Worlds We Carry

Worlds We Carry is an interactive installation that invites the public to imagine what we should carry forward into the future, whether into space or here on Earth.

Participants are invited to map the places that matter to them – from corner parks to neighborhood restaurants – and share what gives these spaces meaning. Each pin contributes to a collective topography: a shared reflection on the elements of our world worth preserving, physically and emotionally.

Framed through the metaphor of space travel, the project asks: if we were to leave Earth, what would we bring with us? Which places, memories, and atmospheres would we carry into imagined new worlds? This is a meditation on fragility, value, and care: in the face of change, what deserves our attention, our preservation, our love?

By combining mapping technologies with participatory storytelling, the project creates an evolving constellation of memory, longing, and imagination – a human atlas of what makes life on Earth worth treasuring.

Worlds We Carry is a collaboration between Space To The People and Anna Zhang.

About Space To The People and Anna Zhang:

Anna Zhang is an artist and creative technologist whose practice centers on imaging and reimagining our relationships with technology. Her work has been featured in the Royal Photographic Journal, Real Life, the New Media Caucus, Buzzfeed, and Forbes, and has been exhibited at the National Museum of American History and Gray Area. She is a recipient of the Judson-Morrissey Excellence in New Media Award, has been recognized on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list, and is a member of NEW INC.

Aurélie Barbier (Space To the People) is a city planner, designer, and GIS specialist whose work explores how participatory design and digital mapping can nurture civic imagination and shared futures. She has led urban planning and data projects for organizations such as the World Bank, bridging civic practice and creative experimentation. Her data visualization works have been presented at DataXDesign and NYCxDesign, revealing the poetic potential of data to make the invisible visible.