Telescope Landscapes
Meshworks principal, Guy Trangos, is completing his doctoral studies. His research centres on the architecture of large-scale scientific projects, with the focus on the world’s biggest radio telescopes. These sites have a direct hand in mediating our human relationship with space, but are in themselves significant spatial interventions in often isolated places, serving to mediate intensely local processes with significantly global research ambitions. Guy is building a comparative thesis around the means through which space is produced at these sites and how they in turn build outer space.
This year saw him focussed primarily on the fieldwork components of his research. He is investigating four sites: FAST in Guizhou Province, China; ALMA in Chile’s Atacama; the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico; and the MeerKAT (SKA) in South Africa’s Karoo. Below are a few images of the varied landscapes that Guy encountered on his research travels this year.
