademark live audio-visual noise embroidery. South Korean duo Gold&Silver consisting of Hojun Song on modular synthesizers and Sangback Choe on drums showcased a concept of anti-causal / pro coincidence performances with spontaneous and parallel individual explorations of a singular theme. Custom hardware and software by Sound.Codes were demonstrated live in a performance of aural drones. Pluggy, a music composer and Sepoy, a DJ concluded the event with experimental dance music.

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DON’T COMPRESS ME Hojun Song

Curator: Shazeb | Venue: Sadhana Dell Arte | Workshop Audience: Age 14+

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The aim of this workshop was to find movements that cannot be compressed easily by a video codec algorithm.

Humans are complex, multi-faceted individuals. The workshop process invited people to participate in a way that makes it difficult to summarize, and in this case, compress, their personalities.

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sudden, discontinuous, erratic movements and sounds. These were recorded by a camera linked to editing software that runs the video compression. Participants had to fight against their inhibitions, habits and logical patterns of thinking in order to create a video file of the largest size despite being compressed.

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CREATE A SIX-MONTH PINHOLE CAMERA Nick Sayers

Curator: Jaya | Venue: Sadhana Dell Arte | Workshop Audience: Age 10+

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This workshop gave people a different perception of the passage of time, seasons, and how this can be recorded with a long-exposure camera.

Participants were taught to make a sixmonth pinhole camera with commonly available recyclable materials.

Nick has been following up with the workshop participants.

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AEROMODELING AND WALK ALONG GLIDING T.R. Ananthnarayanan

Curator: Jaya | Venue: Campal Indoor Stadium | Workshop Audience: Age 13+

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Put simply, space is the distance between two defined points. On a larger scale, it is the distance between two locations on Earth. Since air travel first became possible, there has been an increase in our ability to travel vast distances in shorter and shorter periods of time. This has led to a drastic change in our perceptions of space and distance. For many, the world has now become ‘a global village’. The focus of this workshop is to understand

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aerodynamics, the study of which is instrumental to air travel and space travel. Making an object that can be easily flown is a fascinating experience for all ages. In this workshop, T.R. Ananthnarayanan introduced the basic principles of aerodynamics, followed by an introduction to aeromodeling and to techniques that enable flight without any motor or power source.

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INTERSTELLAR ICONOCLASTS Deepti Dutt

Curator: Rahul | Venue: Central Library

This is a VR installation about the ways five Indian women have traversed physical, literal and conceptual ‘space’, far beyond the final frontiers.

PO L I TI C S

KESARBAI KERKAR - The legendary classical vocalist from Goa, whose music found a place on the Golden Record aboard the Voyager space probe, currently travelling 12 billion miles away from Earth.

PERSIS KHAMBATTA - Miss India 1965, model and actress, Persis is known worldwide as the iconic Lieutenant Ilia in Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

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KALPANA CHAWLA - The first Indian woman to fly in space, Kalpana was a NASA astronaut who completed two space missions. She tragically died on her second mission in 2003.

DR. USHA ADEBARAN SAGAR - A fictional character created by Anjalika Sagar for the film-installations Otolith I & II. ASHA PUTHLI - An Indian classical singer whose song, “Space Talk” (1976) was transmitted into deep space from Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station, on the 40th anniversary of the moon landing in 2009.

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CLEAN LANGUAGE

Mathias Durand & Julia Stern

Curator: Jaya | Venue: 91 Springboard | Workshop Audience: All

P H ILO S O P HY

Through a discussion of different modes of listening, with a focus on techniques of ecological communication, Clean Language is an opportunity for participants to learn how to properly listen to ‘acousmatic music’—recordings of naturally occurring sound that are usually considered non-musical. Visitors learn how to develop and sharpen their perception with their emotions. In keeping with the theme proposed by Mathias and Julia of listening in general, listening to the other, and listening to oneself, participants create metaphors rooted in their emotional perception.

From here Mathias and Julia usd these metaphors to apply ‘clean language’ between participants, drawing upon each individual’s inner resources, insights, and understandings of the personal, poetic, or philosophical.

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DUET

Quicksand and Invisible Flock

Curator: Akshay | Venue: Sadhana dell Arte

PO L I TI C S

Duet is a collaboration between Invisible Flock (UK) and Quicksand (India), an ambitious digital artwork about finding space for reflection, expression and connection in our daily lives. An app, an interactive web platform and a series of large scale sculptures creating a year of connections between India and the UK, Duet is at once personal and public, global and local. Every day participants in India and the UK respond to one question via Duet App, gradually building a picture of their partner and their surroundings through shared messages. An interactive web platform – each anonymous conversation adds to the platform in real time, providing a beautiful portal into thousands of global conversations –like an evolving, animated network.

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ADRIFT

Chitra Chandrashekhar

Curator: Akshay | Venue: Garcia De Orta | Workshop Audience: 17+

Do you enjoy stories? Stories can transport us to fantastic places, send us on adventurous journeys, and make us meet unforgettable characters.

Adrift is a free-flowing visual allegory of personified ‘space’ that unravels spatially, temporally and graphically through the collective efforts of multiple storytellers. It is a story with a life of its own. Conceived as a social experiment, it fuses the art of doodling, drawing and graphic novels, it explores the interactive nature of storytelling.

PO L I TI C S

Through a workshop, Chitra Chandrashekhar introduced the idea

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and methods of using allegory in storytelling, graphic or otherwise, and involved participants as characters in the narrative, Adrift. Participants worked collaboratively towards one possible resolution of the narrative presented to them.

The boards were then taken to an open public space, where Chitra facilitated dialogues with the audience in real-time, using doodles, notes and maps. These responses were compiled into a graphic novella on another canvas, allowing the contributors to appreciate their shared sense of ownership and authorship.

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ARE WE ALONE?

Kalyani Tupkary, Rucha Joshi, Jazeela Basheer, Priyam Vadaliya, Neha Rao Curator: Akshay | Venue: Luis Gomes Garden

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‘Are We Alone’ is a three part audio-visual installation questioning the existence of intelligent life and extraterrestrial civilisations in outer space. In the first part, you’re in a dark room with an audio narrative transporting you into the recesses of the Universe, explaining Fermi’s Paradox and Drake’s Equation in a simple way to arrive at a frame for the question: Are We Alone? In the second part, you explore a series of questions that humans have asked concerning this topic? Finally, you give your opinion on if you are alone in a participatory infographic.

Before entering the installation, you’re prompted to pick a white sticker to indicate if you think we are alone, and a black one if you think we are not alone.

In the third part, you place your sticker.

Have your thoughts changed after going through the first two parts? This project was conceived by 5 new arts and design profressionals in consultation with scientist Dr. Henry Throop.

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SOUNDS OF THE SPECTRUM Jackie Bertone, Alex Gagliano

Curator: Deshna | Venue: Goa Science Center

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For thousands of years, we have used our eyes to study the cosmos, but what if we could use our ears?

Our senses are limited tools for understanding the universe, but in being attentive to patterns, we can learn about how things are connected. The story of space is a story of energy. The light that we perceive is electromagnetic energy. Every atom has a unique light signature, called an emission spectrum.

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elements of a star and converted them into an aural frequency.

Vibrating metal plates sprinkled with sand revealed these frequencies as visual patterns. By layering the audio and the patterns, the pair created new representations of water, humans, the Earth, and even the universe.

One could also go on a short ‘star walk’, where you could hear the different elements of a star, based on which ‘part’ of the star you were standing at.

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IN MY MIND

National Institute of Design - Exhibition Design Students (2014 Batch) Curator: Deshna | Venue: Central Library

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This installation allowed visitors to ‘enter’ the mind spaces of the neuro developmentally different.

It featured an informative audio narrative on how different sorts of stimuli affect the minds of individuals with ASD (autism spectrum disorder).

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of neurons in an autistic mind, when exposed to stimuli.

The installation was meant to raise awareness about neurodevelopmental disorders and create empathy among audiences of all ages, in order to encourage an attitude of inclusiveness and acceptance towards people with ASD.

