On 28-30 November 2024, the Brussels Planetarium welcomed us for a transformative journey of art and technology offered by the 10th Brussels Planetarium Poetry Fest and UTM Urban Travel Machines, a Creative Europe project. The final show was a mix of live performance, storytelling, typography and immersive technology, with the event bringing together Europe’s top poets and visual artists to transform the dome of the Brussels Planetarium into a 360° storytelling space.
The art universities involved in the Urban Travel Machines project are The Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp — AP University College of Applied Sciences and Arts, Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture and Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology in Warsaw. The partner planetariums include Estonia Ahhaa, Spain Museos Científicos Coruñeses, Austria Planetarium Wien and Belgium Planetarium Bruxelles.
A beautifully written article about the end-result of the years-long international cooperation project can be found here: Urban Travel Machines: Cosmos Met Poetry | Aalto University.
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