Angelo Vermeulen: How to go to space, without having to go to space
Angelo Vermeulen: Cómo ir al espacio, sin tener que ir al espacio
Angelo Vermeulen wears many hats, including one as a crew commander for NASA, another as an artist and community organizer. Full bio
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for a NASA Mars simulation last year,
de la tripulación de la NASA
community art all over the planet.
prácticas artísticas multiculturales.
haciendo un poco de las dos.
been combining both.
about that NASA mission.
sobre esa misión de la NASA.
planetary surface analogue
para simular superficies planetarias
that is specifically designed
diseñado específicamente
a largo plazo en pequeñas tripulaciones.
of long-term isolation of small crews.
with a crew of six,
junto a una tripulación de 6 personas,
una experiencia muy interesante.
se centraba en el estudio de los alimentos
was actually a food study,
un nuevo sistema alimentario
for astronauts living in deep space --
viven en el espacio profundo,
de otras investigaciones.
as you can see here,
como se puede ver aquí,
and lots of other stuff to do,
at the end of every day.
al final de cada día.
with just a small group of people
solo un puñado de personas
of psychological challenges:
desafíos psicológicos:
in these circumstances;
en estas circunstancias,
que uno empieza a sentir
you start to sense
que se plantean; etc.
cada miembro de la tripulación
how individual crew members
a una situación similar;
productive and happy,
un equipo productivo y feliz,
a good deal of autonomy
bastante autonomía
a lot about leadership,
mucho sobre el liderazgo,
de la tripulación.
about our future in outer space.
futuro en el espacio exterior.
and we will start inhabiting outer space.
or it might take 500 years,
50 años o 500 años,
artístico llamado Buscador [Seeker].
a new art project called Seeker.
todas las comunidades mundiales
challenging communities all over the world
de naves espaciales
human habitation and survival.
y las posibilidades de habitar humanas.
esto no es un proyecto distópico.
el mundo se acaba!
the world is going wrong
construir otro futuro en otro lugar".
another future somewhere else."
from earthbound constraints
de nuestras limitaciones terrestres
and it works really well,
of what we're doing.
más importante de lo que hacemos.
I'm using a cocreation approach,
uso un enfoque cocreativo
from many artists.
de muchos artistas.
into a group, into a community,
a un grupo, en una comunidad,
and build the artwork.
when architects visit what we're doing,
arquitectos, al ver lo que hacemos,
of a hard time understanding
fantastic large-scale scupltures
fantásticas a gran escala
la hizo, en Bélgica y Holanda,
in Belgium and Holland.
of almost 50 people.
iteración de ese mismo proyecto,
of that same project,
to do the architecture differently.
una arquitectura diferente.
they kept the base of the artwork,
manteniendo solo la base de la obra,
architecture on top of that.
crucial part of the project.
fundamental del proyecto.
evolving architecture.
cambiante, en curso.
presented a few weeks ago in Holland,
hace solo unas semanas en Holanda,
as modules to build a starship.
para construir una nave espacial.
de segunda mano, las abrimos,
en una nave espacial.
en naves espaciales,
as a technological challenge.
un reto tecnológico.
as a combination of three systems:
una combinación de 3 sistemas:
component in the project.
ecológico integrado en el proyecto.
surrounding the astronauts,
with part of the food that they're eating.
con parte de los alimentos que comen.
típica de este proyecto
ocurren dentro de estos proyecto de arte.
inside these art and design projects.
durante varios días
for multiple days on end,
you can see an isolation mission
una misión de aislamiento
in Ljubljana in Slovenia,
de Ljubljana en Eslovenia,
locked themselves up --
6 artistas y diseñadores
this is a very performative
y muy representativa para todos.
is currently being developed
la siguiente versión del proyecto
que también es un Becario TED,
who is also a TED Fellow,
en Chile, un lugar mágico.
a magical place.
considered a Mars analogue.
considerado un análogo de Marte.
in certain locations
to test equipment.
of being connected to space
por estar conectado con el espacio
de estrellas.
that's being developed there.
más árido del planeta,
location on the planet,
to build our project,
para nuestro proyecto,
is something we have to explore fully.
es algo que tenemos que explorar a fondo.
de lo que suceda.
what's going to happen.
particular version of the project
versión particular del proyecto:
la población local, la población nativa.
with the local population,
desde hace mucho tiempo
for a very long time
expertos en sostenibilidad,
experts in sustainability,
qué podemos aprender de ellos,
to see what we can learn from them,
into space exploration.
en la exploración espacial.
how we look at our future in outer space
en el espacio exterior
biology, technology and people;
la tecnología y las personas,
local traditions
and integrate that into our deep future.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Angelo Vermeulen - Space researcher, biologist, artistAngelo Vermeulen wears many hats, including one as a crew commander for NASA, another as an artist and community organizer.
Why you should listen
If you're looking for someone who embodies "multidisciplinary," look no further than TED Senior Fellow Angelo Vermeulen, a space systems researcher, biologist, artist and community organizer. The one common thread in all his work: the desire to understand the relationship between nature and technology, to learn from what's happened in the past in order to build a promising future for us all.
Having received his PhD in Biology from the University of Leuven in Belgium, Angelo nonetheless eschewed a life in the lab to apply a creative lens to everything he does. To date, that includes working on independent projects around the world, including Biomodd, a worldwide series of interactive art installations in which technology and nature coexist. Throughout 2011, he was a member of the European Space Agency Topical Team Arts & Science (ETTAS), while in 2013 he was crew commander of the NASA-funded HI-SEAS Mars mission simulation in Hawaii. For this project, he and a crew of six astronauts lived for four months in a dome, all in the name of studying the effects of longterm isolation among a small crew.
In 2009 he launched SEAD (Space Ecologies Art and Design), a platform for research on the architectures and ethics of space colonization. In 2014, he launched Seeker, a project calling for the public to co-create starship sculptures that evolve over time; this subject is also the focus of a new PhD at Delft University of Technology, for which he's developing "paradigm-shifting concepts for evolvable starships."
In 2012 he was a Michael Kalil Endowment for Smart Design Fellow at Parsons in New York. He holds positions at LUCA School of Visual Arts in Ghent, Belgium, and Die Angewandte in Vienna, Austria.
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