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Lecture by Madhu Thangavelu

Sustainable Moon: Lunar Tourism

In the frame of the Module Emerging Fields in Architecture (++), HB2, TU Wien

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Content: The Moon, our natural satellite, is the closest celestial body, orbiting a quarter million miles away. People visited and explored the Moon five decades ago. The Moon is nearly as old as Earth, and as a dormant body not disturbed by internal weathering processes, holds pristine geological records of solar system evolution and solar activity. Robotic missions are underway and plans are being formulated around the globe to explore and return people to the Moon. How to go about diverse proposed lunar activities without polluting and irreparably damaging the extremely fragile lunar environment? How to sustain such activities without the “on again off again” missions of the past? With the arrival of agile, commercial space companies Lunar Tourism may hold promise for speedy, self-sustainable ecologically sensitive lunar activities in this 21st century

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The module Emerging Fields in Architecture imparts current knowledge from new research fields in architectural and engineering disciplines, with the aim of dealing with current and future design challenges in a broader social context in an interdisciplinary and fundamental way. The lectures impart knowledge about different and interdisciplinary approaches to design, current developments and results of material and construction research, about planning and building under/in extreme conditions as well as about structures that change or develop due to changing parameters.

In this context, strategies for design (from the initial idea to implementation) are questioned in an interdisciplinary discourse, and the question of how the path from idea to realisation can be shaped and to what extent it is possible to be systematically creative is explored. In the practical part, an independent cross-thematic examination is to be carried out.

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