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SPACINGS Angela Chong

Curator: Deshna | Venue: Site Specific

How can space be related to our emotions and memories? Who and what determines the functions and meanings of different spaces?

P E RC E PT I O N

Student participants selected specific sites for the ‘spacings’:enclosures to be located. Facilitated workshops revealed observations made by students about their concerns regarding the public spaces around them. These were discussed at different levels: environmental, social responsibility, ownership, boundaries, to name a few; and posted inside the enclosures for audiences to reflect and contemplate on. This project aimed at building an environment conducive to the growth of a curious, questioning community.

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NEIGHBOURING FRONTIERS Ana Bloom

Curator: Lina | Venue: Garcia De Orta | Workshop Audience: All

P E RC E PT I O N

Neighbouring Frontiers was an exhibit of photographs made by the participants of Ana Bloom’s workshop of the same name.

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wor kshop was a space where par ticipants could experience a sense of peace and hope. Ana has conducted this wor kshop in a diverse range of geographic, sociocultural places. This was her first Neighbouring Frontiers wor kshop in India.

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BODY MOVEMENT & SPACE Flora Barros

Curator: Lina | Venue: Sadhana Dell Arte | Workshop Audience: All

P O LI T IC S

This was a dance workshop which worked around the use of the body relating to the space that surrounds it. Flora used the principles of Rudolf Laban, an architect and a pioneer of contemporary dance, who developed a technique to think movement throughout space. The movement generated by participants in the workshop came not

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only from the inner emotions or from a specific dance technique (like ballet) but from their relation to their kinesphere. As an example: a specific part of the body will move in a circular way to reach a very specific point in a diagonal right related to the body. Or the body will move drawing a line in the floor, or a circle in the air and so on.

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CULTURAL SPACES AND FIELD RECORDINGS Leonie Roessler

Curator: Jaya | Venue: Sukerkar House, Multiple Venues Across Panjim | Workshop Audience: All

P H ILO S O P HY

The workshop consisted of two sessions.

The first session gave participants an introduction to sound recording techniques in various types of spaces and environments. During this session, participants were led in a discussion about which sort of equipment to use/ buy for various recording situations/ budgets/needs. In the next part, participants were guided in live recording exercises. They could start with a generic app on their phone, or with a handheld recorder/microphone if available. Participants also got to use Leonie’s professional equipment to record something. They got to keep the files of the recordings they made.

Participants were sent out to collect specific types of audio material, to explore different types of spaces and the effect these spaces have on sound.

They were encouraged to think on

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questions like - why does the same space sound different when “heard through the ears of another” or is there truly such a thing as an ugly sound?

Which sounds define our physical and cultural living spaces and how do these change over time?

In the second session, Leonie guided the participants in processing the recordings and compiling them into comprehensive pieces. They downloaded free audio software and learned how to cut and process the sound, which material to choose, and how to create a simple sound collage or a composition. All students exchanged their favourite sounds recorded during the workshop and made a small piece (up to one minute) with these sounds. The workshop concluded with everyone listening to the results accompanied by a final discussion.

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SPACE THROUGH TIME Tanya Mehta

Curator: Lina | Venue: Central Library

P E RC E PT I O N

Throughout human history, space has always been the great unknown. Our ancestors viewed the sky as a place filled with mysteries, with gods and omens while contemporary science is still investigating the question, what is space? Space through Time is an illustration art exhibit that examines our perception of space in the context of a brief history of human life and our position in the universe, in physical and philosophical terms.

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POETRY WORKSHOP The Poetry Club (Mumbai)

Curator: Deshna | Venue: 91 Springboard | Workshop Audience: All

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P HYSICS

POLI TICS

PERC EPTI ON

In this workshop, participants explore the concept of “space” in poetry through structure, forms and imagery. They also learn important tools for writing poetry, while exploring influential poetic forms and styles through classic and contemporary examples.

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POETRY PERFORMANCE

The Poetry Club - Ankita, Siddharth, Lavina, Ramneek

Curator: Deshna | Venue: Menezes Braganza Auditorium

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P HYSICS

POLI TICS

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Four members of The Poetry Club, Mumbai, went around several locations in Goa presenting a series of readings on philosophy, science and society.

Siddharth Warrier, Lavina Pereira, Ramneek Singh and Ankita Shah shared their poems on cities, inner and outer conflicts, the politics of space, the physics between people, and more.

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PASSIVE DISSENT Devanshi Shah

Curator: Akshay | Venue: Garcia De Orta | Workshop Audience: All

P O LI T IC S

This workshop was inspired by the current global protest movements (Women’s March, Airport demonstrations), which see very creative ways of self-expression.

Devanshi considers them love letters to disappointments. The way to facilitate change is to create awareness of the consequences of not acting and the effects of keeping quiet. This was one of the central themes of the workshop. Note: This was not a protest. It was just a presentation and crafts workshop.

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SPACE AVAILABLE Thomas Heidtmann

Curator: Rahul | Venue: 91 Springboard | Workshop Audience: All

There is plenty of space waiting for us to occupy it – Outer Space, Virtual Space, and Physical Space. What are the limitations? What are the possibilities that lie in the artistic exploration of these domains? How does art help us overcome the physical limitations of space? And how can technology help in pushing the boundary further?

P HY S I C S

During this workshop, participants learned how to use the open-source 3D application

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Blender, and Unity 3D to create their own worlds at the intersections of these realms.

To achieve this, they used 3D models from the NASA catalogue, and textures and footage from free online repositories to build interactive experiences. First, they learnd basic 3D modeling and texturing techniques that helped them to create and modify objects. After this, they brought the objects that they made to (virtual) life using a game engine.

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CREATING A SPACE FOR LEARNING Madhulika S.

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PERC EPTI ON

Curator: Jaya | Venue: Institute Menezes Braganza | Workshop Audience: Teachers

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In this workshop, Madhulika guided educators on how to create a space conducive to learning. She considers that immense learning happens when we are looking in no one particular direction or one discipline or subject area. The willingness to surrender to learning in various dimensions creates the space for transformation. She encourages teachers and facilitators to work on themselves to 214

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allow for such deeper knowing to emerge in multidimensional interactions. It is when a teacher or facilitator creates space through unconditioning their teaching and learning habits, the learner can grow and develop in emotional, psychological realms with an outcome for social transformation. She supports multidimensional experiences in science and art and design.

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SHIFTING

Pavithra Dikshit

Curator: Deshna | Venue: Garcia De Orta

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Shifting was a spoken-word and type-art performance based on the subconscious mental shifts that people undergo in a modern Indian setting. Pavithra opens her audience’s minds to the idea that being ‘modern’ does not mean they are free of gender bias. In many small ways, gender shapes all that we do and that is a part and parcel of the many subconscious mental shifts that occur within people.

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SPEAKER’S CORNER Devanshi Shah

Curator: Akshay | Venue: Garcia De Orta

P O LI T IC S

Speaker’s Corner is a pop-up space for local expression. On two evenings over the course of the festival, Devanshi facilitated discussions among locals on pertinent issues and matters. Her style of moderation aims at building constructive dialogue in a way that lost words and phrases of local language are reclaimed.

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SELF SPACE: EMBODIED BLANK SPACE Pushpanjali Sharma & Gautam Nima

Curator: Lina | Venue: 91 Springboard | Workshop Audience: All

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This workshop was an opportunity for participants to explore the Self, moving between what is known to them about themselves and what is yet unknown. This was enabled through the use of bodyawareness, self-aware movement and dance. It is a scientific fact that we are 99.99% empty space and the body is essentially made up of wavelike motions.

Hence, we are essentially movement.

Yet we see ourselves as solid, with solid identities. Over years, we come to develop a very fixed sense of the

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‘I’ with its physical identity, emotional identity, social identity, creative identity and universal identity. When we recognize the emptiness within ourselves, we recognize the space as well. We introduce the Self to new ways of existing and seeing by discovering new ways of moving.

During the workshop, Pushpanjali and Gautam taught a combination of tools and techniques that they have been using in their dance practice to increase internal awareness.

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SPACE IN RELATIONSHIPS Rachna Patni Pereira

Curator: Jaya | Venue: Sadhana Dell Arte | Workshop Audience: Age 30+

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“You need your own space.” “Give him space.” “Take some space for yourself.”

