Noah's ark : an improbable space survival kit (bok, flexband, english) Arvinius+Orfeus Publishing

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Having survival kits used in Apollo and Mercury space missions as inspiration, the artist book Noah s Ark An Improbable Space Survival Kit advances a set of conceptual and artistic tools to be used in a crisis situation our present times and to imagine the future. The accelerated rhythm of global climate change, vanishing bio resources and the effects of the Anthropocene pose the urgency of survival in stronger and stronger terms. What are the possible scenarios to be followed? Nowadays, leaving the Earth and colonising outer space is gradually becoming a potential alternative reality. The unknown cosmos is gradually turned into a world to be seen, grasped, explored and inhabited. The Artemis Moon Mission is scheduled for 2024. Worlds, potentially hosting life or capable of sustaining it, are being envisioned and searched for; exoplanets are discovered; self-sustainable space habitats are imagined. Contemporary Noah s Arks are designed, human life prolongation is sought for, and Milita

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