PROJECT TITLE
“16.7 Light Years”

PROJECT TYPE
Ceramics

EXHIBITED AT
Milan Design Week (2024) 

In 1983, two Stanford scientists drunkenly transmitted 13 images into outer space, showing the evolution of life on Earth. Reproduced here on a series of dessert plates, this strange set of images becomes both an invitation – perhaps for aliens to join for tea – and a celebration of a drunken moment of friendship.

A few months ago, forty years after the images were originally transmitted into space, scientists in Japan have deployed a 210-foot-wide antenna dish in the hopes of finally receiving a reply.

Exhibited at Milan Design Week, as part of ‘Sit, Feast on Your Life’ at DOPO? Space. Tableware made by 50 international creatives was set out on a 10-metre-long fir table. Visitors were encourage to use the tableware while watching a series of live events, including a talk with Jon Marshall, partner of Pentagram; Gabriel Roland, director of Vienna Design Week; and Oli Stratford, editor-in-chief of Disegno. The talk was chaired by Janice Li, curator at the Wellcome Collection.