There are so many oft-used phrases about space in relationships that it seems silly to take it seriously, to put such advice into practice. Rachana, a psychologist, revisits these and other such phrases to reconsider how we approach the space of responding to our partner with responsibility rather than resorting to our reactionary impulses. In this 3-day workshop, participants had the opportunity to work on their connection with themselves and with the meaningful relationships in their life. They search for ways in which they can re-inhabit spaces of togetherness and realize what their deeper needs are in these spaces.

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ART, ETHICS AND SPACE Sundar Sarukkai

Curator: Rahul | Venue: 91 Springboard | Workshop Audience: All

P H ILO S O P HY

This workshop dealt with some central conceptions of space but with a specific focus on art and aesthetics. Spaces are created in complex ways in the practice of art. Art is also essential to the very formation of social spaces. Through the workshop, Sundar guided participants to explore the ethical themes that bring space, art and aesthetics together. The workshop can be seen as a larger space where participants could collectively think about space and its relation to art and ethics.

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Films

Inner Spaces (Children) These films show how what is inside you shapes what is outside

La Folie Ricard Lรณpez Spain The madness and absurdity of war will lead the great painter Pablo Picasso to create one of the most significant and important artworks of the twentieth century. But the process by which he arrives at the final idea is not easy.

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Blackboard Hyash Tanmoy India An illiterate fourteen-year-old boy becomes an educator of a slum.

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Lima Afshin Roshanbakht Iran As he struggles to keep the memory of the father he lost, a boy becomes a man and grows old.

2015

The Most Amazing Jordi Funtanet USA When a boy on a wheelchair is rejected from space camp, a retired filmmaker will show him that imagination is more powerful than a pair of legs.

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Cornice Donjeta Hyseni Kosovo Flora, a sixty-seven-year-old woman, lives alone because her husband has died. Her grandson, nine-year-old Toni, comes and visits her, and does his best to console her and cheer her up.

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Outer Spaces (Children) The children in these films bravely look into new spaces

The Astronaut Mahalia John UK Gus, a young astronaut seeking love and compassion, attempts to escape his world.

2016

The Age of Reason Descalles Nicolas France In Pablo’s world, each citizen chooses his career at the age of seven – with disastrous consequences for society. Pablo and his friends decide to take matters into their own hands.

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Event Horizon Anaïs Bertrand UK Julianne refuses to grow up too quickly, because she knows that childhood doesn’t last long but being an adult lasts forever. When her fear of the unknown manifests itself in the shape of a mysterious cosmic object, she must overcome her old self and embrace what lies ahead.

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Maybe Aliens Karl Glenn Barit Philippines As two brothers try to cope with loss and separation, they look to the sky for answers. Could there be aliens?

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Inner Spaces I (18+) The films in this session delve into the workings of our mind, addressing questions of psychology, love, and the search for happiness

How Art You Kimberly Berckmoes Belgium When language fails, emotions can be expressed through colour, choreography and dance, and body language.

Based on several thousand pen-andpaper drawings, this animation film conveys emotions through such forms of visual communication.

2016

The Vast Landscape Lea Vidakovic Croatia A fox hunter and a porcelain shopkeeper lady, the scientist brothers, a seal, a boy and a music box. Six characters in their rooms filled with traces of longing, separated by a vast and bleak landscape. Four stories on love, contemplation and (self-)destruction.

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The Astronaut Phoebe Arnstein UK A daughter visits her father, who lies in a hospital bed, suspended somewhere between life and death. She arrives determined to rouse him from sleep, but learns that she may best leave his mind to float freely in space.

2016

The Sad Monk Diana Frankovic Germany A young Tibetan buddhist monk travels to the monasteries of Nepal to participate in the holistic upbringing and rhythm of life there. But happiness turns out not always to be what we expect. Isn’t there a Sad Monk in all of us?

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Seymour Ronlee Nemeth Israel Seymour’s life has slid into a rut, until he makes the acquaintance of a bat, who tries to help him by turning him into a bat as well. But Seymour doesn’t want to be a bat forever. Loosely based on Thomas Nagel’s essay, ‘What Is It Like to Be a Bat?’ 2015

04:48 Laura Benavides Colombia This film, based on Sarah Kane’s play 4:48 Psychosis, recreates sensations of psychosis through black and white drawings. The drawings show the physical and mental impairment of a body and its relation to space.

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20 Kicks Dimitar Dimitrov Bulgaria ‘I asked my teeth if they’ll withstand a drink’.

Imagining a world in which the exchange system is slaps and fists, this film raises questions about the price we pay for small pleasures and the sacrifices we make to attain true happiness.

2016

Memory Reconstructed Anne Murray USA A chance encounter with a whalebone leads the artist to photographically retrace the beached whale’s path as it was transported inland.

Through this, she explores the process by which memory is constructed.

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Inner Spaces II (18+) These films use poetry and performance as guides to the maps of our minds

On Earth Ya’Ir Gabriel Magall Israel A young man parks his car on the roadside. He walks into the desert and finds a place that is so quiet that he can feel himself again. His soul is dancing and the protagonist embarks on a poetic journey to himself.

2016

Memories of You Bart Schrijver The Netherlands An old man has built five theatre stages in a large warehouse. Now he looks at the re-enactment of the most beautiful memories of his life, so he can feel like he did when his wife was still alive.

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The Night of All Things ValĂŠrie Delpierre Spain Joana, a seven-year-old girl, lives in a house close to a little village in CataluĂąa, where her grandfather runs an antiques business. Joana sees the objects in the warehouse as vestiges of past lives, buried by time and oblivion, and she realises that her ill mother will soon become a memory too.

2016

They Are There But I Am Not Ye Mimi Taiwan We experience many poems as a record of real life. Against a Taiwanese backdrop, the poetry of this film illustrates a series of moments in order to approach the concept of time, which is not as concrete as we are taught.

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Face It Aditya Pawar India Every day we wake from our dream and slowly come into consciousness by recollecting our yesterday, our past and what we are going to do today. As we look into the mirror, we convince ourselves that the illusion of ‘I’ is real, then take it out into the world and perform our part on this stage called life.

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Geopolitical Spaces (18+) Boundaries divide the space we inhabit. These films highlight how mental and political borders intersect

A Place Ivรกn Fernรกndez de Cรณrdoba Spain An Arab refugee has to overcome the prejudices of a European family in order to repair his car and get to his destination.

2016

The Royal Darren Teale UK In 1975 the Khmer Rouge began the systematic murder of over two million Cambodian people.

This film looks at how arts and culture were destroyed, how the genocide stills affects the people of Cambodia, and how a couple who lived through it came to live in the Royal Cinema in Kampot.

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Exile Piotr and Agata Bartos Poland Egzul works to eat and eats to work.

And when he doesn’t eat and work, he looks at the moon.

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Mohajer (camp-e-forsat) Anna Knappe Finland Mohajer, a Persian loan word from Arabic, means anyone or anything traveling from one place to another. This film is about the experiences and discrimination faced by Afghan mohajers in Iran and how these define their identity as mohajers later in their life after emigrating to Europe.

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Exit / Entrance Federica Foglia Italy Exit/Entrance is a visual and poetic essay on what it is like to be displaced as a person. The protagonist is a painter who wanders the town in which he lives to sketch and paint. His eyes absorb the world around him while his inner thoughts are expressed through a voice-over that captures both his alienation and desire to belong.

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Gender Spaces (18+) Drawing on a global range of perspectives, these films examine the world through the lens of gender

Maria Afro De Falco Italy Anna is an elementary school teacher who has never never had children, but watching her pupils grow is her reason to live. Her lover, Antonio, works at an astronomical observatory, and observing the universe is his reason to live. A supernova and a pregnancy burst into their lives.

2016

The Dusk Suruchi Sharma India This film tells the story of a 55-year old lady, whom luck seldom favours. Nevertheless, she continues to dream of personal and financial independence and has not given up on her battered desire to become a teacher.

