Brick Moon

A few weeks ago, we posted a "save the date" message for a workshop for space habitat designers and mission planners that we'll be holding in Las Vegas on July 29, coincinding with the AIAA ASCEND conference. Here's the full invitation! We'll have informal presentations and discussion of our research on space habitats in the morning, followed by a charrette based on principles of design fiction in the afternoon. In the process, we'll facilitate a greater understanding of key issues in habitat design that will lead you to new ways of thinking about your current and future projects. You'll find more details in the attached document. You can register for the workshop at http://bit.ly/4dPCFeI! Participation is limited to just 15 people, so sign up soon, and share with any interested colleagues. Please let us know if you have any questions about the event.

A few weeks ago, we posted a "save the date" message for a workshop for space habitat designers and mission planners that we'll be holding in Las Vegas on July 29, coincinding with the AIAA ASCEND conference. Here's the full invitation! We'll have informal presentations and discussion of our research on space habitats in the morning, followed by a charrette based on principles of design fiction in the afternoon. In the process, we'll facilitate a greater understanding of key issues in habitat design that will lead you to new ways of thinking about your current and future projects. You'll find more details in the attached document. You can register for the workshop at http://bit.ly/4dPCFeI! Participation is limited to just 15 people, so sign up soon, and share with any interested colleagues. Please let us know if you have any questions about the event.

A long overdue update to my personal website, it now includes info about my two books: Space Settlements (Columbia, 2019), and Space Forces (Verso, 2021) https://lnkd.in/eWyXYTgA

If you're working on space habitats, you're going to want to read this post! I'm pleased to announce that the first results from the first archaeological work done in space, the Sampling Quadrangle Assemblages Research Experiment (SQuARE) on the ISS, are now available as a pre-print: https://lnkd.in/g7Ry276A In this work, we examine two of the six sample locations - a workstation in Node 2 and a blank wall in Node 3 - documented by the crew with daily photography from January to March 2022. We analyze the function of each area and chronological trends. *Key conclusions are that the workstation was rarely used for its intended purpose, if ever, and that it was instead an area for contingent storage; and that the blank wall took on associations with body maintenance (cleaning oneself) because existing facilities are inadequate.* This work validates a new technique for doing archaeology at a distance, and shows how the social sciences can reveal important features of life in space, so future astronauts' experiences can be improved. Work by Shawn Graham, Alice Gorman, Chantal Brousseau, and Salma Abdullah, along with yours truly!