Exploring Exoplanets
Exploring Exoplanets is an art exhibition based on the scientific results of the CHAMELEON network.
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Metafuturism
"Knowing the future is impossible, but imagination helps us to shape it"
Metafuturism is a constellation of transdisciplinary projects that integrates concepts from clinical epidemiology and meta-research. It is a methodological approach that shares traits with speculative and critical design, using imagined scenarios, props, imagery, diegetic prototypes, iterative R&D, and science fiction writing to raise questions regarding preferable futures.
Imagine a sunrise from a star much dimmer than our sun, through an atmosphere much thinner than ours. How the colors dance and the air flickers as you see your two planetary neighbours rise. This scene might very well happen on the three exoplanets Klipaki, TrappistD and Exo5. In one of our Metafuturism workshops, the participants find themselves on this foreign worlds. Within a new environment and social structures, they have to solve different challenges and discuss how the societies would evolve and adapt. Within this environment, the participants are less burdened by earthly costumes and are free to create new solutions to not so distant problems.
Investigating, predicting and tackling challenges of the future already today requires a variety of skills. Within the Metafuturism, people from different fields work together to create an environment where people can work on, and hopefully solve, interesting problems of the future already today. For me, coming from a physics background, it has been an immensely enriching experience to work together with creative people from many backgrounds. It is always surprising how different work routines and problem-solving strategies can be. Working together helps us all to enhance our skills and broaden our horizon.
SEADS
SEADS (Space Ecologies Art and Design) is a transdisciplinary and cross-cultural collective of artists, scientists, engineers and activists.
MEME (Massive Exoplanet Meme Exposition)
Together with 3 friends, I co-founded the MEME. Every year in January, the MEME presents memes all around exoplanets, astrophysics and student life.
ARIS
ARIS is the rocket team of ETH Zuerich. In 2019, I was the payload team leader and together we won 2nd place.
TeamDerpalert
A game development team that started from a high school project. Several groups worked on the design, coding and screen play.
Astrowoche
A week on Diavolezza at 3000m trying to observe stellar clusters during a snow storm.
SYPT (Swiss Young Physicist Tournament)
The SYPT is a annual competition where high school students have to prepare, conduct and present a physics experiment.
Around Distant Suns
A collaboration between writers and exoplanet scientists to create short stories, poems and radio plays based on contemporary research.
Screen Play Writing
Writing stories and bringing them to life has always been a fascination of mine. With Dungeons and Dragons I have a way to live it.