TED Talk | Is space the “final frontier” — or the perfect place to revolutionize life on Earth? Space architect Ariel Ekblaw reveals how self-assembling structures could build orbiting real estate in space dedicated to solving humanity’s greatest dilemmas on Earth, leading to scientific and medical breakthroughs only possible in zero gravity.
TED Talk | Is space the “final frontier” — or the perfect place to revolutionize life on Earth? Space architect Ariel Ekblaw reveals how self-assembling structures could build orbiting real estate in space dedicated to solving humanity’s greatest dilemmas on Earth, leading to scientific and medical breakthroughs only possible in zero gravity.
WIRED | Off-world agriculture has long seemed experimental, but that could soon change thanks to a collaboration between design firm Heatherwick Studio and the space architecture nonprofit Aurelia Institute.
Newsweek | On the new episode of @Newsweek’s Expanding Space, CEO Ariel Ekblaw talks to @Joshua Rett Miller about Aurelia’s TESSERAE self-assembling space habitats, the shared and different priorities of NASA and commercial space companies, and how the research, engineering, science, and technology that will bring humanity to the Moon and Mars will benefit life on Earth.
Boston Business Journal | Aurelia Institute named among “the launches, funding rounds, new deals, partnerships, awards and more that BostInno has determined puts these startups on the verge of something big.”
The Aurelia team with the life size TESSERAE space habitat mockup
Fabricating and building at the Autodesk Technology Center Boston
Testing zero-g orientation during the Aurelia Horizon 2022 flight
TESSERAE in the ISS cupola — photo taken during the Axiom-1 mission
