THE
4 PILLARS
Design + Education Lab
Artbook
Album
Exhibit
Each element fosters a deeper exploration of human creativity and scientific inquiry. Through these collaborative platforms, we aim to inspire innovation, ignite curiosity, and forge new connections between art and science—encouraging communities to think beyond boundaries and envision a future where imagination meets discovery.
1. DESIGN + EDUCATION LAB
2023 - 2025
Our education initiatives are dedicated to inspiring the next generation of creative thinkers, innovators, and designers. Through strategic partnerships with renowned institutions such as Cranbrook Academy of Art and the Dyson School of Design, amongst others soon to be announced, we aim to foster a holistic understanding of our planet and the universe beyond.
By collaborating with these institutions, we aim to cultivate a deep sense of interconnectedness and stewardship. Through immersive workshops, interdisciplinary projects, or exploratory design programs, students are encouraged to reflect on humanity’s place in the cosmos—promoting empathy, unity, and innovative thinking that transcends traditional boundaries.
By collaborating with these institutions, we aim to cultivate a deep sense of interconnectedness and stewardship. Through immersive workshops, interdisciplinary projects, or exploratory design programs, students are encouraged to reflect on humanity’s place in the cosmos—promoting empathy, unity, and innovative thinking that transcends traditional boundaries.
2. ARTBOOK
2025
The Artbook
Inploration the artbook is a 350 page hardcover compendium of artwork, interviews and essays with the function of capturing as many different views of the same sky as possible. The book is sustainably printed on recycled paper, featuring 55 interviews and the work of 197 artists examined through these eight chapters.
The artbook includes Mobile-based augmented reality featuring animations, videos, 3D renders, 2D graphics, and sound clips. It intertwines the analog and the digital by using printed books and extended reality (XR) to generate an immersive reading experience.
Etched into archival nickel-based Nanofiche, the contents of Inploration will be memorialized as part of Arch Mission Foundation’s future payload to space.
Each page of the Inploration artbook (including text and images) will be engraved into the Nanofiche, which is a space-grade, lightweight, highly durable material built to last 50 million years or longer on the Moon. By including Inploration in the Lunar Library, it serves as an aspirational message to Earthlings of today and serves as a message to others long after we are gone.
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Each page of the Inploration artbook (including text and images) will be engraved into the Nanofiche, which is a space-grade, lightweight, highly durable material built to last 50 million years or longer on the Moon. By including Inploration in the Lunar Library, it serves as an aspirational message to Earthlings of today and serves as a message to others long after we are gone.
Overview Effect
Relaying a cognitive shift in awareness of the delicate fragility of our habitat, home, species and self that is reportedly sparked while viewing Earth from space
Self and Space
Locating self within the greater cosmos, both in terms of space and time. Exploring the human experience framed against the backdrop of the cosmos and shifting our understanding of existence
Spaces of Reimagination
Pioneering technologists, innovators, industrialists forging a new relationship with space for humanity, powered by re-imagined means of engineering, design and enterprise. Legacy of responsibility; collective perseverance + collaborative action
Inploring to the Space Within
Understanding the role that imagining the future plays in determining the course of the world that we, and generations to follow will live in. Evisioning other futures and untold perspecitves. Change, invention and futuring
Featuring Artists:
Lita Albequerque - examining the earth, sky and human form at the ends of Earth
Virgil Ortiz - indigenous storytelling in artmaking, Mother Earth and Father Sky as one
Lita Albequerque - examining the earth, sky and human form at the ends of Earth
Virgil Ortiz - indigenous storytelling in artmaking, Mother Earth and Father Sky as one
Featuring Artists:
Azuma Makoto - botanicals in space and its cultural implications
Lia Halloran - capturing the sunlight to reveal the universe
Azuma Makoto - botanicals in space and its cultural implications
Lia Halloran - capturing the sunlight to reveal the universe
Featuring Artists:
Studio Drift - choreographed sculptures and kinetic installations simulating nature
Nahum Romero - representation of LGBTQ in space, queer ecologies and Kosmica
Studio Drift - choreographed sculptures and kinetic installations simulating nature
Nahum Romero - representation of LGBTQ in space, queer ecologies and Kosmica
Featuring Artists:
Cai Guo-Qiang - using the sky as an art medium
IR Bach - utilizing ai, machine intelligence, and new technologies for world-building
Erika Blumenfeld - partnering with NASA to make art/science discoveries
Cai Guo-Qiang - using the sky as an art medium
IR Bach - utilizing ai, machine intelligence, and new technologies for world-building
Erika Blumenfeld - partnering with NASA to make art/science discoveries
3. ALBUM
2025
The Inploration LP soundtrack album will be released in conjunction with the book. Album content to include:
- Infinite River - Space Mirror - Warren DeFever, Gretchen Davidson, Joey Mazola
- Esperanza Spalding - Five time Grammy Award Winning American bassist, singer, and composer
- Suzanne Ciani - legendary musician, sound designer, composer, quadraphonic sound
- Wilco - The Universe - from the band’s 12th album Cruel Country
- Endless Labyrinth - Karin Park, Brian Lustmord, Mo KC
4. EXHIBIT
2029The Exhibit
Inploration is an exhibit utilizing combined power of inspiration and science to provoke wonder, as well as a call to action. By using creative ingenuity to connect the public to scientific awareness and futures literacy, the exhibit is designed to engender a sense of possibility amongst global citizens.
New Overview Effects
How might we facilitate the creation of experiences that cultivate access to and understanding of the ideas that the Overview Effect represents?
Reimagining the Future
How might we democratize access to the capability of futures literacy, and empower people to better understand the role that the future plays in what they see, do and what our world will become?
Ancestral Celestial Intelligence
How might we enable new experiences in accessing the spectrum of cultural astronom to broaden our comprehension and appreciation of our shared universe?
Power by Numbers
How might understanding, urgency, inspiration, possibility and innovation intersect to evoke sustained engagement and empowerment to answer our most pressing challenges in the ecology of our planet?
The curatoratorial impact of Inploration is achieved through the diversity of contributing voices and perspectives in medium, discipline, cultural and geographical background.
The work of artists cohabitate with astronauts, scientists, philosophers, designers, technologists, futurists, and educators to compose a vividly intersectional examination of the topic.
Featuring multimedia and immersive artworks by artists, designers, and scientists featured in the Artbook to create a multi-sensory experience.