https://offearth.cargo.site Off Earth Atlas Mon, 06 Nov 2023 06:40:21 +0000 https://offearth.cargo.site en https://offearth.cargo.site/Introduction Wed, 05 Oct 2022 14:26:36 +0000 Off Earth Atlas https://offearth.cargo.site/Introduction OFF | EARTH ATLAS https://offearth.cargo.site/Body Wed, 05 Oct 2022 14:26:37 +0000 Off Earth Atlas https://offearth.cargo.site/Body Off-Earth Atlas <img width="2754" height="250" width_o="2754" height_o="250" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8566f74fc1d670a9885bcb35d7a7b90a3f8f51748a2b068a3d5e7909b679e02d/Logos.png" data-mid="179803281" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8566f74fc1d670a9885bcb35d7a7b90a3f8f51748a2b068a3d5e7909b679e02d/Logos.png" />&nbsp;︎ Registration for Oxford workshop&nbsp; ︎︎︎&nbsp; UCL COSS ︎︎︎&nbsp; Programmes ︎︎︎&nbsp; Team ︎︎︎ &nbsp;Explorations The Off Earth Atlas is a joint project of the University College London (UCL) and the Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL), in partnership with the Collège de France and the Maison Française d’Oxford. It aims to foster a sustained dialogue between anthropology, and the social sciences/ humanities more generally, and all those who are engaged in the ongoing endeavour to explore and exploit outer space.&nbsp; A series of workshops will cast new light on four key aspects of that emerging dialogue: Seedling Biospheres in Outer Space&nbsp;(Paris)<img width="1920" height="1920" width_o="1920" height_o="1920" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e497e218b6032395729eff148ddf43e131123016e149c7d5f7e5990342a170b8/Rasterised-Icons_0000_Layer-4.png" data-mid="161283102" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e497e218b6032395729eff148ddf43e131123016e149c7d5f7e5990342a170b8/Rasterised-Icons_0000_Layer-4.png" /> Territories (London) <img width="1920" height="1920" width_o="1920" height_o="1920" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1b2bb2774345e77439a9bd8181e8828d33e0a93e00e39e4785e3fc2c08ef81b7/Rasterised-Icons_0002_Layer-2.png" data-mid="161283112" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1b2bb2774345e77439a9bd8181e8828d33e0a93e00e39e4785e3fc2c08ef81b7/Rasterised-Icons_0002_Layer-2.png" /> Architectures and Infrastructures (London) <img width="1920" height="1920" width_o="1920" height_o="1920" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/66b488cf0aa8ccaf1a6d7655479ae664558382b1e3e2c1dde978bd4b4c5c82ba/Rasterised-Icons_0001_Layer-3.png" data-mid="161283107" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/66b488cf0aa8ccaf1a6d7655479ae664558382b1e3e2c1dde978bd4b4c5c82ba/Rasterised-Icons_0001_Layer-3.png" /> Cosmologies&nbsp;(Oxford) <img width="1920" height="1920" width_o="1920" height_o="1920" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/91934248e02f53931bcac3981b030eac73bdb94cd4343ebf459f4f8e0fe92f16/Rasterised-Icons_0003_Layer-1.png" data-mid="161283116" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/91934248e02f53931bcac3981b030eac73bdb94cd4343ebf459f4f8e0fe92f16/Rasterised-Icons_0003_Layer-1.png" /> &nbsp; Ultimately, these will result in an ‘Off Earth Atlas’, containing some fifty images and graphs accompanied by short texts. https://offearth.cargo.site/Project-Index Wed, 12 Apr 2023 13:30:20 +0000 Off Earth Atlas https://offearth.cargo.site/Project-Index Project Index: Hawaiian Shirts Data Centres Space AI Mars Analogues 3D-printed Wrenches https://offearth.cargo.site/Team-List Mon, 06 Nov 2023 06:40:21 +0000 Off Earth Atlas https://offearth.cargo.site/Team-List The Off-Earth Atlas Team <img width="500" height="500" width_o="500" height_o="500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/59b28fe06589d09df3c9aded958b51c70ae491a2d93d1178174f4fdd46ba9417/Profile_0003_image.jpg" data-mid="196242018" border="0" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/500/i/59b28fe06589d09df3c9aded958b51c70ae491a2d93d1178174f4fdd46ba9417/Profile_0003_image.jpg" />Istvan Praet Istvan Praet is an anthropologist based at Durham University (UK). He is the author of ‘Animism and the