WHERE Across The City
WHEN Friday 19:00-19:30
Future Signals is a morse code conversation between the University and the city of Canterbury, using beams of light from signal lamps to send messages. The project has been created in collaboration with Dr Chao Wang, from the School of Engineering and Digital Arts.
In celebration of the University’s 50th anniversary, Future Signals will look to the next 50 years, with public figures transmitting a short hope, wish or aspiration for the next half century – their projections for the future in just 5 words projected through morse code.
Everyone in Canterbury is invited to respond to the message by turning their lights on and off manually three times, to signal “R” (in morse code, ‘received as transmitted’). The city’s response will be led by a signal lamp at Canterbury Cathedral. Everyone in Canterbury can join in – by flicking bedside lamps on and off, pointing torches pointing out of windows, and shining phones at the sky.
At the same time as the morse code messages flash across the dark sky, we will be transmitting the messages via radio. Tune in at 7pm to CSRfm on csrfm.com / 97.4fm to hear the messages.
Future Signals closes with everyone flashing their lights six times in unison to signal “SK” (in morse code, ‘end of transmission’).
With thanks for support to Questions of Space: a Festival of Ideas, 20-22 June 2016. In a new collaboration in response to the topic of space (architectural space, private space, sacred space, public space, acoustic space, communal space) University of Kent humanities researchers will discover and open up to the public the secret spaces of Canterbury Cathedral, guided by those who inhabit this extraordinary place as clergy, craftspeople, conservators, guides and educators.