Space Exploration.

So-called ‘gatekeepers,’ cultural, economic and internet sentinels that determine and manage the flow of data and knowledge, do not always operate in the same realm as individuals and teams committed to the advancement and expansion of new knowledge, horizons and ideals. Rather, ‘gatekeepers’ often reside within a framework where knowledge and output is enabled principally by control through endorsed factual, material or fiscal value, and measured against other comparable outputs or units of value.

Where something ‘unfamiliar’ may not initially be afforded space, platform, or indeed dignity, it may never be able to assume the significance and potential it merits until the something garners respect and value through extended contact, proximity and familiarity. By which time, the something may no longer be considered new knowledge, and its currency becomes diminished.

It is vital, therefore, that there is the appropriate freedom and capacity for strange and unexplained ideas to be tested out, and crucially where they are allowed to fail. Everyone must be complicit in this effort, and it is up to all of us to identify, champion, and preserve dedicated spaces in which to find difference and re-evaluation.