The Globe team collaborated on a cross-disciplinary research paper
‘Globe's encounters and the art of rolling: home, migration and belonging’ has been accepted for publication in the journal ‘Cultural Geographies’. The paper explores Globe’s multiple ways of engaging with the city and geographies of encounter.
Last chance to see Globe and her films at the Tate Exchange: 1st May to 6th May 2018
Home, home, home, what is home?
Bus rides and skate parks, a journey through North Kensington
Globe makes it onto the number 52 bus and with some help enjoys a roll around the skateboard park in Meanwhile Gardens.
Globe enjoyed a musical moment at the Exhibition Road Festival
Throughout the weekend Globe interacted with the public as hundreds of people watched her new film ‘Concrete Flowers’ which is co-created with the Community Youth Action Group.
Scratching the surface
Globe’s exterior has slowly transformed over the past few months. A green patina has formed on her axis points and her copper surface has gradually darkened.
The Community Youth Action Group are the winners of the ‘Saatchi - Art Explosion Exhibition’
Their globes will be on show at the Saatchi Gallery from 26th July 2019.
‘Calais is in Paris’ A workshop at The University of London Institute in Paris
On 12th May 2017, as part of a day-long workshop at ULIP, ‘Here be Dragons’ will be screened to a group of unaccompanied minors currently based in Paris.
A Globe amongst globes
Deep in the Science Museum’s conservation stores, Globe and the Community Youth Action Group were given a wonderful insight into some of the museum’s globe collection.
Concrete Flowers
Globe’s new film ‘Concrete Flowers’ is a bittersweet and heartfelt insight into the Community Youth Action Groups neighbourhood of North Kensington seen through their eyes.
What is this?
The Epic Youth Group rolled Globe into a Sainsbury’s superstore. The automatic doors opened and we spotted ourselves on CCTV. Who’s watching who?
Leaving through the back door
Globe’s spatial adventure; rolling through the corridors, doors and lifts of Tate Modern.
What happens to the scars we cannot see?
When your printer knows best… A new set of questions in preparation for Globe’s Tate Exchange workshop on 3rd May 2018 between 2pm and 4pm.
Rolling India
Globe has no borders. She is a perpetual alien, a foreign body, a meteorite from outer space, a temporary export far from home. Synthesised from stars, she is always on the move.
Globe and her films go on show at the Tate Exchange
‘Producing Memory: Maps, Materials, Belongings’ is a series of provocative discussions, displays, workshops and screenings exploring how memory is produced in relation to material, objects and places.
The Globe team presents a workshop and seminar at the University of Trento
Last year the British Prime Minster famously said ‘ If you believe you’re a citizen of the world, you’re a citizen of nowhere’.
What can we learn from 'damage'?
Megan Barford, Curator of Cartography shares her thoughts on hosting Globe at the National Maritime Museum.
'Channel S’ interviews Globe
On the day of the Referendum vote, Globe visited a polling station on the Mile End Road.
Rolling from the National Maritime Museum to Torridon School
Globe oscillates east and west along the Meridian Line.
Globe making workshop at Nahra School
The Globe team with staff and students from O.P. Jindal Global University visited a small village outside Sonipat in the state of Haryana, where farmers were controversially burning their crops.
Globe takes a moment to reflect
Throughout the summer Globe has travelled around east London encountering many people along its path.
Screening at Peopling the Palace(s)
The screening will be followed by Home?, a Long Table discussion on belonging, migration and collaborative arts practice.
Globe travels to The National Maritime Museum, the home of the National Globe collection
On the day Sadiq Khan triggered an alert for high air pollution in London due to polluted air from the continent combined with toxic air at home, Globe travelled to the NMM in Greenwich where it will be on display at various events.
Globe’s film launch: ‘Here Be Dragons’ at the Geffrye Museum
Please join us for Globe’s first public screening of ‘Here Be Dragons’.
Come roll with us
Upcoming August dates. Come rain or shine Globe will be rolling on the following dates;
Globe travels to the Royal Geographical Society
On 30th August Globe will be travelling across London to take part in the Royal Geographical Society annual conference.
Globe rolls along the Regents Canal
Globe has covered many miles traveling along the streets of Tower Hamlets.
Globe rolls into position
Here she sits under the watchful eyes of The National Maritime Museum’s Figureheads.
Floreat Salopia! Globe goes to Shrewsbury
Like so many migrants, East London was Platun’s parent’s first port of call. They subsequently moved to Bayston Hill, a village on the outskirts of Shrewsbury, where she was born and spent the first 15 years of her life.
There’s no place like home?
Globe visited Baytson Hill, Platun’s home village. One of the women we met spoke about living in a bubble and people staying close to where they are “born and bred”.
Kingsland Road to the Mile End Road
On 5th September Globe travelled back east from the Royal Geographical Society and visited new territory, embarking on a journey along the Kingsland road and making her way back to QMUL.
Following the lines
This project has been inspired by the work of geographers such as Doreen Massey and Denis Cosgrove.
Globe goes to Oslo
(Well almost!) We presented a paper at the 18th Nordic Migration Conference (Oslo 10-11th August) on the intersections between research and practice.
Globe rolls to Mulberry School for Girls
Globe was rolled past Whitechapel Market and along Commercial Road before arriving at its destination: Mulberry school for Girls.
Globe takes to the stage as part of ‘Peopling the Palace’
Globe took part in ‘Peopling the Palace’ a festival of groundbreaking experimental theatre, music, dance and debate.
We're off!
Members of the public successfully rolled Globe around campus during the Communities Festival on 4th June.
Globe inspiration
Globe is partly inspired by the Hunt-Lenox Globe, which was built in the early 1500s, making it one of the first European globes ever made.
First launch
Globe’s first public launch will be on 4th June 2016, as part of the Community Festival at Queen Mary University of London.
Globe is now fully fabricated
It was safely delivered to campus on 23rd May and rolled into the Arts One building.
This is the first image taken inside Globe
Copper is created in massive stars, a luminous sphere of plasma, and is present in the Earth's crust.
In April Globe started off life as a 3mm sheet of copper
It was annealed four times, a process where the metal is heated to a specific temperature and then allowed to cool slowly.