Question of Life’ (Routledge, 2014), in which he examines indigenous notions of humanity and life cross-culturally. In recent years Praet has been working at the interface of science and technology studies (STS) and the anthropology of science. He has conducted ethnographic research with astrobiologists and planetary scientists. He is the co-editor of ‘Familiarizing the Extraterrestrial / Making Our Planet Alien’ (Duke University Press, 2017). His latest research focuses on how scientists remake objectivity itself in the context of outer space exploration <img width="500" height="500" width_o="500" height_o="500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5d865b669cf314fb7eebe6a8c2bba0b1cf9a802b6bc18dbac31bd701ef734c13/Profile_0002_2020-Perig-Pitrou--Ivan-Alechine.jpg" data-mid="196242017" border="0" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/500/i/5d865b669cf314fb7eebe6a8c2bba0b1cf9a802b6bc18dbac31bd701ef734c13/Profile_0002_2020-Perig-Pitrou--Ivan-Alechine.jpg" />Perig Pitrou Perig Pitrou is an anthropologist, and a CNRS senior researcher at the Maison Française d’Oxford. He leads the team “Anthropology of Life” in the Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Sociale at the Collège de France, Université Paris Sciences et Lettres. After an M.A in philosophy at the University Sorbonne Paris I, he obtained a PhD in Anthropology at the EHESS, Paris. His project of “Anthropology of Life” involves an epistemological endeavour which articulates the different approaches used to tackle the topic of life (Ecologies of Life, Science and Technology Studies, Anthropology of Biopolitics and Forms of Life). After the publication of Les anthropologues et la vie, he is finishing the writing of a book entitled Anthropology of Life. Object and Methods. <img width="500" height="500" width_o="500" height_o="500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/413e8c7ae25185a09cfeca65184dcc74e16ff5a6015859a9b4e67768130dd970/Profile_0004_IMG_4538.jpg" data-mid="196242019" border="0" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/500/i/413e8c7ae25185a09cfeca65184dcc74e16ff5a6015859a9b4e67768130dd970/Profile_0004_IMG_4538.jpg" />Victor BuchliVictor Buchli is Professor of Material Culture within the Material Culture Group at UCL and works on the material culture of Low Earth Orbit, architecture, domesticity, the archaeology of the recent past, and critical understandings of materiality and new technologies. Currently he is Principal Investigator of the 5 year European Research Council funded research project: ETHNO-ISS: An Ethnography of an Extraterrestrial Society: the International Space Station (ERC Advanced Grant, no. 833135) and&nbsp;is one of the theme leaders of the ESA_lab@UCL. <img width="500" height="500" width_o="500" height_o="500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c202f6267689f3aee0cb4811fa3488d114603c814a2bf0f8ab1c40e4cb4005d4/Profile_0001_IMG_2016.jpg" data-mid="196242016" border="0" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/500/i/c202f6267689f3aee0cb4811fa3488d114603c814a2bf0f8ab1c40e4cb4005d4/Profile_0001_IMG_2016.jpg" />David Jeevendrampillai&nbsp; Dr David Jeevendrampillai is an Anthropologist of Outer Space at UCL Anthropology, Director of the Centre of Outer Space Studies and a research fellow on the ERC ETHNO-ISS project. His current research examines how seeing the Earth from space informs emergent forms of citizenship, identity and belonging. He is interested in themes of the body, architecture, infrastructure, politics, the future and anthropological methods. He works with the space industry as an anthropological consultant in a variety of positions and is interested working with different disciplines on critical approaches to Outer Space. <img width="500" height="500" width_o="500" height_o="500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/013a33f7aaa238ec441097a4ad30441961a6ed06c423c757a99a4f24666c8d59/Profile_0005_D-Mercier.jpg" data-mid="196242021" border="0" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/500/i/013a33f7aaa238ec441097a4ad30441961a6ed06c423c757a99a4f24666c8d59/Profile_0005_D-Mercier.jpg" />Delphine