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Heart Sisters Anton and Kajsa Textur Sweden This film aims to map patriarchal oppression, but also to create a collective narrative about how it can be to live as women in a male-dominated world. Feminists in Africa, Europe and the Middle East participate and show how they share many thoughts, feelings and memories.

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Space Exploration (18+) Venturing into the vast space surrounding Earth, this session explores the relationship between human and cosmos

Novae Thomas Vanz France Using only an aquarium, ink and water, Novae represents the dramatic and catastrophic end of a massive star’s life: a supernova. A tribute to the filmography of Kubric and Nolan, the film is a cosmic poem that introduces the viewer to the nebulae’s infinite beauty.

2016

Out of Reach Alexandra Allen Portugal An astronaut’s spaceship runs out of fuel and has to make an emergency landing.

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Leonids Michael Hudson Australia On the eve of an epic meteor shower, a budding astronomer, Leon, and his single father are forced to confront their feelings about Leon’s late grandfather, and about their own relationship.

2015

Earth 2084 Nuno SĂĄ Pessoa Portugal After the collapse, the world is blighted by a currency crisis while the newly established World Union exerts ever tighter social control. Can something save society before it is too late - and can we let it be saved?

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A Silent Scream Christian Skibinski Germany A man wakes up in a white room unable to move and deprived of his memory.

Little by little, in order to escape the room, he pieces the mystery together.

2016

I Look at Diamonds for a Living Jessica Hutchison Australia On the busy streets of Melbourne, an astronomer striving to enlighten people with the wonders of the universe is met with fascination, astonishment and skepticism from passers-by. Meanwhile, things on Earth begin to rapidly deteriorate.

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Off LukĂĄĹĄ Gregor Czech Republic On an unknown planet, an astronaut appears in a beam of light from the skies. Abandoned, he tries to find his bearings.

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Science Fiction (18+) What if... the future is tomorrow? This session imagines what might be next

Ferruccio Stefano De Felici Italy Duccio is an inventor by vocation, and in his home workshop he takes on an exceptional challenge.

Thanks to his determination and a bit of magic, a short-circuit will create Ferruccio, a robot created by assembling recycled contraptions.

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Bruce Gallagan Pau Perramon Spain The galactic spy is on a mission with his sidekick Lena Wildborn. They will face all kinds of dangers, including themselves.

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Last Day on Earth SangJin Ko USA A man who was buried in a goldmine ninety years ago comes back home to spend his last day on Earth. He struggles to accomplish his final mission, stopping a professor who tries to prove the Higgs boson particle, and eventually reveals the mystery stone.

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The App Thomas Grascoeur France What if apps became real people and actually lived in our homes? When thirty-year-old Faustine comes back home to prepare herself before meeting her date, she finds herself face to face with a stranger who has made himself at home in her apartment.

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Dean D’Cruz India

Dean D’Cruz graduated from Sir J.J. College of Architecture, Bombay, in 1983, and joined architect Gerard Da Cunha as an assistant in Goa in 1985.

Enamoured by the soft and human scale of Goa’s Architecture and lifestyle he decided to stay. In 1986 he became a partner in a firm called Natural Architecture, working on cost effective housing in a very Laurie Baker approach using waste building materials and innovative design. In 1994 he expanded base of design work, taking on small hotels, large houses and institutional work as principal architect of Dean D’Cruz & Associates. In 2001 he co-founded Mozaic, with general collaboration between disciplines as the core ethic. Having been part of the State Level Committee for the making of the Regional Plan 2021 for Goa, his current emphasis is on urban interventions, sustainable principles and conservation.

Public And Private Spaces The talk will revolve around the need to recognise the graded relationship between public and private spaces, varying in scales from a house, to communities and large scale settlements. Without understanding these intricacies architecture and planning do not function well and in fact can create conflict . The solution does not lie in creating water tight compartments of public and private, but recognise the possibilities of proper flowing of one into the other and the potential of flexibility in time and space.

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Sourcing Sustainable Seafood From The Global Fish Market Seafood production has come at a huge environmental and social cost. Since the advent of fisheries industrialization, which in Asia took off in the 1950’s has led to the ubiquitous and drastic depletion of fish stocks. Industrial fisheries besides being highly wasteful and damaging to the environment also led to the removal of large quantities of fish deemed ‘unsuitable for human consumption’ to be ground to fishmeal instead to feed farmed pigs, chickens and fish. To sustain this and our increasing appetites for fish, fleets that could once produce a healthy supply of seafood from coastal waters are now forced to venture further ashore in the global oceans to stay profitable, as our fish stocks continue to decline. The new ocean spaces that we have now begun to plunder include the relatively unexploited twilight zone (depths ranging between 200m to 1km) and moving back to land based forms of intensive aquaculture. Through his own experience both research and personal, while on his foraging forays around the globe he will share some rules for consuming seafood in the global market that he made for himself in the process.

Aaron Savio Lobo UK

Aaron Savio Lobo is a marine conservation biologist and has worked in South Asia and West Africa. He completed his PhD from the University of Cambridge on the Gates scholarship. Ironically, his passion for the sea was driven by his love for seafood. This led to his long-standing interest in finding ways to reconcile marine conservation with fisheries production through policy and practice. His work has involved designing, supporting and implementing projects including understanding the impacts of semi-industrial fisheries, marine protected areas and setting up fisheries monitoring programmes.

He currently works with the Indo-German Biodiversity Programme of the GIZ (German Development Cooperation).

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Space in Indian Philosophy

Indian Philosophical understanding of space (ākāśa) and its properties shall be explicated by introducing the idea of space as a substance (dravya) by the material-cosmological schools such as Nyāya, Vaiśeṣika and Pūrva Mīmāṃsā followed by the idea of elementalspace (bhūta-ākāśa) of consciousness-cosmological schools such as Advaita, Viśiṣṭādvaita and Dvaita Vedānta including the concept of unmanifested-space (avyākṛta-ākāśa). The idea of no-elemental-space according to the pure materialist Cārvāka and whether the Buddhist concept of nothingness (śūnyatā) represents space as absence of matter shall be discussed. The metaphysical-space shall be briefly discussed based on the esoteric statements of the Upaniṣads revealed through the word “ākāśa”. The listeners shall be exposed to the basic philosophical ideas of Indian thinkers that are at once synthetic, divergent, parallel, opposite and convergent. The listeners shall be left to ponder upon the empirical understanding of space (ākāśa), direction (dik), the idea of dream-space (svapna-avasthā) and the experience of no-space in sleep (suṣupti-avasthā).

S. Bhuvaneshwari India

S Bhuvaneshwari’s area of interest and study is Indian Philosophy from Sanskrit sources. Her PhD at the University of Madras (2010) is a focused study on pedagogy as seen in the tradition of Advaita Vedanta.

She is presently a post-doc IIT-Madras in Chennai, where she is working on the Principles of Mimamsa in Advaita Vedanta. She has been teaching Indian Philosophy & Aesthetics since 1997. She has published 20 articles and two books on Indian Philosophy. Between 1991 and 1995, she performed as a Bharatanatyam dancer. During this time time, she has also worked with Contemporary Choreographer Chandralekha and performed in four of her major productions.

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Nirmal Ulhas Kulkarni India

Nirmal Ulhas Kulkarni is a widely acclaimed affable eco-warrior, a passionate herpetologist with an unquantifiable eagerness to push boundaries in his line of calling. He began as a snake handler and a nature photographer several decades ago, and has since matured into a herpetologist, sustainable eco conscious tourism entrepreneur and conservation youth icon. His CV lists his various other roles: Explorer, Field ecologist, conservationist, author, nature photographer, Director (Ecology) of Wildernest Nature Resort, Chairman of the Mahdei Research Centre, Team Lead of Hypnale Research Station, Expert Member, Goa State Biodiversity Board, Research Collaborator at Madras Crocodile Trust and promoter of HERPACTIVE, a study initiative on Herpetofauna. Nirmal kick-started ‘Living with Pythons’ as a nationwide initiative in 2017 to create awareness and instill appreciation about India’s three Python species through conservation outreach, community engagement and field based herpetology research and techniques.

