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We are a ‘DAO’ group aiming to establish a global platform that deals with the continuity of human characteristics in the face of futuristic humanity.
Our goal is to create three global public projects that demonstrate the idea of continuity and offers active actions to realize it.
Continuity to the human story.
Continuity to emotions related to interpersonal communication.
Continuity to the senses of the 100% organic human body.
A snapshot of humanity made from household dust samples.
Our vision
To engage families from all over the world in a unique shared testimony experience that fosters a sense of shared humanity.
Our mission
To leave a tangible record in material evidence of everyday life on Earth for future generations or extraterrestrial consciousnesses to find.
Our practice
Each house dust sample is a scene.
About who we were, what we ate, where we lived, and who we loved.
Every day, we go about our lives, moving from room to room, cooking meals, spending time with loved ones, and leaving behind traces of ourselves in the form of Dust in our homes.
Fibers from our clothes, hair and nail fragments, skin cells, laundry and perfume odor molecules, pet dander, pollen, fungi, minerals, manufactured pollution...
The combination of these elements can be as unique as a fingerprint.
We invite people to transform their household dust into a unique personal story.
“In 100 years from now, the archives may reach futuristic deciphering technologies that will recreate these authentic and everyday moments, including tastes, smells, and textures, into a tangible history.”
Ya’el Shatz Ben Shimol - Founder
Ecological changes and technological innovations are changing the way we live.
If humanity and Earth were to dramatically change
"I cut my dog's hair into my dust sample and identified it by the cut in the scanning electron microscope.”
The Dust Project is a STEAM learning program for all ages
Students collect dust samples from their homes and study them as a means of documenting everyday life and the surrounding environment.
Samples from a wide range of homes are sealed in a growing civic archive for future deciphering.
An open-ended educational experience that can be expanded and integrated into additional educational frameworks.
An advanced digital platform will allow you to register in accordance with your mail address and receive a household dust collection kit.
1. Open the envelope.
2. Collect with a sticker from several places in the house.
3. Seal the sticker. It will not be open again.
1. Send back to the project and See your place in the ark.
2. Become a part of the dust community.
Keep part of the sample as a testimony and a memento that remains on earth.
In the home sampling kit, three samples are collected simultaneously. The first sample remains in a personal capsule at the participant’s home.
It is designed to be passed from generation to generation as a unique family heirloom and one-of-a-kind data source for future comparison.
The second sample is stored in a lunar time capsule to be sent alongside projects from around the world in cooperation with LifeShip.
Samples collected for the archives are sealed by participants in their homes. They are not analyzed, interpreted, or used in any way in the present.
The third sample is archived in an evolving civic archive at the 'MOM' cooperation with the Memory Of Mankind
This archive will offer multiple ways to engage with the project and the participants' stories.
A more accessible and centralized data source for future comparison.
The concept of HOME has long been embedded in human behavior; it can be seen as the foundation upon which every other aspect of human life is built.
House Dust samples provide a detailed snapshot of residents, lifestyle, and environment within this rooted context.
Skin cells, tiny hairs, and nails found in our home are a testimony to the home's residents and visitors.
Crumbs from the food we eat tell a story about our culinary choices.
The fabric from our clothes tells a story of textile and fashion.
Insects, stamens, and chemicals that enter our house from the window tell about the place in which we choose to live.
Space dust uncovers our place in the galaxy.
DUST is a concept rich in cultural and social myths throughout human history.
HOME is embedded into the physicality of the HOUSE; its relation to geo-location enables it to be the basic indexing unit for the archives.
A single sample tells the story of people.
Many samples tell the story of a city.
As they are on the earth's map, samples from countries and continents tell a story about humanity.
Ecological changes significantly affect the environment.
Rapid technological development is changing our lifestyles.
A house dust bank can provide authentic evidence of human activity and the environment at the time it was collected.
In material evidence!
The possibilities for future dust finders and future deciphering technologies are limitless and spark the imagination.
One day, the Ark may reach futuristic deciphering technologies that will recreate moments including smells, tastes, and textures.
If humanity or the earth dramatically changes, we may be leaving behind not only names and pictures..
But also, a tangible experience from our life story
Sending a cosmic dust particle into space as an ark carrying dust samples can be like passing the stories word of mouth.
Syllabi tailored to different age groups and subjects will invite you to be a part of a collective experience.
An advanced digital platform will allow you to register in accordance with your mail address and receive a household dust collection kit.
1. Open the envelope.
2. Collect with a sticker from several places in the house.
3. Seal the sticker. It will not be open again.
1. Send back to the project and See your place in the Index.
2. Become a part of the dust community.
Keep part of the sample as a testimony and a memento that remains at your home.
Multi-lingual and experiential STEAM learning program for all ages.
Pre-planned STEAM curicoloms for as diverse a presentation as possible.
Envelope-sized kits containing coded dust collection stickers.
An evolving civic archive and lunar time capsule.
Collaborations with additional projects that preserve information about humanity beyond Earth.
A chosen destination for the ark to be preserved for future generations or other consciousnesses to find.
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