Angelo Vermeulen: How to go to space, without having to go to space
Angelo Vermeulen: Hur man åker till rymden utan att åka till rymden
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,
har jag varit befälhavare
Mars-simulationer förra året,
community art all over the planet.
över hela världen.
börjat att kombinera dessa båda.
been combining both.
att prata lite om NASA-uppdraget.
about that NASA mission.
simulering av ytan på Mars
planetary surface analogue
that is specifically designed
som är speciellt utformat
av långvarig isolering
of long-term isolation of small crews.
med en besättning på sex personer,
with a crew of six,
was actually a food study,
för astronauter som bor i rymden -
for astronauts living in deep space --
en hel del annan forskning.
som ni kan se här,
as you can see here,
och en del andra saker,
and lots of other stuff to do,
vid slutet av varje dag.
at the end of every day.
att bo med en så liten grupp
with just a small group of people
psykologiska utmaningar:
of psychological challenges:
under sådana omständigheter;
in these circumstances;
man börjar känna av
you start to sense
enskilda besättningsmedlemmar
how individual crew members
productive and happy,
både produktiv och nöjd,
tillräckligt med självständighet
a good deal of autonomy
a lot about leadership,
en massa om ledarskap,
about our future in outer space.
på vår framtid i rymden.
and we will start inhabiting outer space.
och vi kommer att börja bosätta oss där.
or it might take 500 years,
a new art project called Seeker.
som jag kallar Seeker.
över hela världen
challenging communities all over the world
av boende och överlevnad.
human habitation and survival.
the world is going wrong
"Herregud, världen går åt skogen
en ny framtid någon annanstans."
another future somewhere else."
from earthbound constraints
från jordbundna begränsningar
framtiden på ett nytt sätt.
and it works really well,
och det funkar jättebra,
of what we're doing.
I'm using a cocreation approach,
en medskapandeprocess,
från många konstnärer.
from many artists.
into a group, into a community,
i en grupp, ett samhälle,
and build the artwork.
when architects visit what we're doing,
och kollar på vad vi gör,
of a hard time understanding
storskaliga skulpturer
fantastic large-scale scupltures
byggdes i Belgien och Holland.
in Belgium and Holland.
of almost 50 people.
på nästan 50 personer.
of that same project,
to do the architecture differently.
att arbeta utifrån en ny arkitektur.
och lämnade bara grunden i konstverket,
they kept the base of the artwork,
på den gamla grunden.
architecture on top of that.
crucial part of the project.
utvecklande arkitektur.
evolving architecture.
presented a few weeks ago in Holland,
i Holland för ett par veckor sen,
as modules to build a starship.
som moduler för att bygga rymdskeppet.
till ett rymdskepp.
as a technological challenge.
som en teknisk utmaning.
as a combination of three systems:
av tre olika system:
component in the project.
en tydlig ekologisk del i projektet.
surrounding the astronauts,
with part of the food that they're eating.
med en del av maten de äter.
inside these art and design projects.
inom dessa konstprojekt.
for multiple days on end,
you can see an isolation mission
ett isoleringsuppdrag
i Ljubljana, Slovenien,
in Ljubljana in Slovenia,
stängde in sig -
locked themselves up --
this is a very performative
en väldigt performativ
projektets nästa version
is currently being developed
who is also a TED Fellow,
som också är TED Fellow,
a magical place.
considered a Mars analogue.
en motsvarighet till Mars.
på vissa ställen
in certain locations
to test equipment.
till att testa utrustning.
av kopplingar till rymden
of being connected to space
that's being developed there.
location on the planet,
att bygga vårt projekt på,
to build our project,
is something we have to explore fully.
tänka rätt så mycket på hållbarhet.
vad som kommer att ske.
what's going to happen.
i denna version av projektet
particular version of the project
with the local population,
for a very long time
väldigt länge,
experts in sustainability,
to see what we can learn from them,
vad de kan lära oss,
att använda i utforskandet av rymden.
into space exploration.
how we look at our future in outer space
framtiden i yttre rymden
biology, technology and people;
biologi, teknologi och människor;
local traditions
och utforska lokala traditioner,
av det förflutna,
and integrate that into our deep future.
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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