Angelo Vermeulen: How to go to space, without having to go to space
Angelo Vermeulen: Jak znaleźć się w kosmosie, bez lotu w kosmos
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,
symulacji misji NASA na Marsie.
community art all over the planet.
wspólnotę artystyczną na świecie.
been combining both.
about that NASA mission.
planetary surface analogue
Mauna Loa na Hawajach.
that is specifically designed
of long-term isolation of small crews.
izolacji niewielkiej załogi.
with a crew of six,
4 miesiące z 6-osobową załogą.
was actually a food study,
tych badań było jedzenie.
astronautów w kosmosie
for astronauts living in deep space --
as you can see here,
and lots of other stuff to do,
at the end of every day.
with just a small group of people
z niewielką grupą ludzi,
of psychological challenges:
in these circumstances;
you start to sense
how individual crew members
productive and happy,
i utrzymywać dobry nastrój.
a good deal of autonomy
załodze na niezależność.
a lot about leadership,
też sporo o byciu liderem.
about our future in outer space.
nad naszą przyszłością w kosmosie.
and we will start inhabiting outer space.
i zaczniemy zasiedlać inne światy.
or it might take 500 years,
w końcu do tego dojdzie.
a new art project called Seeker.
projekt artystyczny - Seeker.
challenging communities all over the world
wspólnot na całym świecie
human habitation and survival.
do życia i przetrwania.
the world is going wrong
another future somewhere else."
from earthbound constraints
od ziemskiej codzienności.
and it works really well,
of what we're doing.
I'm using a cocreation approach,
w drodze współtworzenia.
from many artists.
into a group, into a community,
and build the artwork.
when architects visit what we're doing,
oglądający naszą pracę
of a hard time understanding
fantastic large-scale scupltures
jak ogromne, fantastyczne rzeźby,
in Belgium and Holland.
wykonano w Belgii i Holandii.
of almost 50 people.
of that same project,
to do the architecture differently.
they kept the base of the artwork,
ale zatrzymali podstawę kompozycji.
architecture on top of that.
crucial part of the project.
evolving architecture.
artystyczny i architektoniczny.
presented a few weeks ago in Holland,
kilka tygodni temu w Holandii.
as modules to build a starship.
jako podstawowy moduł statku.
as a technological challenge.
wyzwania technologicznego.
as a combination of three systems:
component in the project.
surrounding the astronauts,
with part of the food that they're eating.
w kontakcie z żywnością.
inside these art and design projects.
izolacyjne w środku tych projektów.
for multiple days on end,
na kilka dni pod koniec projektu
you can see an isolation mission
in Ljubljana in Slovenia,
w Lublanie, w Słowenii,
locked themselves up --
i projektantów zamknęło się,
this is a very performative
is currently being developed
tego projektu pracuję teraz
who is also a TED Fellow,
który jest też stypendystą TED.
a magical place.
na pustyni Atacama w Chile.
considered a Mars analogue.
in certain locations
to test equipment.
of being connected to space
powiązań z kosmosem
that's being developed there.
location on the planet,
suche miejsce na ziemi,
to build our project,
staje się niezykle interesujący
is something we have to explore fully.
jest tu czymś realnym.
what's going to happen.
particular version of the project
with the local population,
for a very long time
experts in sustainability,
w samowystarczalności.
to see what we can learn from them,
czego można się od nich nauczyć.
into space exploration.
tubylców w badanie kosmosu.
how we look at our future in outer space
naszą przyszłość w kosmosie
biology, technology and people;
biologii, techniki i ludzi,
local traditions
and integrate that into our deep future.
nauczyć się z przeszłości
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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