One Earth Year Later
Nore Kerkhofs
Belgium
About
Nore Kerkhofs is a Belgian digital designer and artist whose work explores the relationship between science, perception, and visual representation. Working across interactive media, installation, web-based systems, and speculative interfaces, her practice investigates how complex scientific concepts—particularly those related to astronomy, scale, and cosmology—are translated into human experience.
Through research-driven design, Nore examines the gaps between scientific accuracy and public intuition, often focusing on the ways visual systems shape understanding. Her projects combine data, interaction, storytelling, and physical scenography to create immersive environments that invite audiences to experience concepts such as distance, orbital logic, and planetary scale firsthand.
Project
One Earth Year Later is an interactive serious game and research project that explores how people understand astronomical scale, distance, and orbital motion. Framed as a Soviet-inspired space mission narrated by Belka and Strelka, the first dogs to survive space travel, players travel through a series of interactive challenges that confront common misconceptions about the solar system through embodied interaction rather than passive observation.