Factum Arte collaborated with Bruce Mau on his new exhibition 'The Mosaic Manifesto: A Love Letter to the XO Planets’. A series of six "next(ing)" globes that articulate the challenges we face and a new, positive future beyond the limitations of a single planet. The globes reveal the deep rich beauty of our cosmos and the diversity and complexity of its dynamic ecosystems. They express our optimism, ingenuity, wisdom, and cooperative efforts to address existential threats and ensure the future of interplanetary life.

Some of the globes are split in half to reveal a completely different interior; for example, Memory, Reason, and Imagination displays Diderot and d’Alembert’s Encyclopédie on the exterior and opens to a contemporary map of science by team lead Johan Bollen, visualising activity patterns based on nearly one billion worldwide user interactions with natural science, social science, and humanities journals, as recorded by web portals. One globe brings together the powerful statements of thirty-three diversely inspiring manifestos into a manifesto of manifestos imagining a beautiful future, and another globe maps the regions of our planet preserved for the future of life. Mau’s inspiration for this work traces its roots back to the Apollo mission and the awe-inspiring first images of Earth from space — our beautiful blue marble.

The elevated printed map of science for Memory, Reason, and Imagination © Oak Taylor-Smith | Factum Arte

Testing the final positioning inside the globe © Oak Taylor-Smith | Factum Arte

'Blended Worlds: Experiments In Interplanetary Imagination' was developed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, an operating division of Caltech and a Federally Funded Research and Development Center for NASA, in collaboration with the City of Glendale. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory acknowledges the generous support of the Glendale Arts and Culture Commission and the Glendale Library, Arts & Culture Trust.