Moon Vehicle: Reflections from an Artist-Led Children's Workshop on the Chandrayaan-1 Spacecraft's Mission to the Moon
Author(s) -
Joanna Griffin
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
leonardo
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.254
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1530-9282
pISSN - 0024-094X
DOI - 10.1162/leon_a_00363
Subject(s) - spacecraft , agency (philosophy) , astrobiology , visual arts , art history , history , sociology , art , engineering , aerospace engineering , physics , social science
This article reflects on the journey to the Moon of the spacecraft Chandrayaan-1 as it was interpreted through an artist-led workshop. The workshop participants were a group of children who lived close to where Chandrayaan was built and some of the engineers and scientists responsible for creating the spacecraft. Insights from the workshop show how a mission to the Moon draws on both the technological and the imaginative; they also have bearing on the relative agency of these individuals to contribute to the Moon missions in ways that are personally meaningful to them.
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