Star Ark A Living, Self-Sustaining Spaceship
As space ventures have become more numerous, leading scientists and theorists have offered ways of building a living habitat in a hostile environment, taking an ‘ecosystems’ view of space colonization. The contributors to this volume t
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Rachel Armstrong, Ed.
Star Ark A Living, Self-Sustaining Spaceship
Rachel Armstrong (editor)
Star Ark A Living, Self-Sustaining Spaceship
Editor Rachel Armstrong, PhD. Professor of Experimental Architecture Newcastle University Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
SPRINGER-PRAXIS BOOKS IN SPACE EXPLORATION
Springer Praxis Books ISBN 978-3-319-31040-4 ISBN 978-3-319-31042-8 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-31042-8
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Preface
This anthology examines the Interstellar question – i.e. the idea that we may one day live beyond the world we know and settle distant planets. A challenge on this scale requires not only vision, but multiple voices for the acknowledgment of complexity and contradictions. These are inherent in the quest. Taking a multidisciplinary and cultural view of the challenge, the book accordingly seeks to provide a form of cultural catalysis by which an interstellar culture may be seeded (it is, in other words, emphatically not a technical manual seeking to offer formal solutions to particular problems). To address such ambitions, the book has been divided into two main sections – Part I and II – in which differing conventions of writing have been deployed. Part I, written by Rachel Armstrong, proposes a new age of space exploration based on an ecological perspective of the cosmos. It is this that will create the conditions for inhabiting starships and, ultimately, new worlds. Drawing on her leadership of the Persephone Project, this section adopts an experimental, yet testable, and inclusive approach to constructing a livable and self-sustaining starship. Persephone is part of the Icarus Interstellar group’s portfolio of work – an international cons
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