{"product_id":"we-cant-stop-thinking-about-the-future-9781907222542","title":"We Can't Stop Thinking about the Future","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Aleksandra Mir\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: The MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Strange Attractor Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe story of Alexandra Mir's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSpace Tapestry: Faraway Mission\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003es, with reproductions of the finished work and images from its collaborative creation with twenty-five young artists.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis book provides a companion to Aleksandra Mir's latest body of work \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSpace Tapestry: Faraway Mission\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003es, exhibited at Tate Liverpool and Modern Art Oxford.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eInspired by the Bayeux Tapestry and the anonymous artists who depicted Halley's Comet in 1066, the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSpace Tapestry \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis a large-scale, hand-drawn monochrome wall-hanging that forms an immersive environment. Much like a graphic novel, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSpace Tapestry\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e tells an episodic visual story of space travel.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOver the past three years, Mir has maintained dialogues with professionals in the space industry and academia who have informed and inspired her. The work draws on themes relating to current debates, recorded events, scientific discoveries, technological innovations and predictions of imagined futures that currently affect all our lives.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis book contains both reproductions of the finished work and images from its collaborative creation with twenty-five young artists. It also contains sixteen in-depth new interviews with a wide range of professionals working in the space industries today, providing an intimate and informative insight into the present and future of space exploration.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eInterviewees\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJan Woerner, Director General of the European Space Agency, Paris • Marek Kukula, Public Astronomer, Royal Observatory Greenwich, London • Clara Sousa-Silva, Quantum Astrochemist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA • Chris Welch, Director of the interdisciplinary MSc in Space Studies, International Space University in Strasbourg • Sanjeev Gupta, Strategic Planner, NASA Mars Rover Mission • Alice Gorman, Space Archeologist, Flinders University, Adelaide\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45268596326551,"sku":"9781907222542","price":1228.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781907222542.webp?v=1769236204","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/we-cant-stop-thinking-about-the-future-9781907222542","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}