Special Interest Group: Bio-Futures for Transplanetary Habitats
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A platform for interdisciplinary & biocentered research on habitats in extreme & outer space worlds.
explore and enable interdisciplinary research on transplanetary habitats and habitats within extreme environments
through an emphasis on the bio-social and biotechnological relations.
● Establish research group as an internal platform within HBBE Themes
● Initiate process of funding acquisition for establishing research group, develop a website platform, organise events/symposia
● Enabling interdisciplinary research through projects within the HBBE: Initiating projects within the research group itself as well as collaboration with other research groups
● Presentations of research at all stages at conferences and other outreach platforms and channels
● Collaborate with stakeholder organisations to create and test prototypes with organisations around space travel
● Organise networking event(s) hosted by BFfTH and HBBE to drive the research and application forward together with a global community
● Establish a diverse network of researchers, encouraging a move towards transdisciplinary research
● Establish website to provide a virtual platform to showcase research, link collaborators → serving as a gateway/bulletin board for members and nonmembers, facilitating communication beyond the HBBE
● Relationships with the natural and artificial within space habitats (Currently IAC abstract under review)
● Envision novel habitat morphologies that emphasise humanity’s more-than-human relations through novel technology and design infrastructures
● Multi-species narratives and relations to sustain human and other-than-human life in space and extreme habitats
● Habitat environments that embody and seek to establish practices and spaces that facilitate as-well-as-possible worlds for humans and nonhumans within on-Earth and space environments.
● Speculative ethics for companionship between humanity and other-than-humans within space habitats
● Propagating and sustaining earthlife beyond Earth environments
Technological Infrastructures and Design
● Use of biotechnology and bio-design in the built environment to ensure and support safety, sustainability, habitability, reliability, and crew efficiency, productivity and comfort in extreme environments off and on Earth
● Leveraging material-driven design processes for the design of extreme space and on-Earth habitats.
● Strategies and frameworks for sustainable and ‘responsible innovation’ approach towards space research
● Sustainable living on Earth through a holistic systems approach
Everyone is welcome in BFfTH, internal HBBE members and external people & associations as well, regardless of their background.
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