Culture-space: towards a better understanding of space exploration rationale

Culture-space: towards a better understanding of space exploration rationale

This project brought together a multidisciplinary group across three workshops to ask “how and why do human cultures explore space?” and “what does it say about humankind that we go into space?” so as to develop a cultural centred conceptual framework for the understanding of space exploration. This research network was designed to launch a research enterprise to create a broader account of space exploration, by building the multidisciplinary context and opening up the subject to new research questions that view space technologies from fresh perspectives. Material related to this research project is available in this collection. Despite the museum’s best efforts, we are unable to make these PDF documents fully screen reader accessible.
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Millard, Doug
Agar, Jon
Macauley, William
McCaughrean, Mark
Green, Lucie
Boon, Tim
Dunn, Richard
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English
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    Culture-Space: Workshop One
    (2012-10-04)
    Science Museum Group
    From 31 July – 1 August 2019, museum and arts sector professionals as well as academics from a variety of fields met to discuss the culture of space exploration. They considered what the culture of space is, was and could be, and how this could be displayed in a future space gallery at the Science Museum, London.
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    Culture-Space: Workshop Two
    (2019-12-17)
    Science Museum Group
    From 7–8 October 2019, the Science Museum Group (SMG) and European Space Agency (ESA) hosted museum and arts sector professionals as well as academics to discuss the culture of space exploration. They considered what diversity means in space, for space, and in space-science museum displays at the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) in Noordwijk, Netherlands.
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    Culture-Space: Workshop Three
    (2020-04-22)
    Science Museum Group
    From 21-22 November, the Science Museum Group (SMG) and University College London (UCL) hosted museum and arts sector professionals as well as academics and space scientists to discuss the culture of space exploration. They considered institutional aspects of space exploration, fresh aspects for engaging with the subject and new ways of communicating it to museum audiences. The workshop was held at UCL’s Mullard Space Science Laboratory (MSSL) in Surrey, UK.
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    Final Report: Culture-Space: Towards a better understanding of space exploration
    (2020-06-12)
    Science Museum Group
    Read the final project report ‘Culture-Space: Towards a Better Understanding of Space Exploration’ to find out how a culture-centric approach might be applied in the development of a new space gallery.
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