Cosmograms

Caille and his colleagues frame forgotten solar technologies as “cosmograms”: objects which describe the world as it could have been, and could yet become. #
Our model and the solar motor are much more than museum objects: they are “cosmograms.” That is to say, they are objects which propose a reunification of the world, or more exactly a re-description of the world as it could be, by evoking many relations which they “contain,” but which far exceed them in space and time
[https://www.energyhumanities.ca/news/feature-solar-energy-at-the-museum-of-the-future] See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmogram

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This word scored a seven on a three part scale of allusiveness, political oomph and cultural capital (min score 1, max score 3 for each part of the scale)