Becoming Multiplanetary Species Panel

Space Architecture Talks is organized by Anastasia Prosina to promote and educate the general public as well as aerospace players about the nascent field of Space Architecture and bring awareness on how humanity will live in space.

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The panel is kicking off from the presentation of amazing Ariel Ekblaw, the Founding Director of MIT Media Lab's Space Exploration Initiative, showcasing MIT Media Lab's projects. Frank White, Space Philosopher and Author of The Overview Effect book, will continue with his slides on The Human Space Program As a Central Project for All of Humanity. After the presentation, we all are jumping in a conversation about what are the challenges humanity will be facing while becoming multi-planetary, and what you can do about it. How our culture, society, faith, and psychology is going to change? Any questions from the audience are welcomed!
We are trying out a new platform called Airmeet, which feels as real and authentic as in-person events. Fifteen minutes before the meeting, you will be able to join a Social Lounge where you grab a seat and chat with attendees! Meet like-minds, future partners, coworkers, and employers! Let's collaborate and build a digital space network! 
Going to space is risky, the off-planet environment is naturally hostile to humans. Moreover, NASA identified that the second biggest risk facing people living in space, after radiation, is crew behavioral health. Working and living in tiny space habitats, there is no runaway, no retreat, it is not possible to go outdoors and enjoy the waterfall /flow of water. During the long-duration missions, astronauts/space tourists struggle with seeing the same people, performing routine tasks, and the space habitat becomes a place of likely rising conflicts. Not everyone can tolerate the isolation and loneliness encountered on long space flights.
Meet our panel: Ariel Ekblaw, the Founding Director of <A HREF="https://www.media.mit.edu/groups/space-exploration/overview/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">MIT Media Lab's Space Exploration Initiative</A> Frank White, Space Philosopher, Author of The Overview Effect — Space Exploration and Human Evolution book <A HREF="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_White_(writer)#cite_note-bio-1" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer"></A>in which he coined the term <A HREF="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overview_effect" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="Overview effect" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">overview effect</A>. The event will be moderated by Anastasia Prosina, Founder & CEO, <A HREF="http://stellaramenities.space/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Stellar Amenities</A>
Space experts and enthusiasts alike are invited to attend this event and enjoy interactive conversation with like minds, plus a close-up look at exciting projects of MIT Media Lab's Space Exploration Initiative as well as Frank White's reflections on the Overview effect. Prepare the most exciting questions to be answered! 
Schedule (Friday, May 1st):
11:00 AM-11:13 AM -- Ariel and Frank will talk about their projects
11:13 AM- 12:00 PM PST -- panel discussion concluding with Q&A session.
Location: the event will be organized online. We'll send you a link to attend the event online. Instructions and a link to join (over Airmeet) will be sent to you after registration.
Sponsors are welcome!
We recommend registering in advance, before April 29 About speakers: 
Ariel Ekblaw is the founder and lead of the MIT Media Lab’s Space Exploration Initiative, a team of over 50 graduate students, faculty, and staff actively prototyping our Sci-Fi space future across 40+ in house research projects. For the Initiative, Ariel coordinates space research and launch opportunities across the spectrum of science, engineering, art, and design, and builds collaborations on this work with MIT and Space Industry partners. Ariel’s work has been featured in AIAA, IEEE, WIRED, Ars Technica, MIT Technology Review, Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal, PRI’s ScienceFriday, CNN, the BBC, and more.
Frank White has authored or co-authored numerous books on topics ranging from space exploration to climate change to artificial intelligence. His best-known work, The Overview Effect: Space Exploration and Human Evolution, is considered by many to be a seminal work in the field of space exploration. A film called "Overview," based largely on his work, has had nearly 8 million plays on Vimeo.
White considers himself to be a "space philosopher," and has long advocated developing a new philosophy of space exploration. His book on this topic, The Cosma Hypothesis: Implications of the Overview Effect, has just been published. In it, he asks the fundamental question, "What is the purpose of human space exploration? Why has the evolutionary process brought humanity to the brink of becoming a spacefaring species?"
Anastasia Prosina is an award-winning aspirational futurist and practitioner in Space Architecture, the nascent field of helping people thrive in small spaces in space. She is the Founder & CEO of Stellar Amenities, a company with the mission of complementing space habitats with lightweight, deployable & reconfigurable elements to support wellbeing in space.
Thank you to the National Space Society's Los Angeles Chapter for promoting this event

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