Wild SownApr 7

Re: #ArtemisII & #Carroll - Once we've reassembled our humans back on #Earth, let's resume our meeting discussing who gets to "#discover" and "name" places that are "#uncharted #territory".

What we do, in #broadcasts heard for decades, gets repeated by folks inspired to go "beyond" in their version of #humanity's #future.

Just as our #perspective on life & home changes w/ #Earthrise image, we need to maintain #awe & #humility for days ahead.

#NASA #Moon #spacesettlements #marscolonization

Show threadFred ScharmenFeb 21, 2018
Ch. 1 of #SpaceSettlements, "Topology: Future Primitives and the Shape of Space" is a primer on the many different ways that "space" away from planetary surfaces disrupts our preconceptions about space in general, here near Earth where we're used to being.
Show threadFred ScharmenFeb 21, 2018
On the periphery of the story I'm telling, are all sorts of people from the worlds of design, science fiction, science, and counterculture: like Rachel Carson, Carl Sagan, Larry Niven, Jane Jacobs, Bucky Fuller, and Le Corbusier. #SpaceSettlements
Show threadFred ScharmenFeb 21, 2018
#SpaceSettlements is about the design project that resulted in these public domain paintings. These were the products of a 1975 Summer Study sponsored by NASA (and, indirectly, by Stewart Brand. More on that later) https://settlement.arc.nasa.gov/70sArtHiRes/70sArt/art.html
Show threadFred ScharmenFeb 21, 2018
So here's a thread about the book project I'm working on, called #SpaceSettlements, due out late this year from Columbia Books on Architecture and the City.
Fred ScharmenFeb 18, 2018
Maybe I'll post some #SpaceSettlements book draft excerpts here over the next week while I'm doing citations ...
Fred ScharmenJun 22, 2017
Just realized that I am now almost halfway through a first (quite rough) draft of the book I'm working on! #spacesettlements
Fred ScharmenJun 20, 2017
Today's work: trying to make progress on a chapter draft, writing about artificial ground. #spacesettlements