Starship Congress 2015: Interstellar Hackathon 04-05 September 2015, Drexel University Talk Title: "Space Architecture: Design for Human Extended Space Missions" Abstract: Human interstellar travel introduces physiological, social, and psychological features that current short term space travel lacks. Such design mimics Earth with its social, communal, and psychological aspects that define humanity as we know it. In regular design, many factors are usually accounted for within a macro environment such as urban design, or a microenvironment that would be created by individuals later. In space architecture we have to factor in all the macro and micro aspects. Over one hundred design aspects required for crewed deep space travel were distributed into three main categories; structure, environment, and human needs. The items were analyzed for sustainable design requirements and for technology status. On Earth, as well as in deep space journeys, society and technology take their own course in adaption and evolution. Such developments come from two main factors; the inherited features within the miniature community and the continuous evolving effects of the surroundings. An effective design approach should account for the departure time conditions and allow for changes and advancements via comprehensive futuristic scenarios. Speaker: Antoine Faddoul Bio: Antoine Faddoul is a Designer, Artist, Futurist, and Storyteller. His approach combines elements of astronomy, natural sciences, architecture, archaeology, history, art, ancient mythology, and linguistics. He has lectured, written, and published several papers, articles, and books covering such areas. In his Starship Gliina project, Faddoul compiled a hundred aspects of design required for human deep space travel assessing sustainability for current and future technology. Faddoul holds a bachelor degree in Architecture and a MS in Construction Project Management.

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1. What a great talk! I'm researching infrastructure and logistics for the book I'm writing and running into a lot of the same concepts. The biggest concern for me is ecological compression - IE if you wanted to recreate earthlike ecosystems at the destination planet.
   
   I'd love to see this slide deck and that big spreadsheet from ~8:30
2. Bring on the Mothership !! Let's leave this overcrowded tumultuous blue rock