Let’s build a mountain

A space shield reflecting sunlight, white foil spanning the desert, cloud factories above the sea: not science fiction, but concrete ideas that are actually being explored.

All around the world, scientists are working on new techniques that resolve our inconveniences, repair deficiencies, or simply entertain us. We generate snow when we want to ski on a green Alpine meadow, we create two identical snowflakes to show that we are capable of something so exceptional. Science and technology as a toolbox for the shapable world.

The project 'Let's build a mountain' explores the limits of the shapable, in which the Rhône glacier is a metaphor for the friction between the human urge to control and the resilient autonomy of nature.

‘Ultimately, we can't do anything without the world. But without us, the world has no problem at all’ – Lieke Marsman.

Let’s build a mountain

A space shield reflecting sunlight, white foil spanning the desert, cloud factories above the sea: not science fiction, but concrete ideas that are actually being explored.

All around the world, scientists are working on new techniques that resolve our inconveniences, repair deficiencies, or simply entertain us. We generate snow when we want to ski on a green Alpine meadow, we create two identical snowflakes to show that we are capable of something so exceptional. Science and technology as a toolbox for the shapable world.

The project 'Let's build a mountain' explores the limits of the shapable, in which the Rhône glacier is a metaphor for the friction between the human urge to control and the resilient autonomy of nature.

‘Ultimately, we can't do anything without the world. But without us, the world has no problem at all’ – Lieke Marsman.

Frederike Kijftenbelt

Let’s build a mountain

Let’s build a mountain