January 2023
Evolving human space culture – reflections on humanity’s cultural potential in space
... potential thrown in and with conscientious care and consideration for the space environment around us. Evolving space culture Our new unique human environments in space will separate us almost completely from attachment to earthbound norms, becoming...
February 2019
Chaos and creation – cultural directions for the space industry
... Mark (which spans the duration of the course), explores the concept of an individual’s impact on collective contributions to human culture. It also highlights the role that intention and intuition play in its development. The premise is to work from...
October 2024
Space industry trajectory under the spotlight of cultural anthropology
...all? Is it worth it to send humans to space? What cultural outcomes will result from continued human space exploration and the colonisation ...if we revisited the ways of the ancient seafaring cultures and the desert nomads? Drawing inspiration not only...
August 2016
Are the days of innovation in global space over - or just beginning?
...as inspiration; while Star-Trek, Star Wars and other Hollywood sci-fi franchises owe outer space an enormous cultural debt. Innovation and inspiration promote technological advance and, in terms of military interventions, are precipitated by war. The...
May 2022
Multinational training for interplanetary spaceflight crews
...not guarantee successful intercultural interaction and can allow ethnic stereotypes, biases and overestimation of similarity among cultures. Crew simulation training for a fire event in an ISS module. Experience proves that ISS crew member candidates...
March 2016
Multi-planet Civilizations in Popular Culture
... universe reminds us that a civilization can defiantly go on, provided it has both the technology and the will to do so. Alderaan culture and its people continued because when their home planet was destroyed, they were elsewhere. In light...
