Mission Palax

Mission Palax is a choose-your-own-adventure story that invites users to explore the ethical dimensions of space travel. Can they take on responsibility for a topic which humanity will be confronted with in the upcoming years?

Is it morally acceptable to conquer foreign ecosystems for humans' benefits?

The chance that extraterrestrial life does not exist is almost impossible - considering that there are billions of galaxies in the universe.

But what would humanity do if we’d have the proof that living organisms inhabit another planet?
Humanity’s hunger for exploration and expansion seems insatiable - but is it ethically acceptable to intervene with the ecosystem of an exoplanet?

Mission Palax is a project by Theresa Binder, Martin Klaffensteiner, Moritz Berchtold, Anna Sudy (June 2021)
at Design Investigations / University of Applied Arts Vienna

Actors:
Sigma - Thea Beck
Rho - Philipp Auer
Tau - Finn Mühl

special thanks to NAVAS- Kostüm & Styling Department & Hygienezentrum Dr. Sturm GmbH