Who Owns the Sky? is a project that explores how the sky - something we often imagine as open, shared, and borderless - is actually highly regulated and divided. Airspace looks empty, but it contains laws, restrictions, military routes, drone zones, and invisible boundaries that shift depending on who has power.

One moment airspace protects citizens, but the next moment it becomes a tool of control. If the sky can be owned, restricted, priced, or weaponized, what does it mean to have a “rights” to the sky? And who actually has these rights?

This project begins with the historical case “United States v. Causby”, the moment when the old idea “who owns the soil owns the heavens” was legally broken. It marks the shift from sky-as-nature to sky-as-territory. This case illustrates how rights can be change and how what is considered a “right” is not always inherently right. Building from this, this project aim to visualises these “rights” — how contemporary airspace is divided and controlled.