[AAA] Seminario Virtual Room DAS - UChile; Marine diatoms in space: A memoir of the Bioarchitectures CosmoEcology project onboard the International Space Station - Luis Guzman

[Rene A. Mendez]

Estimado/as,

Les recuerdo que el Jueves 24 de Junio a las 12:15 hrs, tendremos 
seminario en el Departamento de Astronomía de la Universidad de Chile.

*Speaker*: Luis Bernardo Guzmán
Centro de Innovación y Diseño Avanzado, CINNDA
Researcher at the Center of Applied Ethics, Universidad de Chile

*Title*: Marine diatoms in space: A memoir of the Bioarchitectures 
CosmoEcology project onboard the International Space Station

*Abstract: *In this talk I will  narrate the experience of the 
Bioarquitecture CosmoEcology project by Chilean artist Luis Bernardo 
Guzmán as part of the Sojourner2020 of MIT's space exploration initiative.
A micro-gravity payload that carried 9 art and science projects onboard 
the International Space
Station between the months of March and April of the year 2020, during 
the time when the
COVID-19 pandemic was impacting the entire world with greater force. The 
artist's work
consisted of bringing marine diatoms of the Phaeodactylum Tricornutum 
strain to a lunar
micro-gravity environment to allow their adaptation to space conditions. 
The project was born
from the idea that it is necessary to develop a symbiotic perspective in 
relation to space
exploration since the conditions of life on Earth depend on these types 
of relationships and we
must learn from them in order to reproduce them sustainably in other 
places in the solar
system. At the same time, the project seeks to raise questions about 
future ecologies in which
phenomena such as the imminent expansion of terrestrial life to other 
places outside the
planet, climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic force us to face a 
scenario that increases
in complexity, making necessary the appearance of a CosmoEcology, that 
could be described
as a field that allows us to think the relationship between natural and 
technical entities of
various scales such as microbes, gravity and machines.
Specifically, the work consisted of generating “a new ecological niche" 
by generating a
breathable atmosphere in the lunar gravity environment. This would be 
the product of the
photosynthetic process of diatoms in which carbon dioxide is captured 
and oxygen is released,
which would be verified by the ability of diatoms to survive 
microgravity conditions. In this
sense, the ultimate goal of the project was to generate living 
conditions beyond the limits of the
biosphere.

Virtual room: 
https://uchile.zoom.us/j/89046359858?pwd=dURFTjIzbXU0NkNpdGFZb0sxRVZJdz09 
<https://uchile.zoom.us/j/89046359858?pwd=dURFTjIzbXU0NkNpdGFZb0sxRVZJdz09>

Rene A. Mendez
Seminar Coordinator
DAS/UChile - rmendez en uchile.cl <mailto:rmendez en uchile.cl>

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Saludos,

Alejandro Leal Obreque
Departamento de Astronomía
FCFM - UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE
22 977 1154
aleal en das.uchile.cl <mailto:aleal en das.uchile.cl>
www.das.uchile.cl <http://www.das.uchile.cl/>



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