The cross-disciplinary research conducted by the artists in collaboration with the scientists aims to break down barriers between disciplines and create a sparkle for new reflections on tomorrow’s living conditions on Earth and beyond.  

The Brussels based architects BC Materials & Studies, as well as two astrophysics researchers based in Grenoble, Faustine Cantalloube and Fabien Louvet will thus regularly meet up with artists Pauline Julier and Delcy Morelos for a 1-year research project.  

BC Materials & Studies 

Scientists working with Delcy Morelos. BC is BC architects & studies & materials. They operate through 3 legal entities: BC architects (architecture company), BC studies (non-profit education laboratory), and BC materials (material production cooperative). BC is a hybrid practice, designing and undertaking "acts of building" towards systemic change in the construction sector. They strive for bioregional, low-tech, circular, beautiful and inclusive design. They work with their minds and hands, undertaking activities such as community organisation, material production, contracting, teaching, prototyping. 

BC studies is a research and education laboratory investigating the material environment through processes of construction and production. BC studies manifests itself in teaching & education, workshops, consultancy, exhibitions and published research. 

Faustine Cantalloube 

Scientist working with artist Pauline Julier. Faustine Cantalloube is a CNRS researcher at the Grenoble Institute of Planetology and Astrophysics (France). She is a specialist in exoplanet imaging instrumentation, working mainly on three aspects: (1) performance diagnostics for instruments currently in operation, (2) the design of image processing methods to detect exoplanets, and (3) the design of future generations of instruments dedicated to exoplanet imaging. Taking advantage of the fascination that astronomy arouses to discuss different aspects of society, Faustine Cantalloube is deeply involved in scientific mediation. For several years now, she has been studying the impact of climate change on the quality of astronomical observations, in order to alert her colleagues and raise public awareness on the urgent need to change social paradigms. 

Fabien Louvet 

Scientist for Pauline Julier. Fabien Louvet did a thesis in Paris on the influence of gas density and shocks on the formation of massive stars. He then conducted two post-doctorates in Santiago de Chile on the influence of the magnetic field on star formation. He continued with a final post-doctorate on numerical modeling of star formation, before being recruited by the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). Fabien Louvet now works in Grenoble where he is interested in all the physical and chemical processes involved in the transition from a cold, diffuse cloud of gas to a Sun-Planet system like ours.