
Tom Byrne of FamiliarStrangerFilms was on hand to capture some of the event's highlights and present them in a visually arresting short video. The video features appearances, contributions and artworks from, in order of appearance, Dan McCabe (Course Leader MA Graphic Design, University of Portsmouth), Claudia Maraston (Professor of Astrophysics, Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth), Jennifer Levasseur (Curator at the National Air and Space Museum, Washington D.C.), Ziggy Kolker (Senior Lecturer in Photography, University of Portsmouth), James Ryan (Professor of History, University of Portsmouth), Robert Poole (Professor of History, University of Central Lancashire), Rachael Brown (Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture, University of Portsmouth), Matt Smith (Reader in Applied Theatre and Puppetry, University of Portsmouth) and Simone Gumtau (Senior Lecturer in Visual Culture, University of Portsmouth).
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Dan McCabe
Dan McCabe has over 22 years’ experience as a creative practitioner within the fields of branding and packaging. He has 15 years experience as a design educator, during which time he has been at the ...

Claudia Maraston
Claudia Maraston is a Professor of Astrophysics at the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation of the University of Portsmouth. Her field of research is the formation and evolution of galaxies. She obt...

Jennifer Levasseur
Dr. Jennifer Levasseur received her BA in history from the University of Michigan in 1999, an MA in American Studies from The George Washington University in 2002, and a PhD in history at George Mason...

Ziggy Kolker
Ziggy Kolker is an artist and full-time senior lecturer on the BA(Hons) Photography and the MA Photography programmes at the University of Portsmouth. Her research interests lie in the evolving ontolo...

Robert Poole
Robert Poole is Professor of History at the University of Central Lancashire, UK, and lives in Greater Manchester. He is the author of Earthrise: how Man First Saw the Earth (Yale, 2008) and he has wr...

Rachael Brown
Rachael Brown is a Senior Lecturer at Portsmouth School of Architecture. She currently coordinates the third-year Interior Architecture and Design programme and has also acted as Course Leader for the...

Simone Gumtau
Simone Gumtau is a visual communication designer, academic researcher and lecturer. For her research, Simone has designed haptic interfaces, responsive environments, complex adaptive interaction and m...

Blue Marble
Dec 7, 2022
A series of talks, workshops, performances and artworks devoted to revisiting the impact and legacy of NASA's "Blue Marble" photograph.