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Lumen Observatory

Web · 2024

Lumen Observatory

An interactive night sky for a public observatory, built to be explored rather than read.

Client
Lumen Public Observatory
Role
Creative development
Timeline
9 weeks
Year
2024
  • Interaction design
  • WebGL
  • Exhibition microsite

The brief

Lumen was opening an exhibition about the stars you can no longer see from the city. They wanted visitors to keep exploring at home, long after the visit.

The approach

We mapped real star data into a sky you can drag, zoom and wipe clean of light pollution. Every constellation unlocks a short story recorded by the observatory's astronomers, and the whole sky runs smoothly in the browser without a download.

The result

A microsite that school groups now use as homework, and a dark-sky campaign that started in the browser and ended up on the city council's agenda.

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