ABSTRACT
Accompanying this short text, then, are visual fragments – documentary evidence of a research project whose focus was initially based on the naively simple premise of identifying extraordinary scientific sites that might be, for a variety of reasons, inaccessible to the public. Our motivation was to openly document the huge science infrastructure that the UK public pays for: large-scale research centres, specialist science labs and testing facilities, radio observatories, proving grounds and subterranean spaces of various kinds. Many of the sites which make up this network are often considered as shining beacons of knowledge; while their presence is carefully mediated, the information available to the public did not necessarily throw any light on their unique situations. Many maintained their enclosures not simply through walls, barriers and perimeters, or careful landscaping, but through disinformation at different levels that allowed them to simply hide in plain sight.