Living With Pythons ‘Living with Pythons’ is a nationwide initiative started in 2017 by herpetologist and researcher Nirmal Kulkarni to create awareness and instil appreciation about India’s three Python species: the Indian Rock Python (Python molurus), Burmese Python (Python bivittatus) and Reticulated python (Malayopython reticulatus). Together, these snakes represent some of the largest snake species of the world. This project aims to promote acceptance, awareness and understanding about these python species through conservation outreach and field-based herpetology techniques. It will also contribute to creating awareness on the issue of human- snake conflicts that are key to python survival in human dominated rural and urban landscapes. Beside which, the initiative proposes to address a need for a common protocol for Python rescue and release, as it will help minimize and address issues relating to reptilehuman conflict and provide vital answers to this growing challenge, especially in urban India.

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Eefje Hubers Netherlands

Eefje Hubers is an educator, coach and kids yoga teacher with a passion and curiosity for the development of humans, especially children. In her free time Eefje likes to explore her inner self and the outdoors in all kinds of ways. She has been a primary school teacher for the past 18 years in a Jenaplan school in The Netherlands. She holds a bachelor degree in primary teaching and remedial teaching and has studied pedagogy at the university of Utrecht. During her career she has been concentrating on the social emotional development of children and therefore completed a study in coaching and counseling children. This has had a major impact on her work as a teacher and as a human.

Jenaplan Schools In her talk Eefje will explain the major pillars of the Jenaplan philosophy, which are build around relationships. The relationship of the child with oneself, the relationship of the child with others and the relationship of the child with the world. She will give practical examples of how to teach in a holistic student centered fashion.

Eefjes teaching is value driven and she looks at the entirety of each child. The values in her teaching are: embrace diversity and it’s power, positivism, discovering and sincerely connecting through play, giving the children space to bloom with a continues fine-tuning mechanism where the social emotional wellbeing of the children are key.

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Exploring The Deep: Ocean Vs Space In this interactive Skype session, Russell combines his two passions – oceans and outer space, as he explores why over 500 people have been to space but only three have been to the bottom of the ocean. What limits did we have to overcome to send people into these environments? What are conditions like at the bottom of the deepest ocean? What is it like to live in space? This presentation investigates these questions and more, as we discover that it’s harder to go underwater than you might think.

Russell Arnot UK

Russell Arnot completed a combined Masters in Oceanography at the University of Southampton and worked as a physical oceanographer and sediment dynamicist for a number of years. He then went to complete a PGCE in Secondary Science (Physics) at University of Sussex before working as Head of Physics at a secondary sixth-form in London. With a passion for public engagement, Russell left teaching to pursue a career in schools’ outreach acting as Education Consultant and Presenter for WhaleFest: Incredible Oceans. Russell frequently performs at science communications events across the UK, organizing workshops and talks for all ages. Russell joined the University of Bath in September 2016 to study phytoplankton morphology and its influence on turbulent interactions. He has also had a career as a punk rock guitarist.

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Cosmic Perspectives In A Global Society Our current age of globalization has made it possible for international collaborations to thrive, and nowhere is this more evident than in astronomy. Growing networks such as the VLBA and the AVN have led to the construction of science centers in traditionally underserved communities, and low levels of light pollution in these areas provide favorable conditions for optical telescopes as well. For these reasons, astronomy provides an opportunity for economic development around the world. South Africa is a perfect example of this, as will be explored in more depth in this talk. Almost paradoxically, astronomy can be used to preserve regional culture as much as it can be used to promote global connectivity. As the oldest scientific discipline, nearly all societies are rooted in a rich history of astronomical heritage. Astronomical heritage within Gabon, United States, and China will be discussed as case studies. If we are to use astronomy to relate the past to the future, it is crucial that we make it accessible for every member of a society. We conclude by exploring efforts to bring the stars to the visually impaired, including a sonification-based astronomy exhibit called Sounds of the Spectrum that will be featured at the Story Of Space.

Alex Gagliano US

Alex Gagliano is an astrophysicist working at Los Alamos National Labs on cosmology simulations and supernovae. He is interested in the intersection between astronomy and culture, specifically how society influences the way an individual sees and interprets the sky. Last year, he traveled to Gabon to study traditional West African astronomical beliefs. He presented the works this past November at a TEDx event in the US. Alex also completed an internship at the Office of Astronomy for Development in Cape Town, South Africa, where he interacted with a blind astronomer who inspired him to explore sound-based astronomy outreach practices.

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Hojun Song Korea

Hojun Song is an artist who prefers to discover niches of technology and to mix them together. By detecting these niches he uses them as means of social commentary or as objects to express aesthetics. He likes to use microprocessors, sensors, PCB, and aluminium as textures and paints. His work has been exhibited internationally, and has been featured by reputed publications like BBC, The Telegraph, Reuter, Radio Nederland Worldwide, Deutschland Radio, New Scientist Magazine, Wired (UK/US) Magazine, Vogue Korea, Dazed & Confused Korea, etc. Hojun Song’s work is about creating narratives and drawing out questions around absurd the objects he makes, like radiation jewelry and ‘the strongest weapon in the world’. Recently, he launched his own small satellite, via the Open Source Satellite Initiative. Through his work, he likes to question some of the conventional thoughts on art, design and science.

How To Think Anti Causal ?

The session began with a film following Hojun’s journey of launching the first personal satellite in space. After the screening, the artist spoke about a new approach to his work, life and philosophy - anti-causality. In his talk, he explores why anti-causal ways of thinking matter in the era of AI. How do we practice these ways of thinking? And can we possibly make a living out of these uncertain attitudes?

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Pankaj Sekhsaria India

Pankaj Sekhsaria is a researcher, activist, writer, photographer and an academician. He has worked for nearly 20 years with the environmental group Kalpavriksh mainly on matters related to the Andaman & Nicobar Islands, where he is also the editor of a newsletter on wildlife. He has written extensively on issues pertaining to wildlife and tribal rights (particularly in the Andaman & Nicobar Islands) for the Indian press. His debut novel, ‘The Last Wave’ set in the Andaman Islands, was published in 2014. In 2016, he put together his first photo-exhibition on the islands.

The exhibition is a consolidation of 20 years of pictures taken there, and in a sense, runs parallel to his novel. His doctoral thesis is a sociological study of research and innovation inside nano-science and nanotechnology labs in India. He currently serves the role of senior project scientist at the DST Centre for Policy Research at the Department of Humanities and Social Science, IIT-Delhi.

Islands In Flux Islands in Flux : Why are the Andaman and Nicobar Islands always in flux? What is the nature of this flux? What do we need to understand about this? Why is it important? An illustrated talk by Pankaj Sekhsaria will seek to answer these and related questions as he takes the viewer along on a visual journey into the geology, ecology and history of the spectacularly beautiful and fragile Andaman and Nicobar Islands

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Nasa’s New Horizons Mission To Pluto And Beyond After a nine-year journey though space, astronomers visited Pluto for the first time in July 2015, using a robotic NASA spacecraft called New Horizons.

Despite being a tiny, icy body far from the sun’s warmth, New Horizons found Pluto’s surface to be astonishingly young and active, showing a diverse variety of geology never before seen in the solar system. Planetary Scientist Dr. Henry Throop will tell the story of this NASA spacecraft mission, from its development and construction, through launch in 2006, to its successful encounter with Pluto, and plans for onward encounters with bodies in the distant Kuiper Belt.

Dr. Henry Throop India

Henry Throop is a Senior Scientist with the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona. He received a PhD in Planetary Science from the University of Colorado, USA, in 2000. He is involved with the New Horizon’s mission to Pluto, working with the visible-IR spectrometer team. Dr. Throop has been a member of the science team for NASA’s New Horizons mission since 2003, and was involved in its historic flyby of Pluto in 2015. He has written award-winning software for operations planning.

He has also been involved with the Cassini mission’s imaging team in the data acquisition and analysis of ring studies. He is a frequent consultant to the US’s NASA and the National Science Foundation. While living in Africa, he worked extensively with rural schools, helping to develop their science programs. Dr. Throop’s work has been featured in Science, Nature, Time, The Washington Post, on the History Channel, and National Geographic TV.

