Two years ago, participating in the TEN-T conference, Aerocene Community together with initiator and artist Tomás Saraceno, wanted to share the goals of Aerocene, understanding how we could make an “aerosolar infrastructure” really possible, for the sake of the the Earth, and all its co-habiting elements and beings.
During the conference days, the Community was rising together with the sun, to attempt the first Tethered Human Solar Flight in Slovenia. The solar balloon “D-O AEC” previously made history on November 8 2015, lifting up 7 passengers without any propane in White Sands, New Mexico, achieving two world records of the first and longest manned, tethered aerosolar flight.
Today, during the global lockdown, just after the achievements of Fly with Aerocene Pacha mission, it is crucial to reflect on how real the need and the possibility to change how we move is. After achieving something never been done before in the human history of this planet and after 20 years of research together with Studio Tomás Saraceno, Aerocene Community members, friends and institutions all over the world, the Aerocene epoch is finally in becoming. As Fly with Aerocene Pacha set different world records, being the first ever Free Human Flight achieved only with the heat of the sun and no trace of rare gases or fossil fuels, the Tethered Human Flight in Ljubljana marked the beginning of a work within invisible infrastructures that will need to change too, and soon, for a renewed era of sustainable mobility. Free from borders, free from fossil fuels.