Angelo Vermeulen: How to go to space, without having to go to space
Angelo Vermeulen: Como ir para o espaço, sem ter de 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,
da NASA no ano passado.
community art all over the planet.
e comunitária por todo o planeta.
been combining both.
tenho combinado as duas coisas.
pouco sobre aquela missão da NASA.
about that NASA mission.
planetary surface analogue
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,
naturalmente.
was actually a food study,
um estudo sobre comida
for astronauts living in deep space --
para astronautas do espaço profundo,
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 os membros da tripulação
productive and happy,
produtiva e satisfeita,
a good deal of autonomy
uma boa dose de autonomia
a lot about leadership,
muito sobre liderança,
about our future in outer space.
no nosso futuro no espaço exterior.
and we will start inhabiting outer space.
começar a povoar o espaço exterior.
or it might take 500 years,
a new art project called Seeker.
artístico chamado Seeker.
challenging communities all over the world
comunidades em todo o mundo
human habitation and survival.
e a sobrevivência humanas.
the world is going wrong
o mundo está a ir por água abaixo
another future somewhere else."
dum outro futuro noutro lugar."
from earthbound constraints
dos constrangimentos terrestres
and it works really well,
e funciona muito bem,
of what we're doing.
do que estamos a fazer.
I'm using a cocreation approach,
utilizo uma abordagem de criação conjunta,
from many artists.
into a group, into a community,
num grupo, numa comunidade,
and build the artwork.
e construímos a peça de arte.
when architects visit what we're doing,
arquitetos visitam as nossas criações,
of a hard time understanding
para entender
sem um plano diretor.
fantastic large-scale scupltures
fantásticas de grande escala
in Belgium and Holland.
na Bélgica e na Holanda.
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.
a arquitetura a evoluir.
presented a few weeks ago in Holland,
há umas semanas na Holanda,
as modules to build a starship.
para construir uma astronave.
em segunda mão,
novamente como uma astronave.
em astronaves,
as a technological challenge.
enquanto 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 uma parte dos alimentos que comem.
neste projeto é que
inside these art and design projects.
missões de isolamento
for multiple days on end,
uma missão de isolamento
you can see an isolation mission
in Ljubljana in Slovenia,
em Liubliana, na Eslovénia,
se fecharam
locked themselves up --
this is a very performative
is currently being developed
está a ser desenvolvida agora
who is also a TED Fellow,
também um TED Fellow,
a magical place.
um lugar mágico.
considered a Mars analogue.
considerado um análogo de Marte.
in certain locations
em certos lugares
to test equipment.
testar o equipamento.
of being connected to space
de estar ligado ao espaço
that's being developed there.
que está a ser montado lá.
location on the planet,
mais seco do planeta.
to build our project,
extremamente interessante
is something we have to explore fully.
algo que temos de explorar plenamente.
what's going to happen.
particular version of the project
versão particular do projeto
with the local population,
à população local,
for a very long time
experts in sustainability,
peritas em sustentabilidade,
no que podemos aprender com eles,
to see what we can learn from them,
into space exploration.
indígena na exploração espacial.
how we look at our future in outer space
para o nosso futuro no espaço exterior
biology, technology and people;
a biologia, a tecnologia e as pessoas;
de criação conjunta;
local traditions
and integrate that into our deep future.
passado e integrá-lo no futuro distante.
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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