For Where Beats This Human Heart Nelly Ben-Hayoun presented a project called AIRSPACE ACTIVISM developed in collaboration with Dr Alison Williams from Newcastle University.
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Nelly Ben Hayoun is interested in how we can use design and science in our everyday lives to make them more thrilling, creative and passionate. Her work is about collaboration with experts/ scientists and amateurs; it aims to adapt science to our creative needs. Her method is to go ‘in situ’, to visit peoples' place of research to find a common ground to develop new ways of engaging the public with physics.
Often science seems to be reserved for scientists – expert practitioners who alone have the privilege of experiencing the fringes of human knowledge and the extremes of nature. Her work aims to combat this aspect of science by enlisting willing scientists in experiences that mix the creativity with technology, science with fiction, factual with artistic, amateur with expert.
She enjoys pushing the boundaries of design and science by using performances. Her installations are built as a platform to facilitate and encourage surreal interactions between audiences and scientists. They are designed to deliver physically thrilling experiences. They bring audiences into the unknown, into a journey through particle physics hosted by bold physicists. Hacking and experimenting with the everyday are her favorite hobbies, as well as trying to explode boundaries between science, design, art, amateurs and professionals.
