This collaboratory was designed as the first public conversation of the ireland : iceland project, igniting a large-scale collective investigation into cultural identity and a creative response to the crisis/kreppa. This series of symposiums, pop up events, sleepovers and happenings engaged with1000 + Irish and Icelandic people from the fields of arts, culture, politics, society and economics. The Northern Lights Observatory was our maiden voyage. The investigation continues with increasing curiosity