Astronaut’s Amulet
A Locket for Memory in Microgravity
By Amelia Gates and Aleksa Milojevic
An amulet that can only open in microgravity. How might memory, ritual, and personal experience endure beyond Earth? From this inquiry emerged the design of the Astronaut’s Amulet — a smooth titanium capsule that draws inspiration from the locket.
Caustic Memory
By Deming Haines
Uses projected light and water refraction to create shifting memory-scapes. The project explores perception, impermanence, and embodied recall.
Cosmic Dice
By Raven Xu
A chance-based artifact that reimagines randomness as a cosmic force. Cosmic Dice engages probability, fate, and spatial play.
Dzhanibekov’s Shot Glass
By Bohan Chen
Inspired by the “Dzhanibekov effect” (the tennis racket theorem), this artifact destabilizes balance and orientation, simulating altered gravitational physics.
A Conversation Pit in Space
By U Jean Seah
A rethinking of domestic furniture for zero gravity. The piece uses offsets, modular forms, and restraint systems to explore gathering in non-terrestrial environments.
Cosmic Harmonics
By Christy Ho
An interactive installation that translates astronomical data into sound. Visitors experience cosmic resonance through auditory immersion.
Seed
By Xinran Li
A speculative biosphere artifact that imagines how seeds adapt in altered gravitational conditions, merging design with ecological futures. The seed equipped with three flywheels, will always point to earth.
Gyro Pen
By Priscilla Barker
A writing tool stabilized by gyroscopic motion. The Gyro Pen rethinks authorship, hand–tool calibration, and balance in non-standard physics.
Candy Gyroscope
By Corinna Siu
A whimsical mechanism where candy becomes mass in rotation, teaching movement, inertia, and playful balance. Food can be more fun.
Pocket Galaxy
Grant Dokken
A hand-held device generating miniature celestial simulations. Pocket Galaxy explores scale, wonder, and speculative cosmology.
Floragami
By Kevin Wong
An origami-inspired artifact that unfolds in response to light and heat, merging plant-like adaptation and mechanical structure.
Space Video Reorientation Object
By Yang Tian and Paul Meuser
A perceptual study in visual distortion and reframing, challenging how data and perspective shape what we see.