Olafur Eliasson: Your planetary assembly

Your planetary assembly forms an attractive meeting place in Fallaize Park, in Oxford North, UK. The artwork acts as a public forum or agora, where people may gather, talk, or spend time and share space together. All these associations point more generally to science and the pursuit of knowledge – the aims of the surrounding laboratories and offices of Oxford North. Your planetary assembly is a major public art installation of eight illuminated planetary sculptures set within Fallaize Park, a new two-acre public park, inspired by models of the solar system and reminiscent of the orreries at the University of Oxford's History of Science Museum. "Your planetary assembly at Oxford North is an invitation to co-create space, to experience your surroundings as part of a larger negotiation of self, community and the world. The eight glass polyhedrons spread across Fallaize Park invite you to gather, talk, spend time, and share space with one another. This work is open to your interpretation: you may see the polyhedra as elements, molecules or crystals. Your planetary assembly is a public space for everyone — a peaceful oasis that emerges from the greenery of the park, spreading out like a cluster of stars or a cloud of gas in outer space." — Olafur Eliasson