About this Event
‘The moon is a cold, dead witness’ - Friedrich Nietzsche
‘The moon is a loyal friend to the lonely’ - Carl Sandburg
You know the feeling: you pause at night, look up, and the moon seems to look back. For centuries we’ve done this - we project, desire, become unsettled by this mysterious body that appears and disappears in phases.
Poets see in it melancholy, love, loss. Myths turn it into goddess or seductress, always just out of reach. And philosophers? They ask a stranger question: not what the moon is, but why it holds so much meaning at all - how a cold, distant object becomes an inner screen for our fears and desires.
Then there is lunacy, or moon-madness: the old idea that its light can tilt the mind, pulling us beyond reason and control. In courtly love traditions, this becomes refined- an elegant madness of surrender.
During Lunatic we follow the moon not to understand it, but to see what it awakens in us. We observe it through telescopes on the rooftop of Aerospace Engineering, hear stories from astronomers, poets, and thinkers, and share our own lunar tales. Limited seats available.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
TU Delft Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, 1 Kluyverweg, Delft, Netherlands
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