Building Beyond: Space Architecture, Engineering and Design

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Dyer, Sonya and Imhof, Barbara. 2022. 'Building Beyond: Space Architecture, Engineering and Design'. In: Building Beyond: Space Architecture, Engineering and Design. Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, United Kingdom 9 March 2022. [Conference or Workshop Item]

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Barbara Imhof, space architect and design researcher, and Sonya Dyer, artist and writer, joined host Luke Olsen to discuss extreme realities and fictions of living in deep space.

This event formed part of The Bartlett International Lectures Spring 2022.

Abstract
Building Beyond

‘Building Beyond’ integrates two lectures and a dialogue by Barbara Imhof, space architect and design researcher and Sonya Dyer, artist and writer, exploring extreme realities and fictions of living in deep space.

Barbara designs for extreme environments. Pioneering projects comprise SHEE - a Self-deployable Habitat for Extreme Environments and RegoLight, a 3D-printed moon base made solely from sintering the local resource lunar dust with concentrated solar beams. Design strategies include transformable spaces, water and air regeneration and the recycling of waste for a self-sustaining architecture.

Sonya’s work investigates notions of identity, social justice, politics, exploration, community, race and dark fecundity, a new term which seeks to describe and integrate the radical potentiality of repositioning Darkness as a synonym for Blackness within constructions of the future. Ideas of the Greek myth of Andromeda intersect with the dubious legacy of HeLa cells that translate growth principles in nature into suggestions for self-growing, self-sustaining architecture.

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