Space Project, with We The Curious Museum
Room 13 is a space where children are always curious, experimenting and finding out. This means that science is often as present as creativity and art. In fact, the boundaries between those ‘subjects’ do not exist in the same way as they do elsewhere. Because of this, we have a good relationship with We The Curious Science Museum, where “boundaries are removed between science, art, people and ideas.” Read more about our space project and our commissioned creative short film about space below
Space Project
In 2017, when We The Curious museum was changing its name, focus and exhibits, they gathered in 10,000 questions from people all over Bristol – things they were curious to know about their bodies, lives, world, universe. They then chose just seven of these to form the basis of their new exhibits. Amazingly (and unbeknown to them) one of the questions was from a Room 13er from Hartcliffe, Chloe. She asked: “Is there another me in the universe?”.
Following Chloe’s inspiration and resulting exhibit, we were invited to collaborate with We The Curious to help develop new space science related content for the museum. As part of this funded project, all Year 5 children at Hareclive school (53) visited the city science museum to explore the new exhibits and the planetarium. Space scientists with a range of different expertise also visited Hareclive school to ‘talk space’ with children. A mini rocket was launched from the Hareclive playground!
Room 13 creative short film about space
As part of the space visits and discussions, Room 13 was commissioned to take up the exploration of three more space questions with other studio users and children. They were: What does it look like on the edge of the Universe? Is there a planet out there we don’t know about – and if so, how do we know it’s there? What is on the other side of a black hole?
From here, we co-developed a creative response – a film – that the museum could use on its website for engagement work. The Management Team decided on “something ‘funky' (that means a bit weird and cool but still making sense), something funny and nice and interesting to look at. Also simple, clever and family friendly.” The result is A Question in Space, our creative, playful short film that considers these cosmic questions through the medium of a space-age quiz show!
