Visit Mequation - a collaboration between Dutch ecological artist Thijs Biersteker (Woven Studio) and astrophysicist Yamila Miguel of Leiden University. Together, they've turned one of science's most staggering ideas into something you can walk into and feel.
What are the odds that you exist? Not as a philosophical question — as a calculation. A real one, built from astrophysics, cosmic timelines, and the precise confluence of conditions that had to hold for you to be standing in this room, right now.
The installation computes the specific probability of your existence at this exact moment in time — drawing on scientific data to make the abstract visceral, and the cosmic personal. It asks what it actually means to be here: the chain of events, choices, and coincidences across billions of years that converged in you. And then it asks what you do with that.
MEQUATION is part of NL House — where Dutch ambition meets a global audience on June 3 at SXSW London. For the full overview of sessions and experiences, visit NL House on Luma. (Non-badge holders can apply for entry by signing up via the Luma website)