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On 24, 25, 26 October Fabrica presents “SPACE AND EARTH DNA WEEK”: international experts will discuss in round tables about high technologies and design strategies of space exploration and building techniques, along with themes such as the relationship between people, machines, Space and planet Earth for managing sustainable cities, intelligent clothing and exploring the universe to build a better inhabited earth.
With:
Paolo Nespoli, Senior Astronaut, European Space Agency (ESA)
Dava Newman, professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Guillermo Trotti, architect and designer
Vittorio Cafaggi, D Airlab (Dainese)
Steven Brittan, designer and President at Studio Arts College International (SACI), Florence
Julien Cantegreil, NewSpace entrepreneur and activist
Rob Van Kranenburg, founder of The Internet of Things Council
Free entrance, events in English
Fabrica
Via Postioma, 54/F
Catena di Villorba (Tv)
For more information: press@fabrica.it
Wednesday, 24 October
18:30
Paolo Nespoli, Senior Astronaut, European Space Agency (ESA)
Lecture: “In Space for Earth”
Paolo Nespoli will describe how he got from a small provincial town in Italy to work for the European Space Agency and fly three times in Space. He will tell us about the ground preparation needed for being able to execute a long duration mission on the International Space Station, what astronauts do during the mission, the standard day in Space, the return to Earth.
Thursday, 25 October
10:30
Dava Newman, professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Lecture: “Exploring Space For Earth: Earth’s Vital Signs Revealed”
Recent space science missions to Pluto and Jupiter, the discovery of thousands of exoplanets, and orbital missions to monitor Spaceship Earth will be highlighted. Humanity will become interplanetary, and is on a journey to Mars. We are closer to reaching the Red Planet with human explorers than we have ever been in our history. Space agencies, academia and industry are working on the technologies that will enable human “boots on Mars” in the 2030s. We are testing advanced technologies from solar electric propulsion to cutting edge life support systems, advanced space suit design, to the first crops grown in space, the journey to Mars is already unfolding in tangible ways today for tomorrow. However, Mars is not ‘Plan B’. Spaceship Earth, our pale blue dot, is the most magnificent planet to inhabit. Earth is speaking to us – are we listening? The past two years have been the hottest recorded on Earth since we began measuring global climate for the past 140 years.
11:30
Guillermo Trotti, architect and designer
Lecture: “EarthDNA – Accelerating Positive Change for Spaceship Earth”
EarthDNA seeks to accelerate the transformative actions needed to assure the sustainability of human civilization on our planetary home, Spaceship Earth. We will mine the vast databases on the state of our planet to create compelling narratives and visualizations. We will enable individuals to connect more directly with our planet and to understand Earth’s vital signs and global ecological emergency we are now facing. The United Nations has recognized repeatedly that we need to make transformative changes to cope with climate change, ocean degradation, biodiversity loss and other global threats.
The challenge sounds daunting, but over the last fifty years the world has put into place the architecture to drive the changes we need. EarthDNA uses Big Data and AI to accelerate the global sustainability revolution just starting. EarthDNA seeks to inform, encourage, and enhance accountability for the actions by leaders at every level of government, business, education, and society worldwide.
15:00
Vittorio Cafaggi, D Airlab (Dainese)
Lecture: “Intelligent clothing: airbags to protect humans today and tomorrow”
The D Airlab mission is “To advocate and deliver safety to people exposed to traumatic injuries in everyday activities”. In order to accomplish the mission, D Airlab employs wearable airbags developed after long studies on ergonomics and used today by many motorcycle and ski World Champions for their own safety. The same technology is today applied for the protection of workers in height, elderly and epileptic people against falls and for children safety in cars. These projects for everyday life are leading the way to the protection of what will be “everyday life” in the future: Space travels.
Born in 1962, Vittorio Cafaggi has a degree in economics and business administration and is the CEO of D Airlab, an innovative startup company founded by Lino Dainese to transfer 45 years of know-how in the field of human protection in dangerous sports to other human activities. Vittorio has been working with Lino Dainese for 28 years, having the chance to work on many innovative projects connected with the protection of the human body with airbags and dedicated to astronauts health and safety.
16:30
Steven Brittan, designer and President at Studio Arts College International (SACI), Florence
Lecture: “Urbanization and Resilience; New Smart City tools for measuring and managing sustainable cities”
Climate Change cannot be addressed adequately without considering the impact of Urbanization. By 2050, 70% of the earth’s population will be living in cities. Juxtapose this with the disjunction between developed economies, emerging economies and barely surviving economies, holistic strategies are needed to combat the rapid movement towards an inevitable “hothouse” tipping point. We do have however in our arsenal the ability to create a global techno-sphere where all our systems are becoming more connected, measurable and interdependent. This presentation looks at environmental and technological strategies implemented by the Smart City movement including collaborations between private, corporate and government agencies on the integration of new technologies combined with resilient strategies in cities. These collaborations often supersede conservative or reactionary government accords and promises broader and more effective solutions to combating the ever increasing onslaught of climate change…and our survival on planet earth.
18:00
Julien Cantegreil, NewSpace entrepreneur and activist
Lecture: “Space/Earth: Building a narrative for one of our generation’s most pressing exploration”
Earth and Space are twins: they mirror each other. Exploring Space is re-exploring earth, no less. In an age of conflicts and creeping militarization, it is a call for a deeper commitment to science, knowledge and wonder. In a technology driven age, it is a call for more humanities and a global inclusive narrative. Exploring Space builds a better inhabited earth. It is now time for action since, for the first time in history, Outer Space is here: we live in Space, as exemplified by MASCOT landing on Ryugu asteroid on this very month of October 2018, and so we need to know how to live there in a proper way. To inhabit a place requires concepts, design, narrative. So we will explore very practically how the humanist heritage/ European design tradition can be useful.
Friday, 26 October
11:00
Round table with Paolo Nespoli, Dava Newman, Guillermo Trotti, Vittorio Cafaggi, Steven Brittan, Julien Cantegreil and Rob Van Kranenburg.
18:30
Rob Van Kranenburg, founder of The Internet of Things Council
Lecture: “Identity in the digital age. Designing Resonance”
Goods, persons, houses, situations and industrial processes all radiate data and create “digital twins”, virtual representations of real services and products. These twins exist as sets of properties in an analytic layer that is in many hands at the moment but not really under the control of stakeholders. Whoever or whatever gains agency in and on that layer (which defines governance of the everyday) must grasp the practice and theory of assigning, withdrawing, validating and defining the very nature of entitlements; who/what/when/where exists, how and why? The situation is hybrid in the sense that the digital twins actually begin to actuate back in the ‘analogue’ objects. This is the moment of ontological change. It demands a new toolset on the notion of identity itself.