Your planetary assembly forms an attractive meeting place in Fallaize Park, in Oxford North, UK. The artwork acts as a public forum or agora, where people may gather, talk, or spend time and share space together. Elevated some four metres above the ground on tripodal stands, eight glass polyhedra are distributed about the park, some along the paths and others rising up from the greenery. Circular benches beneath each polyhedron invite visitors to sit and spend time there, together or alone. Although the structures appear to be loosely scattered about the meadows, there is a subtle regularity to their positioning, an order that is felt if not easily deduced. The arrangement was in fact inspired by scientific models of the solar system, albeit in an abstract or schematic way. The colours of the glass polyhedra derive from the major tones found in telescopic images of the planets. When they are illuminated, the forms function as points of orientation to guide visitors through the park. In addition to this planetary reference, the polyhedra may also be read as elements or molecules or, indeed, at face value as geometric forms. All these associations point more generally to science and the pursuit of knowledge – the aims of the surrounding laboratories and offices of Oxford North.