March 2017
Space research inspires innovation in fashion
... ‘language of usability’ allows transferring conventional outfits that are easier to handle, to another field, in this case space. Fashion designers have been inspired by space, envisaging new scenarios explored by the first human missions and the...
December 2017
Dressing up for space
... of the astronauts’’ home countries. Students were invited to participate in this unique event by envisioning and creating everyday fashion for a tomorrow’s world, where space travel is common and gravity is not a barrier. Students were also asked...
March 2017
Space for art: Quilting in orbit
... in space have inspired space suit art, but they have also inspired fashion designers to think differently about our own Earthly clothing. That inspiration has ...Politecnico di Milano, Italy about how ‘Space research inspires innovation in fashion’.
May 2018
Publish or perish: the astronomer’s dilemma
... grants and observation time. Sexy topics, or the ‘fashion of the day’, are often favoured over important basic ...in quantified terms. Much more emphasis is needed on old fashioned qualitative evaluation by expert committees - and funding based on it....
June 2014
Achilles’ heel
... ‘junk’ from orbit. However, these technologies in themselves pose a risk to active satellites if deployed in an aggressive fashion. Deliberate kinetic threats in the space domain are limited to a small number of states. In 2007, China successfully...
December 2014
A door closes
... the state and society. Both sides viewed global events through the prism of their rivalry and fashioned their foreign policies accordingly. The two superpowers defined the international system and bore ultimate responsibility...
