Disaster Playground
Disaster Playground is a creative platform investigating the design of emergency procedures in the space programme, with world renowned space experts at NASA, the SETI Institute and an all star team of composers, writers and international collaborators.
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Photography by Nick Ballon
As part of Disaster Playground, Ben Hayoun took part in the Fifty-seventh session of the United Nations’ Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space at the United Nations Office at Vienna, Vienna International Center, Vienna, Austria on June 19, 2014. Ben Hayoun interviewed Dr. Sergio Camacho-Lara, Former Director, United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs; on the procedure in place with Potentially Hazardous Near Earth Objects (asteroids). The entire session was held from 11-20 June 2014. A number of countries, including Russia, Netherlands, Venezuela and Pakistan spoke about different aspects of long-term sustainability of outer space activities. Disaster Management and Emergency Response continue to be key areas of concern from various members of the session.
3 June 2014, Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space Fifty-Seventh Session
Wired magazine awards Nelly Ben Hayoun with a WIRED Innovation fellowship for her work to date. The 12 WIRED Innovation Fellows were selected by Wired editorial team on their potential to make a significant impact on the world .
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Arts Council England Awards the Arts Council England Exceptional Award to Disaster Playground! Disaster Playground’s production is co-commissioned through Broadway’s Near Now Programme.
Peter Knott, Area Director, Arts Council England said: “The Exceptional Awards programme is a chance for us to invest in really remarkable ideas of national importance. Disaster Playground definitely falls within this category. Taking space exploration as its inspiration it will be a fascinating and cutting-edge production that audiences can enjoy as a live experience.”
Mathew Trivett, Producer behind the Near Now programme said: “We are proud to have worked with Nelly on Disaster Playground from research and development through to now its production. Nelly Ben Hayoun’s practice, represents one of the nation’s brightest artistic talents, a fearless and passionate provocateur who has regularly been described as an ‘manufacturer of the impossible’.”
The Project will be released in 2015, for updates please look at the dedicated project website:
www.disasterplayground.com
 WeTransfer partners with Head of Experiences and collaborator, Nelly Ben Hayoun, to launch Politics!, a series of cartoons and illustrations, which will feature the work of at least one satirical cartoonist from each European country. The weekly illustrations will comment on the recent European elections and the state of European politics.
EUROPEAN ELECTIONS 2014 by Jean Jullien ©, May 2014
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