Migration is an act of deterritorialisation. Unrooted, we inhabit the in-between: between geographies, between languages. At this threshold exists URANUS: a place within a non-place. A dimension without borders, of planetary nationality. A universal realm.​​

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Before it was recognised as a planet, Uranus was thought to be a star until 1781, when William Herschel revealed its true nature. He later moved to Slough, where he spent the last thirty-six years of his life and built a 40-foot telescope, the largest in the world at the time.

 

This act of looking again becomes the project’s central gesture: to create a new narrative about Slough —a town repeatedly misrecognised from the outside and reduced by stigma from Betjeman’s 1937 poem to The Office— and reveal the beauty, complexity and power of the community. Because what is a town if not the people who inhabit it?