Mercier Delphine Mercier is the Curator of the Ethnography Collection at UCL Anthropology. She is also a PhD candidate UCL Science and Technology Studies. Her current research focuses on the different methods to engage with objects among which approaches based on indigenous knowledge, the senses or the emotions. She has elaborated visual narratives and curated or co-curated physical and digital exhibitions and displays both in France and in the UK, and is interested in the importance of the object/the visual in balance with the text. &nbsp; <img width="500" height="500" width_o="500" height_o="500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a89e94fc3c4371b08bd53eec3dcac3717f467b8882b5c5bb8b67f8186c188ebe/Profile_0000_photo_2023-11-08-21.03.12.jpg" data-mid="196242015" border="0" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/500/i/a89e94fc3c4371b08bd53eec3dcac3717f467b8882b5c5bb8b67f8186c188ebe/Profile_0000_photo_2023-11-08-21.03.12.jpg" />Gerald SimGerald Sim is a heritage practitioner based in Singapore, Jakarta, and London.&nbsp; He currently works in the Singapore civil service managing state archaeological resources. He is a recent graduate of the UCL Institute of Archaeology. He has experience and interest in archaeological, art-historical, and anthropological research. He is also a freelance website and graphic designer, under the moniker Studio Selasa.&nbsp; https://offearth.cargo.site/Explorations Tue, 06 Jun 2023 12:48:06 +0000 Off Earth Atlas https://offearth.cargo.site/Explorations Explorations Discover the themes contributors have explored in the workshops. <img width="760" height="840" width_o="760" height_o="840" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5286aafb1c51da0f53cd17ca9e38d87bf07b77fd5625360d580cb10796d03e25/Navigation_0004_Seedling-BIospheres.png" data-mid="181190842" border="0" data-scale="40" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/760/i/5286aafb1c51da0f53cd17ca9e38d87bf07b77fd5625360d580cb10796d03e25/Navigation_0004_Seedling-BIospheres.png" />Seedling Biospheres View Closed environments | Preparing for off-earth survival | The future of humanity |&nbsp; https://offearth.cargo.site/Exhibition-1-Title-Page Tue, 06 Jun 2023 13:00:19 +0000 Off Earth Atlas https://offearth.cargo.site/Exhibition-1-Title-Page How do we prepare for off-earth survival? Three projects that illustrate themes explored in the first Off-Earth Atlas workshop, Seedling Biospheres. https://offearth.cargo.site/Exhibition-1-1 Tue, 06 Jun 2023 13:01:54 +0000 Off Earth Atlas https://offearth.cargo.site/Exhibition-1-1 I: Closed Environments <img width="2028" height="1434" width_o="2028" height_o="1434" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0eb941adb1fcbaa58dc9852b6f0f9a0a172d5dde7bb53226e1fb457fe74fbea0/Military-Mars-Jar.jpg" data-mid="181192336" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0eb941adb1fcbaa58dc9852b6f0f9a0a172d5dde7bb53226e1fb457fe74fbea0/Military-Mars-Jar.jpg" />A uniformed Air Force scientist examines a Mars jar at the School of Aviation Medicine’s microbiology laboratory in 1957. (Source: AFHRA, Iris # 0480880) What’s inside a Mars jar?Jordan Bimm Many assume that research on potential extraterrestrial biology began at NASA in the 1960s. But a little-known military program started in the early 1950s created tiny simulations of extreme Martian conditions inside air-tight glass enclosures, which they called Mars jars. My project “follows the Mars jars” from their Cold War military origin into their wide use by civilian NASA scientists including astrobiologists and planetary scientists for research, training, and public relations. So, what’s inside a Mars jar? Much more than simulated regolith, thin CO2, and hardy Earth life. Every miniature world contains a grand vision of who and what the Red Planet is for. https://offearth.cargo.site/Exhibition-1-2 Tue, 06 Jun 2023 13:30:08 +0000 Off Earth Atlas https://offearth.cargo.site/Exhibition-1-2 