Residents of Solar Space explores and questions our relationship to the sun. The project creates a new narrative combining scientific knowledge, materials and design to encourage a healthier and more sustainable life under the sun.
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Too much sunlight can be a danger to our health, but so can a deficiency. In response, we smear ourselves with chemicals, or reach out to the pharmaceutical industry for nutritional supplements to make up for our lack of sunlight. In contrast, Kato proposes alternative approaches and materials in a new awareness to the sun.
A framing video work explores our complex relationship to the sun. Using a beach towel as the narrator, the video explores the systemic influences that have shaped the current relationship between sun and skin.
The objects offer tangible alternatives in the quest for a healthier and more sustainable life under the sun. What if we replaced a cream with a piece of clothing? And a nutritional supplement with a different approach to materials? What if our objects reminded us of the power of the sun through time?
Residents of Solar Space opens the broader social debate on how we interact with the sun and our health, and offers tangible alternatives in the quest for a healthier and more sustainable life under the sun.
