Art Center at Night

Art Center at Night

What are spacecraft? How do they work? What do they do? How do their motions look? What roads do they follow? How do they connect with our everyday public spaces and activities? CLICK TO VIEW MOVIE

We have new senses, many of them originally developed for space exploration. How are we affected by the ability to see in radio "light"? The infra-red? Ultra-violet? Gamma radiation? How do these new senses work? What are they telling us?

We live on a rare and fragile life-sustaining planet, the companion of an average star orbiting a galaxy's central, identifiable, black-hole. A wide-angle, precisely focused, perspective of our situation is not only an appropriate, but a necessary underpinning, to the way we design our homes, our buildings, our transportation, and our communications. All very important.

But it doesn't even stop there. We are encountering new worlds, and we humans are in the extraordinary position today to be seeing them for the first time!

The course is a highly interactive, high-fidelity survey of disciplines and projects involved in interplanetary flight. It is conducted using a variety of techniques, including visuals, design-based learning, hands-on physics, brainstorming, lecture, demonstrations, guest speakers, and lots more. No credit means no tests, no mandatory assignments... only a 3-hour-per-week time commitment.

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