Angelo Vermeulen: How to go to space, without having to go to space
Angelo Vermeulen: Comment aller dans l'espace tout en restant sur terre
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,
Mars de la NASA l'année dernière.
community art all over the planet.
multiculturelle à travers le monde.
been combining both.
about that NASA mission.
planetary surface analogue
l'analogue d'une surface planétaire
à Hawaï,
that is specifically designed
conçu specialement
of long-term isolation of small crews.
prolongé sur de petites équipes.
with a crew of six,
4 mois avec une équipe de 6 personnes.
bien sûr.
was actually a food study,
portait sur la nutrition,
for astronauts living in deep space --
aux astronautes vivants dans l'espace --
d'autres recherches.
as you can see here,
comme celles-ci.
de combinaisons spatiales.
and lots of other stuff to do,
des tâches ménagères et en plus
at the end of every day.
à remplir tous les soirs.
with just a small group of people
avec juste quelques personnes
of psychological challenges:
in these circumstances;
de l'équipe dans ces conditions,
you start to sense
distortion du temps qu'on ressent
how individual crew members
dont chaque membre de l'équipage
une telle situation ;
productive and happy,
reste productif et heureux,
a good deal of autonomy
une bonne dose d'indépendance
ces résultats,
a lot about leadership,
comment devenir un leader
le capitaine d'équipage.
about our future in outer space.
sérieusement à notre futur dans l'espace.
and we will start inhabiting outer space.
et on commencera à y habiter.
or it might take 500 years,
a new art project called Seeker.
à un projet artistique nommé "Seeker".
challenging communities all over the world
communautés mondiales
vaisseaux interstellaires
human habitation and survival.
d'habitat et de survie.
the world is going wrong
"Mon Dieu, rien de va plus
another future somewhere else."
et trouver un futur ailleurs."
from earthbound constraints
aux contraintes terrestres,
and it works really well,
et ça marche très bien,
of what we're doing.
importante de notre entreprise.
I'm using a cocreation approach,
une approche "co-créatrice",
from many artists.
into a group, into a community,
de base à un groupe, à une communauté,
faire mûrir l'idée
and build the artwork.
construisons l'objet d'art.
à des termites en fait.
when architects visit what we're doing,
visitent nos créations,
of a hard time understanding
de mal à comprendre
sans avoir de schéma.
fantastic large-scale scupltures
ces immenses sculptures
in Belgium and Holland.
en Belgique et en Hollande.
of almost 50 people.
une équipe de presque 50 personnes.
of that same project,
du même projet,
to do the architecture differently.
construire l'architecture différement.
they kept the base of the artwork,
ils ont gardé les bases de l’œuvre
architecture on top of that.
qui plus est, biomorphique.
crucial part of the project.
crucial du projet.
evolving architecture.
ainsi que son architecture.
presented a few weeks ago in Holland,
en Hollande il y a quelques semaines.
as modules to build a starship.
modules de vaisseau spatial.
ces vaisseaux spatiaux,
as a technological challenge.
aux défis technniques.
as a combination of three systems:
la combinaison de trois systèmes :
component in the project.
à l'écologie dans le projet.
aquaponiques
surrounding the astronauts,
with part of the food that they're eating.
contact avec leur source alimentaire.
dans ce projet :
inside these art and design projects.
à l'intérieur de nos créations.
for multiple days on end,
pour plusieurs jours d'affilée
you can see an isolation mission
une mission d'isolement
in Ljubljana in Slovenia,
de Ljubljanan, en Slovénie,
locked themselves up --
se sont enfermés --
à l'intérieur du musée.
this is a very performative
une expérience très instructive
is currently being developed
est en train d'être développée
who is also a TED Fellow,
qui est aussi membre de TED,
a magical place.
un endroit magique.
considered a Mars analogue.
comme similaire à Mars.
in certain locations
dans certaines parties
to test equipment.
pour tester du matériel.
of being connected to space
été connecté à l'espace
that's being developed there.
qui est développé là-bas.
location on the planet,
le plus sec de la planète,
to build our project,
d'y construire notre projet,
is something we have to explore fully.
doit être explorée à fond.
what's going to happen.
de voir ce qui va se passer.
particular version of the project
à cette version du projet,
with the local population,
avec la population locale,
for a very long time
depuis très longtemps
experts in sustainability,
comme des experts de la durabilité,
to see what we can learn from them,
qu'on peut apprendre d'eux,
into space exploration.
apporter à l'exploration de l'espace.
how we look at our future in outer space
dont on voit notre futur dans l'espace
biology, technology and people;
la technologie et l'être humain,
local traditions
les traditions locales
and integrate that into our deep future.
peut être intégré à notre futur.
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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