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How Our Brain Perceives Space

The perception of space in the human brain is the culmination of many processes that occur within microseconds of each other, each of them contributing in a unique manner, to the big picture. As a neurologist, it is fascinating to study how the brain analyses and interprets three – dimensional space; but what makes it even more interesting is that the same processes also play a role in our awareness of non – physical space. Whether one is listening to a song, or dancing to a rhythm, our brain ‘sees’ the music using the same pathways it uses to see a physical sculpture. When one is listening to poetry, the rhythm of the words are analyzed by the same parts of the brain that help you paint a canvas.

Perhaps, in a fundamental way, all art can be seen as connected.

Siddharth Warrier India

Siddharth Warrier is a Mumbai-based poet and doctor, who is interested in the possibilities of neurology as a basis for explaining human behavior, and thereby, its consequences. His poems explore the interplay of human emotions and scientific phenomena. He has performed at various literature festivals and cultural events across the country, such as the Kala ghoda festival in Mumbai, and Lucknow literature festival. Currently, he works in the department of Neurology at the Sanjay Gandhi institute of medical sciences, Lucknow. He holds an MD Medicine degree from Seth GS and KEM hospital, Mumbai.

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Prafullata Rajput India

Prafulatta Rajput is a dancer and has pursued learning Bharatnatyam for over a decade. Her passion is to depict new stories and to explore the fusion of modern stories with this ancient art form of storytelling and expression. She is also an Ayurvedic doctor with a medical qualification from the Maharashtra University of Health Sciences and also a member of Central Council of Indian Medicine. She is a yoga teacher too. In 2015, she got professionally connected with CleanCube, a Canadian Government sponsored research grant to create a sustainable social enterprise for marginalized women in India who would be manufacturing a very unique plant based water filtration medium from their own homes. Bharatnatyam, Ayurveda and Yoga are the principle areas of interest in her life.

Yukti, Tarqa, Galpa I would start with an introduction to Indian Darshan Shastras (knowledge bases of Indian philosophy) and Tarkasangraha (a compendium explaining the logic & reasoning in ancient Indian texts). Then I will talk about Tantrayuktis (methods for understanding and reasoning) and their definition with examples from daily life. I would like to explore how these methods could be used today to broaden the extent of understanding the ancient texts and also find alternative ways of applying logic in research. I would like to leave the audience with a new language of decoding old treatises which are otherwise considered diabolical and hidden. This same language can be used for reasoning & understanding of concepts today. This talk would provide an opportunity to explore the methods utilised by the ancient authors in researching and propounding their subjects. For the ancient civilisation to thrive they had used a combination of science, technology, philosophy & deduction. This can be reclaimed & reused to create new spaces of reasoning & logic in our minds.

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Sundar Sarukkai India

Sundar Sarukkai is currently a Professor of philosophy at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore.

He is the author of the following books: Translating the World: Science and Language, Philosophy of Symmetry, Indian Philosophy and Philosophy of Science, What is Science? and The Cracked Mirror: An Indian Debate on Experience and Theory (co-authored with Gopal Guru). He is an Editorial Advisory Board member of the Leonardo Book Series on science and art, published by MIT Press, the Series Editor for Science and Technology Studies, Routledge and the Chief Editor of the Springer Handbook of Logical Thought in India. He actively conducts outreach programs in philosophy for nonspecialist audience as well propagate philosophy in the public through his newspaper columns.

Philosophies of Space Space is a complex idea: it is obvious but at the same time ephemeral. It seems to be present all around us but is perhaps nowhere really present. It seems necessary for creating an idea of object but objects themselves seem to be made dominantly of space ‘inside’ them. It has spawned some of the most essential concepts in human cognition but the ambiguity about its nature continue to make the reflection on space a fascinating journey. This talk will explore some of the philosophical themes around space as described in different disciplines, including natural and social science.

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Psychology Of Waste - Mudita, Tia and Richard

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Difficult Dialogues: Gender Space - Pavithra Dikshit, Deepti Datt, Niketa Malhotra, and Helena Wolfenson

Exploring The Canvas Of Unmanned Aerial Systems - Ankit Mehta and Team Indus

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Evaluation

1.THE GOAL 1.1// Two fold goal to affect and evaluate festival outcome At the very initial stages of planning The Story of Space, the team realised the need to develop an evaluation framework and methodology, its purpose being two-fold: a. To systematically assess the processes and outcomes of the festival, and develop a clear understanding of the nature of its impact on not just the audiences, but also the participants and the team. b. Secondly, to invite the participants and the team, to apply the lens of ‘selfevaluation’ throughout the various stages of producing the festival, so as to constantly refine our processes, communication, curation and overall outcome.

Who are the audiences who tend to engage with the ‘Story Of’ offer? What are their expectations and motivations behind this engagement? To what extent does the festival match these expectations?

What strengths can we capitalize on, and in what areas do we see room for improvement? These are some of the questions that the festival evaluation intended to answer, thereby deriving a set of insights and recommendations that could be leveraged to better our efforts for future festivals and programmes.

Broadly, the evaluation framework was designed around the principles of the ‘Theory of Change’ and the ‘Generic Learning Outcomes framework’

1.2// A wide range of qualitative and quantitative research methodologies were used These included self-evaluation toolkits and frameworks, inperson interviews with festival audiences and quantitative data collection methods.

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2.OUTCOMES & INSIGHTS 2.1// Audience attendance Over the 10 days of the festival, we saw audience attendance of approximately 5,000 people.

2.2// Dispersed festival and its effects The Story of Space was spread across 10 different venues across the city of Panjim. This dispersed configuration left single venue visitors with a limited perspective of the festival offer, however for those who

engaged with the festival over a number of days went through a journey of discovery, and got a good grasp on the multiperspective lens that the festival encouraged around the stories of space.

2.3// Dominant groups: a. Schools and Colleges - from Goa as well as other parts of India.

Their motivation to visit was that the festival touched upon topics and themes that they were being exposed to in school or college.

The experiential nature of the festival made it worth a field visit. b. The urban demographic, dominated by creative professionals, artists, scientists etc. Their motivation to visit was like-mindedness.

They came from knowledge backgrounds or areas of work, that the festival strongly resonated with.

Knowledge backgrounds & areas of work

Festival themes and underlying philosophies

Architecture

Space Free accessible learning and political themes Art-Science Metaphors

Social Impact Art-Enthusiasm

c. Would have liked to see more of‌We had hoped for a lot of engagement from local Goan families, and the local Goan community as a whole, but that didn’t happen as per our expectations.

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2.4// Other insights The pieces that had its creator present and available as the audiences came by to experience, became a lot more popular than others that were left unattended. This was a recurring case across the festival making it clear that the audience needed mediation and hand holding so as to truly understand and immerse themselves in the underlying stories that every piece brought with it.

A number of pieces at the festival used play and interactivity as a way to enthuse and capture attention. This worked effectively for all audience types, but was especially noticeable in the case of the younger, 1st - 5th grader kids.

For the young adults and college students, the intent around multiperspective thinking seemed to land well. Through conversations with this group, it became clear that they were in sync with the multiperspective lens that the festival was encouraging them to put on.

3.EXHIBIT-SPECIFIC ANALYSIS 3.1// Project sampling for in-depth evaluation From an evaluation standpoint, it was critical for our team to be able to focus efforts on particular projects that were sampled from the much larger set of projects that the festival had to offer. To that end, we narrowed down on 15 sample projects based on certain criteria like format, media, topic, thematics, etc, so that they were largely representative of the overall festival offer.

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Other than the qualitative methods of research being employed by the evaluation team, we also worked with each of these 15 project teams, to help them weave in quantitative or qualitative methods of monitoring, into the experience of their piece itself. For example, one of the sample project teams— Sound Codes, created an interactive sound installation (Acoustic Dip In Goan Heritage) that allowed audiences to experience the acoustic reverberations of several architectural spaces (natural and man-made) spanning over 4000 years.

To experience this piece, audiences would have to move to different ‘points’ in the room, and each point would transport them to a different architectural space.

