Angelo Vermeulen: How to go to space, without having to go to space
Angelo Vermeulen: Como ir para o espaço, sem ter que ir para o espaço
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,
no ano passado,
da NASA à Marte,
community art all over the planet.
comunitária por todo o planeta.
combinado as duas funções.
been combining both.
sobre a missão da NASA.
about that NASA mission.
planetary surface analogue
de um planeta financiada pela NASA,
that is specifically designed
projetado especificamente
of long-term isolation of small crews.
de longo prazo de tripulações pequenas.
with a crew of six,
com uma tripulação de seis pessoas,
é claro.
was actually a food study,
for astronauts living in deep space --
para astronautas no espaço profundo,
outras investigações.
as you can see here,
como podem ver aqui,
and lots of other stuff to do,
e muitas outras coisas,
at the end of every day.
with just a small group of people
um pequeno grupo de pessoas
durante muito tempo.
of psychological challenges:
in these circumstances;
nestas circunstâncias;
you start to sense
que começamos a sentir
nestas circunstâncias;
how individual crew members
como cada tripulante
productive and happy,
produtiva e feliz,
a good deal of autonomy
bastante autonomia
a lot about leadership,
muito sobre liderança,
about our future in outer space.
no nosso futuro no espaço.
and we will start inhabiting outer space.
e começar a habitá-lo.
or it might take 500 years,
a new art project called Seeker.
artístico chamado Seeker.
comunidades em todo o mundo
challenging communities all over the world
de naves espaciais,
human habitation and survival.
e sobrevivência humanas.
the world is going wrong
o mundo está acabando
another future somewhere else."
precisamos de outro futuro em outro lugar.
convidando pessoas
from earthbound constraints
restrições terrestres
and it works really well,
e funciona muito bem,
of what we're doing.
do que estamos fazendo.
I'm using a cocreation approach,
uma abordagem de criação conjunta,
from many artists.
de muitos artistas.
into a group, into a community,
básica em um grupo, ou comunidade,
and build the artwork.
e construímos a obra de arte.
arquitetos veem o que estamos fazendo
when architects visit what we're doing,
of a hard time understanding
fantastic large-scale scupltures
fantásticas de grande escala
na Bélgica e na Holanda.
in Belgium and Holland.
of almost 50 people.
de quase 50 pessoas.
of that same project,
do mesmo projeto,
to do the architecture differently.
a arquitetura de modo diferente."
they kept the base of the artwork,
mantiveram a base da obra,
architecture on top of that.
crucial part of the project.
evolving architecture.
arquitetura que evolui.
presented a few weeks ago in Holland,
há poucas semanas na Holanda,
as modules to build a starship.
para construir uma nave.
de segunda mão,
novamente como uma nave.
sobre naves espaciais,
as a technological challenge.
um desafio tecnológico.
as a combination of three systems:
uma combinação de três sistemas:
component in the project.
ecológico forte no projeto.
surrounding the astronauts,
with part of the food that they're eating.
com parte da comida que estão comendo.
deste projeto é que
inside these art and design projects.
missões de isolamento
durante dias seguidos
for multiple days on end,
uma missão de isolamento
you can see an isolation mission
in Ljubljana in Slovenia,
em Liubliana, na Eslovênia,
se trancafiaram.
locked themselves up --
this is a very performative
está sendo atualmente desenvolvida
is currently being developed
who is also a TED Fellow,
também um Bolsista Ted,
a magical place.
um lugar mágico.
considered a Mars analogue.
um análogo a Marte.
in certain locations
em certos lugares
to test equipment.
para testar equipamentos.
of being connected to space
de estar ligado ao espaço
that's being developed there.
que está sendo montado lá.
location on the planet,
mais seco do planeta,
to build our project,
a realização do nosso projeto
is something we have to explore fully.
algo que temos de explorar plenamente.
para ver o que vai acontecer.
what's going to happen.
particular version of the project
versão particular do projeto
à população local,
with the local population,
for a very long time
por muito tempo
experts em sustentabilidade,
experts in sustainability,
podemos aprender com elas.
to see what we can learn from them,
into space exploration.
indígena na exploração espacial.
how we look at our future in outer space
vemos nosso futuro no espaço
biology, technology and people;
a biologia, a tecnologia e as pessoas;
criação conjunta;
local traditions
and integrate that into our deep future.
passado e integrar isso ao nosso 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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