Designing Space Futures: Design for Space
Event description
- Academic events
- Free
- Open to the public
Join The Design School at Arizona State University for Design for Space, a film screening and public lecture featuring Alexander MacDonald, former chief economist at NASA and distinguished professor of practice at The School of Earth and Space Exploration and The Design School. This event launches the spring lecture series and marks an important step in shaping the future Space Architecture curriculum.
MacDonald introduces a framework for “Designing Space Futures” that brings together design, economics, space mission architecture and storytelling to explore how humans imagine, plan and build futures beyond Earth. Drawing on real-world projects from his career at NASA, the lecture examines some of the diverse tools that are used to design our futures in space and why creative, interdisciplinary thinking is essential to the next era of exploration.
The program highlights the importance of inspiring the next generation of designers, architects, artists and thinkers working at the intersection of space, culture and innovation.
Program
11:00 a.m. - Doors open
11:30 a.m. - Welcome remarks
11:45 a.m. - Screening of Becoming Interplanetary
12:00 p.m. - Public lecture
12:45 p.m. - Q&A with Alex MacDonald