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One fragmentat a time.

A journey links a few fragments with a short text that leads from one to the next. It works on a projector, with the arrow keys, and collects nothing.

No sign-in and nothing to fill in: a journey collects nothing from students.

  1. IJourney · 14 steps · about 35 minutes · For everyoneWhat we wereFourteen fragments on what it was to be human: to carry a child, to play, to invite a friend, to lose one's temper, to fall ill, to be cared for, to love, to grieve, and to know that one is only passing through. Five continents, one life.14 fragments · 5 continents
  2. IIJourney · 10 steps · about 30 minutes · For the classroomWriting on every continentBone, clay, stone, cords, paper, metal type, sticks and cables. Ten fragments, five continents: how people made knowledge outlast their voices, and what counts as writing at all.10 fragments · 5 continents
  3. IIIJourney · 6 steps · about 25 minutes · For the classroomMeasuring the skySix fragments on how people counted, predicted and found their place by the sky and the sea, from a notched bone to satellites that place us on Earth and a golden record now in interstellar space.6 fragments · 4 continents
  4. IVJourney · 21 steps · about 55 minutes · For everyoneTurning pointsTwenty-one moments after which the world was no longer the same for anyone: from the first people of our species to the day we saw the whole Earth from far away, and to the machines that now answer in our own words.21 fragments · 4 continents
  5. VJourney · 9 steps · about 25 minutes · For everyoneVoices across the wireHow a current in a stack of metal discs became a network that joins most of humanity: eight fragments from 1800 to the web.9 fragments · 2 continents
  6. VIJourney · 8 steps · about 25 minutes · For everyoneHealing the bodyEight fragments on how people learned to treat wounds, prevent disease, spare pain and replace a failing heart, from an Egyptian papyrus to the end of smallpox.8 fragments · 4 continents
  7. VIIJourney · 8 steps · about 25 minutes · For everyoneThe traces we leaveEight fragments on the marks this civilization leaves behind, some by accident and some on purpose: in the air, in the rock, in orbit and in the permafrost.8 fragments · 4 continents