AN OBSERVATORY When in Cormiers, we’ll also begin a conversation with families about their desires for the future of the community center, while taking measurements and drawing up plans to add a new set of features to the domes. Working with children and adults, we will explore different ways we can embed lenses in the walls and ceiling, to create a multimodal camera obscura that demonstrates the science of light while creating opportunities to observe and delight in images of the natural world, and of each other. When we return to NYC, we’ll grind some lenses to the specifications of the domes and come back in the spring to install them, provoking a longer, in-depth exploration of the eye, the camera, and the image.
Through this initial programming on light, we wish to inaugurate the domes as a space for children, and help Cormiers families move towards the creation of a resilient, community-run learning center. ... The collaboration between Konbit and Guilds is built around our common belief that spaces of joy and curiosity are the ether in which we become our truest selves. We are excited to participate in the creation of a space dedicated to this becoming: a space that encourages the scientific and aesthetic exploration of the world around us, of phenomena both as commonplace and as mysterious as light.