To monitor the audience interactions with these different points, Sound Codes wove in a ‘counter mechanism’ into the technology of the piece. By the end of the festival we had a quantitative map with emerging patterns of audience’s interactions with this piece.

a Story of Space, wove in a thought experiment into their ‘talk meets dance performance’ piece. The point in this case was to offer a philosophical conundrum to the audience, so that they make a choice before the talk, to anchor where they stand when it comes to conservation. After they have been presented with new information, as was being done by Coralie and Prafullata, the audiences then make the same choice and contrast that for themselves.

Similarly, The ‘Are We Alone’ piece, which aimed to get people thinking about the possibility of extraterrestrial life, integrated a elegant ‘black and white sticker’ mechanism to have people express their belief in extraterrestrial life, before and after the piece.

This is a snippet of the methods, processes, outcomes and insights that emerged from the evaluation lens that the Story of Space very consciously put on. For the complete report, please do get in touch with us.

Similarly, Cora and Prafulta’s piece— Conservation as

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Deepak (21), Student, Uttar Pradesh The Story of Space festival is awesome. I just came from work and saw all the great signs at the Luis Gomes Garden. It attracted my attention so I came to see.

And I read in the newspaper it is free for all, so it is accessible to everyone. That is really great for students like me! I experienced the installation ‘Are we alone?’ First the shining stars in the black cabin and then I considered some of the questions they ask. But I am still doubting the answer.

Can I put my sticker in the middle?

Jaime (50), Ruth (45), Abner (7), Panjim, Goa Our son participated in the live experience Evolution of the Stars as a keyboard player. We are very proud of him because he learned to play the keyboard watching YouTube.

He practiced every day! And now he is in the performance of an artscience group from Poland. Amazing!

So is the Story of Space festival. It is great that children (and also we as parents) can explore together outside the classroom. It is a great learning experience for all!

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Vinay (53), Asha (45), Aarini (10), Panjim, Goa Life experience is the best.

Informal learning is so important for kids. More exploring and going out of the box. Children and adults need more creativity and imagination. Children have too much screen time. If there are opportunities for children to let them explore, it is great! We as parents try to do that a lot. It is so important for children to explore the world through different ways. Thanks Story of Space for this opportunity.

Aarini: I loved the show A Strange New Space.

Tessa was awesome!

Aseem (12), Panijm, Goa My parents saw the newspaper somewhere in Panjim. They know I like cycling and space. So they brought me here today. Now I have both!

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Khushboo (19), Student, South Goa The Story of Space festival was an extraordinary experience for me.

I attended two of its workshops.

Projection Mapping by Migratory Cultures and Clean Language by Julia and Mathias. Being a young artist and emergent writer, these two workshops helped me deepen my art making practices, and also explore new dimensions. What I loved the most was how skilled, experienced and friendly all the facilitators were.

They kept encouraging us to try new things, which allowed me to go beyond my comfort zone. For me, the most interesting part was meeting people from different cultures and nationalities while sharing a common learning space. I now know extremely diverse personalities, their stories and their travel adventures, for which I am very grateful.

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Suhani (14), Pranita (14), Manasai (14) Students, St. Michael’s School, Ahmednagar The biggest lesson we learned today is ‘Don’t ruin yourself’.

Alvina (18), Margao, Goa

Noella (21), Margao, Goa

I am doing my undergraduate in physics.

I came to know about the festival through an article written in the newspaper. I had a lot of ‘aha’ moments through the festival and enjoyed Evolution of the Stars and Cycle the Solar System, two live experiences. I was also very inspired by the different installations. I admire the effort by the different artists and scientists. Really! Hats off to you, such amazing people. I am really happy I was a part of the festival.

So happy that I also took my family to the festival on the last weekend. Thank you very much.

After seeing the amazing drawings of ADRIFT by Chitra Chandrashekhar, I did the Soundwalk by Leonie Rossler. We started at the Immaculate Conception Church in the middle of Panjim. It was great to walk around while paying attention to sound as we usually ignore small things that we hear. The workshop was really informative and fun. Leonie was great at helping us capture sounds that we were interested in. Great experience.

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Winston (75), Old Panjim, Goa I saw ‘the rainbow man’ in town and I loved it! That Japanese guy (Tsuneo Sekiguchi) is amazing. He made a rainbow using water and a mirror. Incredible how it worked. I also saw some things in Garcia da Orta, some poetry and speakers on the stage. It is so nice that everything is free and you can visit it as often if you want. Great! Maybe I come back tonight to see more. Let me check the newspaper first.

Yatin (45), Yash (13), Panjim, Goa My son is interested in Science and Space. Some of my friends sent a message on Whatsapp and told us to go. The festival is a great opportunity for my son to learn more. It is another way to learn more about Science and Space outside the classroom. I think it is important for him to learn through different ways. He was enthusiastic so we came together. So far we had a great experience.

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Sameer (33), Naman (32), Dehradun, Uttarakhand We are on holiday in Goa for a few days. We booked a ticket for the Goa Science Center. We saw all the signs of The Story of Space festival so we were curious. We went into the project Who does the sea belong to?.

That was an amazing eye-opener.

Unbelievable to see that we are harming our oceans that badly! We are changing our ecosystem: that couldn’t be meant to be, right?

Melinda (23), Cecilia (53), Panjim, Goa Our biggest ‘aha’-moment was definitely Who does the sea belong to. Never think over where my waste is going after I throw it away.

For sure we are gonna use more cloth bags and use less plastic. The world is our space where we live. We have to take care of that.

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Students, River House Academy, South Goa The thing that I liked the most was the first exhibition at the Goa Science Center, Sounds of the Spectrum, which was about the elements and their own sound and vibration. I found it very interesting and exciting, all those new discoveries. It was amazing!

Shaurya (8), Porvorim, Goa I have the solution to save the oceans: No more boats on the sea. No more dumping of industry garbage in the sea. Recycle more. And make less garbage.

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Aliisa and Jenn (right), friends and living in Goa

Lucia D’Souza (57), Panjim, Goa I am an artist so my interest is big for this kind of festival and we have too few of them in Goa. So, please more promotion for the next edition, because it’s amazing that Art and Science are for free!

Jenn: ‘I came to know of the festival from Deepti Datt who is looking for an alternative form of education for her son. I’m a trained Montessorian who is opening a Montessori school in North Goa. Many Goans are looking for alternative forms of education outside of the traditional forms.

I am hoping to offer this opportunity to the community. We need to start to encourage them to listen to their inner gut/soul in order to resolve problems currently challenging us and further nurture their creative an d n at u ral abilit ies.

I am happy that The Story of Space exists to learn and connect.’

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Abhishek (20), Sonal (47), Dinesh (52), Pune Our friends told us to go to the festival. They visited the festival the first weekend and were enthusiastic about it. So I took my parents for a daytrip to Panjim. Before Adil Shah we visited the Goa Science Center. We loved the Sounds of the Spectrum, interesting story!

Herrah (19), Student, South Goa The workshop of Julia Stern and Mathias Dunand, Clean language, was an amazing experience as it involved sound vibrations which help us understand ourselves better. The techniques we learned could be used to better our day to day life.

Jugneeta (52), Goa I heard about the festival through friends. I’ve been coming every day and I am really excited about the next project. I also gave a talk at the Speaker’s Corner in Garcia de Orta.

Kenishya (21) and Kanifnath (21), Volunteers We are master of communication students. We are here to interact with different people from different fields and different artists and scientists from India and other countries. It’s an amazing experience!

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Avani (27), Artist Ragini (26), Learner Experience Design We know one of the organizers from the festival.

Abrar Burk was in our college and he sent us a message to come and visit the festival. It is very attractive for us artists and students of Experience Design to see all the installations and projects at this festival.

Ashok (40), freelancer I have come to Goa on travels. I visited Garcia da Orta and saw all these beautiful installations and projects. Amazing to see a festival like this. I just took a newspaper to check the program. I hope I can see more, but first I am enjoying this Freedraw project.

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MUDITA

It was such a rewarding experience to be a participant at the Story of Space. The team, co-participants and visitors all left an incredible impression on me; especially so the younger audiences. Everytime a child connected with the installation and cared about their plastic consumption, I knew it was worth it.