Along with humans, fish could be the second vertebrate to be blasted into the solar system in the near future. Cyrille PrzybylaImage: Aquaculture fish embryos after altered gravity experiment (© Gilbert Dutto) https://offearth.cargo.site/Exhibition-1-3 Tue, 06 Jun 2023 13:34:29 +0000 Off Earth Atlas https://offearth.cargo.site/Exhibition-1-3 II: Surviving Off-Earth The presence of a human community on the Moon or on Mars in long-term residence would require the establishment of a production unit allowing partial or total food autonomy in addition to freight deliveries. One of the primary purposes of a bioregenerative life support system is to provide food sources for crewed missions by utilizing in situ resources and converting wasted molecules into food biomass. <img width="850" height="637" width_o="850" height_o="637" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2074bee3f5faffe1357694c4c83036204637a42b1c5949a1e8fb54d4bf930780/Lunar-Hatch-Programme-Studying-the-space-aquaculture-feasibility-on-the-Moonartistic-view-PierreLopez.jpg" data-mid="181200102" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/850/i/2074bee3f5faffe1357694c4c83036204637a42b1c5949a1e8fb54d4bf930780/Lunar-Hatch-Programme-Studying-the-space-aquaculture-feasibility-on-the-Moonartistic-view-PierreLopez.jpg" /> Lunar Hatch Programme: Studying the space aquaculture feasibility on the Moon (artistic view © Pierre Lopez) More available than arable land, water would be present on several planetary bodies in our solar system. And most of the time it's salt water. The nutritional quality of aquatic organisms (invertebrates, fish, algae) makes them potential candidates for supplementing the nutrients provided by terrestrial organisms, such as plants or insects. Trying to plant a biosphere on another terrestrial planet highlights Earth's challenges of producing healthy food with little input and little waste. The Lunar Hatch program is investigating the first step in exporting our aquatic biosphere to space by studying the feasibility of a journey of aquaculture embryos from Earth to the Moon. Sowing, always sowing, even in space is probably the destiny of humanity. A) Random Positioning Machine with a CubeSat exposed for 39 hours of simulated microgravity with European seabass embryos B) Aquatic rotor (from 1 g to 5 g) with experimental tanks in triplicate with European seabass embryos (© Véronique Ribière) https://offearth.cargo.site/Exhibition-1-4 Tue, 06 Jun 2023 19:53:36 +0000 Off Earth Atlas https://offearth.cargo.site/Exhibition-1-4 III: No Longer Human?Kathleen Bryson There are crucial evolutionary considerations for First Contact with aliens and long-haul space flights, including cryosleep and the hypothesised self-sustaining ecosystem of a generation ship. Principles of convergent evolution applied to long-living cultural organisms predict behavioural similarities between us and speculative extraterrestrial organisms. Although complex aliens may well have similar tendencies to favour ingroups, and to isolate outgroups when advantageous, they would also likely have the same byproduct empathy from required cooperation as social animals that enables us to include pets, plants, and even robots in our social circle.“The Green Man (Martian Intent on Colonisation Lands in a Remote Part of Alaska Untouched by Human Inhabitation and is Confused by the Lack of Formal Capitalistic Hierarchy When He Demands of the Animals to be Taken to a Leader)” by Kathleen Bryson, 2018. <img width="1920" height="1887" width_o="1920" height_o="1887" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7ab957da014eea27bb9d8c206dcfd88d7ca029b609d4a375f173a09df619fc99/Bryson2.png" data-mid="181248032" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7ab957da014eea27bb9d8c206dcfd88d7ca029b609d4a375f173a09df619fc99/Bryson2.png" />“The Reddest Planet (Speculative Mars Utopia” by Kathleen Bryson, 2019. Both “we” and “they” could overcome such biases to include them/us in our ingroup due to these same adaptations towards pro-social behaviour.&nbsp;