January 2023
Evolving human space culture – reflections on humanity’s cultural potential in space
... potential thrown in and with conscientious care and consideration for the space environment around us. Evolving space culture Our new unique human environments in space will separate us almost completely from attachment to earthbound norms, becoming...
February 2019
Chaos and creation – cultural directions for the space industry
... Mark (which spans the duration of the course), explores the concept of an individual’s impact on collective contributions to human culture. It also highlights the role that intention and intuition play in its development. The premise is to work from...
October 2024
Space industry trajectory under the spotlight of cultural anthropology
...all? Is it worth it to send humans to space? What cultural outcomes will result from continued human space exploration and the colonisation ...if we revisited the ways of the ancient seafaring cultures and the desert nomads? Drawing inspiration not only...
August 2016
Are the days of innovation in global space over - or just beginning?
...as inspiration; while Star-Trek, Star Wars and other Hollywood sci-fi franchises owe outer space an enormous cultural debt. Innovation and inspiration promote technological advance and, in terms of military interventions, are precipitated by war. The...
May 2025
Mythologies of Outer Space - A new perspective on the final frontier
...Space, a new book edited by Jim Ellis and Noreen Humble, takes an interdisciplinary approach to exploring the cultural, historical, and ethical dimensions of space exploration. Drawing from astronomy, science fiction, Indigenous perspectives, and the...
May 2022
Multinational training for interplanetary spaceflight crews
...not guarantee successful intercultural interaction and can allow ethnic stereotypes, biases and overestimation of similarity among cultures. Crew simulation training for a fire event in an ISS module. Experience proves that ISS crew member candidates...
