Matter, Magic and You
The Quantum Towers is a vibrant, large-scale interactive sculpture of the Periodic Table of Elements, designed by artist Sheefali Asija in collaboration with Dame Clare Grey. Laid out as an architectural cityscape, it transforms elemental science into a landscape children and adults can walk through, climb on, and explore.
A City of Elements
Bold colours, striking forms, towers, and steps represent elemental groups, periods, and families-embedding hidden codes, repeating patterns, and layers of visual storytelling. It’s an invitation into the deep logic of the universe, made tangible, playful, and alive with meaning.
Children as Superheroes
Children are born superheroes-not with capes, but with minds wired for curiosity, hearts drawn to patterns, and the instinct to ask “why.” The Quantum Towers taps into that innate scientific spirit, transforming abstract concepts into lived experience. Here, electrons spin in shells (quantum physics), bond to form elements (chemistry), build cells and proteins (biology), and shape minerals and mountains (geology, philosophy, art).
Embodied Knowledge
By engaging their bodies and imaginations, The Towers give children a sense of ownership over knowledge. They make the big questions-what matter is, how life is built-accessible at the precise moment when children are most open to wonder.
Patterns of the Universe
From stars to our bones, these patterns echo. And in discovering them, children begin to understand their own power to imagine, question, and shape the world to come.
