Angelo Vermeulen: How to go to space, without having to go to space
آنجيلو فيرمولين: كيف نذهب للفضاء من دون أن يتوجب علينا الذهاب للفضاء؟
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,
لبرنامج محاكاة المريخ بناسا العام الماضي،
community art all over the planet.
متعدد الثقافات حول العالم.
been combining both.
about that NASA mission.
planetary surface analogue
that is specifically designed
of long-term isolation of small crews.
طويل المدى للأطقم الصغيرة.
with a crew of six,
مع طاقم مكون من ستة أشخاص،
was actually a food study,
for astronauts living in deep space --
الذين يعيشون في فضاء عميق --
as you can see here,
كما ترون هنا،
and lots of other stuff to do,
وأشياء أخرى كثيرة،
at the end of every day.
with just a small group of people
مجموعة صغيرة فحسب من الناس
of psychological challenges:
in these circumstances;
you start to sense
الذي تبدأ بالإحساس به
how individual crew members
productive and happy,
a good deal of autonomy
a lot about leadership,
about our future in outer space.
بشأن مستقبلنا في الفضاء الخارجي.
and we will start inhabiting outer space.
وسنبدأ بالسكن في الفضاء الخارجي.
or it might take 500 years,
a new art project called Seeker.
يدعى الباحث "سيكر".
challenging communities all over the world
يتحدى المجتمعات في أرجاء العالم
human habitation and survival.
the world is going wrong
"يا إلهي، العالم يسير بالاتجاه الخاطئ
another future somewhere else."
مستقبلًا آخر في مكان ما غير هذا".
from earthbound constraints
and it works really well,
وهو مُجدي بشكل كبير جدًا،
of what we're doing.
I'm using a cocreation approach,
أقوم باستخدام المنهج الإنشاء المساعد،
from many artists.
into a group, into a community,
إلى مجموعة، إلى مجتمع،
and build the artwork.
when architects visit what we're doing,
عندما يزور المهندسون ما نفعله،
of a hard time understanding
fantastic large-scale scupltures
المجسمات الكبيرة الرائعة
in Belgium and Holland.
of almost 50 people.
of that same project,
to do the architecture differently.
بعمل الهيكلة بشكل مختلف.
they kept the base of the artwork,
وأبقوا على أساس العمل الفني،
architecture on top of that.
crucial part of the project.
evolving architecture.
presented a few weeks ago in Holland,
تم تقديمها قبل أسابيع قليلة في هولندا،
as modules to build a starship.
"الكارافانات" كنماذج لبناء سفينة الفضاء.
as a technological challenge.
as a combination of three systems:
component in the project.
في هذا المشروع.
surrounding the astronauts,
with part of the food that they're eating.
بجزء من الغذاء الذي تتناوله.
inside these art and design projects.
داخل مشاريع التصميم والفن هذه.
for multiple days on end,
لعدة أيام بأكملها،
you can see an isolation mission
in Ljubljana in Slovenia,
في لجبلجانا في سلوفاكيا،
locked themselves up --
this is a very performative
is currently being developed
النسخة القادمة من المشروع
who is also a TED Fellow,
وهو أيضًا زميل TED،
a magical place.
مكان ساحر.
considered a Mars analogue.
in certain locations
to test equipment.
of being connected to space
that's being developed there.
location on the planet,
فإنها أكثر المواقع جفافًا على الكوكب،
to build our project,
مثيرًا جدًا للاهتمام،
is something we have to explore fully.
يجب علينا اكتشافه بالكامل.
what's going to happen.
particular version of the project
with the local population,
for a very long time
experts in sustainability,
to see what we can learn from them,
into space exploration.
أصحاب الأرض في استكشاف الفضاء.
how we look at our future in outer space
إلى مستقبلنا في الفضاء الخارجي
biology, technology and people;
local traditions
and integrate that into our deep future.
وندمج ذلك في مستقبلنا الغامض.
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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