Angelo Vermeulen: How to go to space, without having to go to space
Angelo Vermeulen: Hoe we de ruimte in kunnen, zonder de ruimte in te gaan
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,
gezagvoerder van een NASA Mars-simulatie,
community art all over the planet.
gemeenschapskunst.
been combining both.
about that NASA mission.
over die NASA-missie hebben.
planetary surface analogue
simulatie van de oppervlakte van Mars
that is specifically designed
dat speciaal is ontwikkeld
of long-term isolation of small crews.
van kleine bemanningen te onderzoeken.
with a crew of six,
van zes in deze koepel gewoond,
ging over voedsel.
was actually a food study,
for astronauts living in deep space --
voor astronauten in de ruimte --
as you can see here,
zoals je hier ziet,
and lots of other stuff to do,
en andere bezigheden,
at the end of every day.
aan het eind van de dag.
with just a small group of people
om met een kleine groep mensen
op elkaar gepakt te zitten.
of psychological challenges:
psychologische uitdagingen:
in these circumstances;
onder deze omstandigheden bij elkaar;
you start to sense
how individual crew members
hoe afzonderlijke bemanningsleden
productive and happy,
productief en tevreden houdt.
a good deal of autonomy
a lot about leadership,
veel over leiderschap geleerd,
about our future in outer space.
over onze toekomst in de ruimte.
and we will start inhabiting outer space.
en daar ook gaan wonen.
or it might take 500 years,
a new art project called Seeker.
met de naam Seeker.
challenging communities all over the world
over de hele wereld uit
human habitation and survival.
en overleven in de ruimte brengen.
the world is going wrong
de wereld gaat naar de knoppen
another future somewhere else."
een nieuwe toekomst zien op te bouwen."
from earthbound constraints
van de aardse belemmeringen
als het ware opnieuw in te vullen.
and it works really well,
of what we're doing.
voor het project.
I'm using a cocreation approach,
is gezamenlijke creatie,
from many artists.
meeste kunstenaars verwacht.
into a group, into a community,
and build the artwork.
zoals termieten werken.
when architects visit what we're doing,
wat we aan het doen zijn,
of a hard time understanding
fantastic large-scale scupltures
en groot bouwwerk uit
in Belgium and Holland.
in België en Nederland.
of almost 50 people.
heeft daaraan gebouwd.
of that same project,
van datzelfde project,
to do the architecture differently.
compleet anders aangepakt.
they kept the base of the artwork,
en gingen terug naar de basis
architecture on top of that.
bovenop plaatsten.
kenmerk van het project.
crucial part of the project.
evolving architecture.
bouwkunst in beweging.
presented a few weeks ago in Holland,
geleden in Nederland gepresenteerd.
as modules to build a starship.
voor een ruimteschip gebruikt.
as a technological challenge.
niet alleen van een technische kant.
as a combination of three systems:
combinatie van drie systemen:
component in the project.
een sterk ecologisch component.
surrounding the astronauts,
with part of the food that they're eating.
met een deel van hun voedsel.
inside these art and design projects.
uitvoeren in deze ontwerpen.
for multiple days on end,
you can see an isolation mission
in Ljubljana in Slovenia,
in Ljubljana in Slovenië,
zichzelf hebben ingesloten --
locked themselves up --
this is a very performative
laten zien wat we doen
is currently being developed
is nu in ontwikkeling
who is also a TED Fellow,
Camilo Rodriguez-Beltran,
a magical place.
een wonderbaarlijk gebied.
considered a Mars analogue.
voor het Marsoppervlak.
in certain locations
to test equipment.
voor het testen van apparatuur.
of being connected to space
in connectie met de ruimte,
that's being developed there.
location on the planet,
to build our project,
voor ons project is,
is something we have to explore fully.
met duurzaamheid moeten gaan houden
what's going to happen.
particular version of the project
with the local population,
met de lokale, inheemse bevolking.
for a very long time
experts in sustainability,
op het gebied van duurzaamheid.
to see what we can learn from them,
wat we van hen kunnen leren,
into space exploration.
kunnen gebruiken bij ruimteonderzoek.
how we look at our future in outer space
op onze toekomst in de ruimte,
biology, technology and people;
biologie, technologie en mensen;
local traditions
and integrate that into our deep future.
voor onze toekomst in de ruimte.
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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