JACKIE

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The Story of Space was a fantastic culmination of art, science, and humanity.

It has broadened my worldview and encouraged me to make more human connections and pursue learning as a lifelong endeavor.

One of the most enthralling festival experiences I had the opportunity for! Can’t wait to participate on another one!

Definitely recommended for everyone and a superb case for alternate learning.

AKASH

PAVITHRA Participating in this abstract understanding of space not as information but as experience was very rewarding.

It was a great learning experience. I’m hoping I can continue to work with and engage with The Story Of.

PANKAJ

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It’s so enriching to be in a space where the highest purpose is to meet and work together with like minded people, learn, grow and have fun doing it.

DIPTI The 5 subjects of the Interstellar Iconoclasts narratives have made an impact on not just Indian but global culture - to have, especially, young Indian women emerge excited and inspired from the VR viewing, asking questions, and wanting to discuss more was the most awe inspiring experience of the festival. The opportunity for exposure to sophisticated innovations and the leveraging of expertise in lieu of budgets, seeing the projects by all the participants, from a meteorite as music, to the evolution of a star and everything in between, was transformational.

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Sponsors & Partners

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GOVERNMENT PARTNERS

COMMUNITY PARTNER

DEVICE PARTNER

EVENT PARTNER

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SILVER SPONSORS

T A T v A Meaning | Awareness | Empowerment

RADIO PARTNER

PROJECT PARTNERS

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Past Showcase

THE STORY OF LIGHT 2015

The Story of Light Festival was our first event developed for UN’s International Year of Light 2015 in partnership with the Corporation of the City of Panjim, Goa, India.

The Story of Light was India’s first science-meets-art festival comprising of interactive installations, workshops and performances held in public spaces, all freely accessible to the general public.

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The Story of Light was a unique social and interactive platform for scientific learning and appreciation of the arts. This event, where scientists, artists, and educators collaborate for the benefit of the public, seamlessly integrates into the vision for Panjim city.

SANJITH RODRIGUES Former Commissioner, Corporation of the City of Panjim

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THE ORIGIN OF CLOUDS

by Alejandro Borsani

The Origin of Clouds documents the process by which fundamental particles become form and materiality. The visual result is an ever-changing flux of ephemeral shapes with unpredictable occurrence that emphasizes the phenomenon’s organizational logic in space and time.

Stimuli invites the audience to enter a camera obscura and experience a dance performance in an unconventional and surprising way.

Considering that our experience is limited by our senses and constructed internally as a representation of the world, Stimuli is a research about the connection of the individuals with the environment that surrounds them.

Using senses other than vision, the two dancers deepen their spatial and sensorial capacity to enter a new dimension of movement and awareness of their counterpart.

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ARCHIBIO

by Andrej Boleslavsky and Maria Judova

ArchiBio video-mapping unfolds the beauty of microscopic worlds enlarged to a giant size in the public space. It poses a question whether the relationship between nature and technology really is antagonistic, or whether the man-made technologies represent just another branch on the evolutionary tree.

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PHOTOPOESIS

by Jaden Hastings and Melanie King

The World’s largest cyanotype was created during the festival with participants lying atop the print.

Through this project, the artists explored the beauty of creating visual poetry with light and dwelled upon humanity’s relationship with the universe.

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HEISENBERG’S MICROSCOPE

by Kaushal Sapre and Midhun Mohan

Heisenberg’s Microscope is an installation that inquires about the complexity of the nature of matter through a game of chess. Quantum mechanics talks in the language of probability or chance, and Heisenberg’s principle of uncertainty professes the existence of this ambiguity as an inherent part of nature itself.

But how does this uncertainty matter? This parallel between possibilities in chess and probability in matter is what this work aims to exploit, and in the process, it gives the viewer a peek into the colossal complexity of the universe.

Cosmic Fingerprint is a visual representation of light signals, and to help the viewer rethink and answer the question: What would we think if our only glimpse into human life on Earth is based on the content of Radio and Television broadcasts?

COSMIC FINGERPRINT

by Rafaella Las and Dan Scotti

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LIGHT IN REFLECTION

by Silvia Verdolini and Manuel Scortichini Light in Reflection is a game where light coming from few spotlights can be “transported” by multiple reflections off rotating mirrors. When light reaches the target, it reflects out of the installation in a rainbow of colors. Inspired by the words of the famous Italian physicist Galileo Galilei: “the book of nature is written with geometrical characters”, the artists have built the installation based on the golden spiral shape.

Floating Flower Garden is a plantbased system to purify the heavily polluted water of St.Inez Creek in Panjim. The artists are creating a set of 30 floating garden-modules built out of locally-sourced materials.

The installation explores how plants harness the sun’s energy in the most fascinating and innovative ways, in this case, to clean water!

FLOATING GARDEN

by Kasper Fluck and Zuri Camille De Dsouza

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CLOSING CEREMONY

The last evening of the 5-day festival played out with multiple live performances, collaborations and experiments in light at the Miramar Beach in Panjim.

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Coming Up

Completes a trilogy of live and informal learning festivals with

THE STORY OF MIND 2019/20 Diving deep into the human mind to discover, learn and experience different perspectives of our own species - where we are coming from and where we could be headed with the mind as our medium.

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The Story of Foundation Shaira Shetty (Places) Rahul Gudipudi (Publications) Shazeb Shaikh (Programs) Jaya Ramchandani (Learning Frameworks) Shrinivas Ananthanarayanan (Communication) Nupur Dsouza (School and College Programs) Abrar Burk (Technology)

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(General Circle) Akshay Roongta Deshna Mehta Jaya Ramchandani Rahul Gudipudi Shaira Sequeira Shetty Shrinivas Ananthanarayanan

(Creatives & Communication) Shrinivas Ananthanarayanan Francesca Cotta Jonathan Dias Mohini Mukherjee Shivaram Ananthanarayanan Erin Montanez

(Curatorial Management) Lina Vincent Shazeb Shaikh Ana Bernardo (Film) Sanjana Nanodkar (Film)

(Exhibition Design) Deshna Mehta Ishan Mudgal Roccio Ruiz-Jarabo (Consultant) Vaishnavi Kamat

(Project Managers) Ann van den Borne Aishwarya Iyer Namrata Ganguly Prachi Bhutada Shazia Shaikh Soumi Roychowdhury

(Documentation) Shaira Sequeira Shetty Divya Sahasrabuddhe Douglas Garcia Elles van der Heijden Gasper D’Souza John Lino Demello

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(Evaluation & Sustainability) Akshay Roongta Abrar Burk Niketa Malhotra Geo Sebastian Prachi Bhutada (Education & Outreach) Nupur D’Souza Madhulika S (Consultant) (Administration) Shaira Sequeira Shetty Jocel Souza (Accounts) Jaya Ramchandani Jocel Souza (Residency Management) Noel Mark Sequeira Namrata Ganguly Prachi Bhutada Soumi Roychowdhury Shazia Shaikh (Production) Rahul Gudipudi Zubin Savla Richard Dias Kunal Haria Dilnaaz Mehta Ardra Narayanan Avian

(Volunteer Management) Nupur D’Souza (Volunteers) Anusha Vikram Ardra Narayanan Ashima Tshering Crystal Mascarenhas Anvi Dedhia Binoli Shah Devansh Dion Rodrigues Galicia Rodrigues Griffith Allan Webster Jisha Ponnachan Kanifnath Tari Keegan D’souza Minoshka Fernandes Navamya Acharya Nimmy Chacko Noor Ramola D’silva Saheel Shaikh Saleema Salwa Saloni Hardikar Shania Correia Sheena Pereira Varun Viola Rodrigues (Catalogue Design) Parvathi Venkitaraman Mentored by team at Studio Anugraha

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It is difficult to imagine a future that is humane, decent and sustainable without marked changes in the substance and process of education at all levels. —David Orr, author of Earth in Mind We are a constellation of humans working together to curate learning journeys that move beyond traditional narratives of living and working in the 21st century. We are committed to creating projects, conversations and events that offer multiple perspectives and a compassionate framework to grow from.

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