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the venue
The Galveston Convention Center
the vibes
The project
A split room theme: half silver craters, half red planet
Nasa's Johnson Space Center holiday staff party
Moon & Mars
In honor of NASA's greatest hits: the historic Moon landings as well as their ongoing Mars missions, Big Time Creatives Event Management + Design out of Austin, TX coordinated a playful yet reverent split-room thematic experience for the Johnson Space Center's staff at their 2024 holiday party. A Mars homage was especially relevant given the 3D-printed CHAPEA (Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog & Habitat) human dwelling and research space currently being developed and tested by NASA scientists, which "will simulate a Mars habitat to support long-duration, exploration-class space missions."
- nasa.gov/humans-in-space/chapea/habitat/
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the project details
I got to return to my mixed-media/Anthropologie Display Coordination roots with this project, as the client and planner both articulated that they would be highly interested in non-floral elements as the building blocks for the evening's centerpieces. Not a single fresh flower appeared in the mix (appropriate, as a reflection of the abiotic nature of the moon, at least). Instead, I hand-crafted moon craters out of air dry modeling clay and styled them around cloches housing surface-(and mythos)-of-the-moon-inspired dried-and-preserved plant designs, or kinetic sand-based tableaus, one of which sported a tiny metal model of the Moon Rover (which comically took my team and I hours to assemble, but I was committed to the bit.) For the red planet side of the room, and in a brilliant stroke of creative genius, my engineer-brained brother in law created a specially commissioned collection of vases for me using his 3D printer. The hallmark ridged texture and red-brown color served as a nod to the CHAPEA project, but if that weren't enough, the opening of the vessels were a scaled replica of the outline of a crater from the surface of Mars in the planet’s South Pole Terrain. Fabricated with a twist rate of -84.764 degrees, a nod to the centered latitude on which the image (produced by HiRISE on 07 July 2018) was found. All Collin's idea. With thanks to Nasa/JPL-Caltech/UArizona for making the file public domain.
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the collaborators
NASA | Johnson Space Center | Big Time Creatives | Independent Creative Engineer Collin Mayer | Galveston Island Convention Center
No outer space, just space, the light of all the not yet stars
Drifting like a bright mist, and all of us, and everything Already there but unconstrained by form.
"Different crews will be selected to live in the CHAPEA habitat for one-year missions. Each crew will include four individuals and two alternates. The analog missions will provide valuable insights and information to assess NASA’s space food system as well as physical and behavioral health and performance outcomes for future space missions. Research from the habitat will be used by NASA to inform risk and resource trades to support crew health and performance while living on Mars during an extended duration mission." -nasa.gov, Humans in Space
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-Astronomer Rebecca Elson / from “Antidotes to Fear of Death” in “A Responsibility to Awe”
Hi, I’m Hannah — florist, folklore enthusiast, and your local moss goblin with a penchant for logistics planning
I run Edges Wild Studio, a one-woman floral design house where story, art, and botany meet. Whether you're planning a wedding that feels more like a spell than a ceremony or building an immersive brand campaign that needs a wild world to hold it in, I'm your gal. My work blends myth and material together, through meticulous planning, sharp creative instincts, and the occasional zip tie. I have a wealth of experience in weddings, editorial shoots, public art, brand launches, and many weirdly wonderful one-offs. I specialize in taking your vision (even the half-formed and too-strange-for-Pinterest) and giving it tactile, visual form that people remember. I would love to hear from you if you're ready to create something unrepeatable, unexpected, and intensely alive!
