Countdown to Lumiere 2017 begins
The clock is ticking down to the UK's biggest light festival which returns to Durham for the fifth time next week. Durham University is proud to be a major partner of which will illuminate the City over four nights from Thursday 16 to Sunday 19 November. Lumiere is produced by Artichoke and commissioned by Durham County Council , with additional support from Arts Council England , Durham University and a raft of partners and sponsors. Durham research Durham's research is behind a number of Lumiere's spectacular installations, some of which are also being hosted by the University. These include: Cosmic Architecture , Lower Mountjoy (University Science Site), a spectacular new son et lumiere by Nina Dunn and John Del' Nero, projected on to architect Daniel Liebeskind's new building for the Ogden Centre for Fundamental Physics. What Matters , two immersive light and glass installations in St Oswald's Church and Courtyard, based on the work of the University's Institute for Computational Cosmology , in collaboration with students at the University of Sunderland and the The National Glass Centre, Sunderland. Cosmoscope, based in the Crown Court Gardens, an awe-inspiring journey from the tiny to the infinite in this exploration of what it is to be human, which is again inspired by the work of Durham's cosmologists, alongside scientists from the University of Oxford and UCL Centre for Advanced Biomedical Imaging.
