Abstract
This essay moves forward in time with spacecraft. It departs from another text: “Zero Atmosphere Architecture” described four points for spaceships past: as a fusion of architecture and human–computer interaction (HCI), as a product of fact/fiction transfers, as steeped in protectionism for Earth’s atmosphere, and as implying new scales for architectural thinking (Geiger 2015).
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Here we must also consider the various ongoing, private corporate development of high-altitude aircraft to deliver broadband internet across entire continents.
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For a documentation on this project, see www.inventinginteractive.com/2010/05/26/remembering-quokka/ (accessed July 15, 2015).
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The Long Now foundation is a project initiated in 1996 by Stewart Brand to “provide a counterpoint to today’s accelerating culture and help make long-term thinking more common. We hope to creatively foster responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years.” One of its many projects is the construction of a 10,000-year clock.
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“Black Sky Thinking,” Rachel Armstrong in conversation with Debbi Evans in Libertine, Winter 2013.
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Matheson, R., The Incredible Shrinking Man, film script (1957).
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Ibid.
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Ibid.
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Summerson, J. Heavenly Mansions and Other Essays on Architecture, pp. 1–28. WW Norton, New York (1998).
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Ibid.
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Kant, E. The Critique of Judgment, 2nd edn revised, translated by J.H. Bernard. Macmillan, London (1914).
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Geiger, J., Morris, M. (2017). Constructing worlds. In: Armstrong, R. (eds) Star Ark. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31042-8_15
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