19 September 2023
The Astronomer’s Chair
... a social document. In the well-practised method of arts-based research, it “embeds” the images “back into a thick cultural context”, reconstructs a “conventionalized and value-laden perspective” and reveals how the chairs were “positioned within...
October 2017
The sci-fi noir world of Blade Runner
...either be ‘green’ or won’t be at all. Popular culture, including movies such as Blade Runner, has certainly played a...every way and we, in turn, become obsolete? Besides philosophy, popular culture is once again there to help us think. Blade Runner is ...
November 2018
How many people does it take to colonise an exoplanet?
... environment. The software included various demographic variables associated with birth and death rates, as well as several cultural variables such as marriage choice or polygamy. While his code was aimed towards the human colonisation of unoccupied...
March 2019
Laying the foundations for cosmic habitation
.... Nikitina-Hefliger (right), Chair of Asgardia’s Culture Committee and the president of the Musical Olympus Foundation, spoke during the... cultural session at the Caspian Week Conference in Davos,...
July 2019
Science and sensation in microgravity
... to doctoral level (e.g. ‘Fly your Thesis’, STEM outreach) and artist residencies to share the experience in creative and cultural media such as dance, theatre, writing, music, etc. During the reduced gravity phases, researchers flying onboard...
August 2019
Reinventing the space museum
.... Space as a discipline already enjoys tremendous popularity, and with the right direction space museums can be revived as cultural icons in cities all over the world and be as engaging at the grassroots level as they can afford to be. As more...
