Angelo Vermeulen: How to go to space, without having to go to space
Angelo Vermeulen: Come andare nello spazio senza andarci per davvero
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,
una simulazione su Marte della NASA,
community art all over the planet.
multiculturali d'arte in tutto il mondo.
been combining both.
a mescolare queste due discipline.
about that NASA mission.
della missione della NASA.
planetary surface analogue
del pianeta creata dalla NASA
that is specifically designed
è progettato specificamente
of long-term isolation of small crews.
dell'isolamento
a lungo termine.
with a crew of six,
con un gruppo di sei persone.
was actually a food study,
riguardava il cibo,
for astronauts living in deep space --
di alimentazione per gli astronauti,
as you can see here,
come potete vedere qui,
and lots of other stuff to do,
e molte altre cose da fare,
at the end of every day.
a fine giornata.
with just a small group of people
con un gruppo ristretto di persone
of psychological challenges:
in these circumstances;
in circostanze simili,
you start to sense
del tempo che si prova
how individual crew members
membri di un gruppo
productive and happy,
produttivo e felice.
a good deal of autonomy
un po' di autonomia
a lot about leadership,
anche molto sulla leadership,
about our future in outer space.
al nostro futuro nello spazio.
and we will start inhabiting outer space.
e finiremo per abitarlo.
or it might take 500 years,
o magari 500,
a new art project called Seeker.
che si chiama Seeker.
challenging communities all over the world
le comunità di tutto il mondo
di navicelle spaziali
human habitation and survival.
il modo di vivere dell'uomo.
the world is going wrong
sta andando a rotoli
another future somewhere else."
per avere un futuro.
from earthbound constraints
and it works really well,
e funziona molto bene,
of what we're doing.
di quel che facciamo.
I'm using a cocreation approach,
uso un approccio co-creazionale,
from many artists.
da molti artisti.
into a group, into a community,
ad un gruppo, ad una comunità,
and build the artwork.
e progettiamo l'opera d'arte.
when architects visit what we're doing,
vengono a vedere cosa facciamo,
of a hard time understanding
fantastic large-scale scupltures
queste sculture a larga scala
in Belgium and Holland.
in Belgio e in Olanda.
of almost 50 people.
di oltre 50 persone.
of that same project,
dello stesso progetto,
to do the architecture differently.
un'architettura diversa.
they kept the base of the artwork,
mantenendo la base dell'opera,
architecture on top of that.
crucial part of the project.
del nostro progetto.
evolving architecture.
un'architettura che si evolve.
presented a few weeks ago in Holland,
che è appena stata presentata in Olanda,
as modules to build a starship.
per costruire la navicella spaziale.
as a technological challenge.
come una sfida tecnologica.
as a combination of three systems:
una combinazione di tre sistemi:
component in the project.
una forte componente ecologica.
surrounding the astronauts,
with part of the food that they're eating.
con il cibo che stanno mangiando.
inside these art and design projects.
all'interno dei nostri progetti artistici.
for multiple days on end,
per un certo numero di giorni
you can see an isolation mission
è una missione di isolamento
in Ljubljana in Slovenia,
di Ljubljana, in Slovenia,
locked themselves up --
si sono chiusi dentro.
this is a very performative
è stata un'esperienza forte
is currently being developed
la stiamo sviluppando
who is also a TED Fellow,
anche lui è un TED Fellow,
a magical place.
un luogo magico.
considered a Mars analogue.
analogo a Marte.
in certain locations
to test equipment.
per testare l'equipaggiamento.
of being connected to space
that's being developed there.
location on the planet,
to build our project,
per lo sviluppo del nostro progetto,
is something we have to explore fully.
appieno la sostenibilità.
what's going to happen.
di vedere cosa accadrà.
particular version of the project
di questa particolare versione del progetto
with the local population,
con la popolazione locale,
for a very long time
da moltissimo tempo
experts in sustainability,
degli esperti di sostenibilità,
to see what we can learn from them,
cosa possiamo imparare da loro,
into space exploration.
nell'esplorazione dello spazio.
how we look at our future in outer space
vediamo il nostro futuro nello spazio
biology, technology and people;
tecnologia e persone,
local traditions
le tradizioni locali,
and integrate that into our deep future.
e integrarlo nel nostro futuro.
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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