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Starliner: A beleaguered spacecraft
Dec 18, 2024by Susmita Mohanty Dec 18, 2024
In the sixth essay in our space design series, STIRship Enterprise, Dr Susmita Mohanty focuses on Boeing's CST-100 Starliner and its botched mission.
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'The Future is Present' tells the story of new media pioneers Mobile Image
Aug 23, 2024by Manu Sharma Aug 23, 2024
In an interview with STIR, the co-authors Philip Glahn and Cary Levine discuss the continued relevance of the ambitious and understudied art collective.
Moondust meets technology in the new LUNAR 1,622 watch collection
Nov 13, 2023by Pooja Suresh Hollannavar Nov 13, 2023
The Belgium watchmaker company Col&MacArthur literally encapsulates moondust in its new watches to create timepieces beyond time.
Soyuz: the world’s most reliable human spacecraft
Mar 10, 2023by Susmita Mohanty Mar 10, 2023
In the fifth essay in our space design series, STIRship Enterprise, Dr Susmita Mohanty focuses on Soyuz, a series of spacecraft, designed for the 1960s Soviet space program.
Juliana Cerqueira Leite's sculptures reclaim female body from the clutches of patriarchy
Dec 20, 2022by Dilpreet Bhullar Dec 20, 2022
Brazilian-American sculptor Juliana Cerqueira Leite's art practice emerges from the intersection of performance and fine arts to defy the conventional notions around bodies.
Shenzhou: The star of China’s human space program
Dec 13, 2022by Susmita Mohanty Dec 13, 2022
The fourth essay in our space design series, STIRship Enterprise, focuses on the manned spacecraft Shenzhou by China and its significance in the country’s space race.
Dragon: A crew and cargo ferry to the space station
Nov 12, 2022by Susmita Mohanty Nov 12, 2022
In the third essay in our space design series, STIRship Enterprise, Dr. Susmita Mohanty focuses on the spacecraft Dragon by SpaceX and NASA.
Luminaries of our times – Philippe Starck
Oct 28, 2022by Sonal Shah Oct 28, 2022
STIR speaks with some of the greatest icons of our times – with 200 ongoing projects and over 10,000 creations under his belt, 73-year-old Philippe Starck is unstoppable.
New Shepard: A tourist rocket for suborbital jaunts
Mar 17, 2022by Susmita Mohanty Mar 17, 2022
In the second essay in our space design series, STIRship Enterprise, Dr. Susmita Mohanty focuses on human space ferries made by government agencies and private firms.
Studio Emergence proposes an astronomy inspired planetarium in south India
Jan 26, 2022by Devanshi Shah Jan 26, 2022
The Mumbai-based practice used the recently-caught images of the Black Hole by NASA as a reference to create the abstract yet geometric structure in Visakhapatnam.
NASA and JPL-Caltech's space telescope posters celebrate exoplanet exploration
Jan 16, 2022by Anmol Ahuja Jan 16, 2022
A series of colourful posters marking the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope from NASA convert far flung galactic pursuits into graphic design.
To the Moon, Mars, and beyond: Innovative space architecture projects from 2021
Dec 12, 2021by Jerry Elengical Dec 12, 2021
STIR presents some of the most exciting space design projects - from vehicles to entire settlements - that share a vision of how humanity can settle on other worlds.
A reusable rocket plane named VSS Unity
Nov 03, 2021by Susmita Mohanty Nov 03, 2021
In the first essay in our brand-new series on space design, STIRship Enterprise, our columnist and space expert Dr. Susmita Mohanty focuses on human space ferries made by government space agencies and private space companies.
STIRship Enterprise: a special series on space architecture and design
Nov 03, 2021by Susmita Mohanty Nov 03, 2021
In STIR’s new flagship series, spaceship designer and entrepreneur Dr. Susmita Mohanty travels the cosmos with an expert’s lens to decode the future of life in space through design.
Hookie launches 'Tardigrade', a drivable lunar exploration vehicle
Oct 21, 2021by STIRworld Oct 21, 2021
The prototype by German motorcycle builder uses latest innovation and technology to actualise humanity's utopian desires to explore the various cosmic surfaces of the solar system.
BIG and ICON unveil Mars Dune Alpha - a 3D-printed habitat for the red planet
Aug 19, 2021by Jerry Elengical Aug 19, 2021
Developed as part of NASA’s CHAPEA simulation program at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, USA, the structure will aid in research into manned missions to the Martian surface.
Mars' first planned city Nüwa is resilient and self-sustaining
Apr 15, 2021by Devanshi Shah Apr 15, 2021
ABIBOO Studio, an award-winning architectural firm, and an international team of scientists from SONet propose an actionable and economical solution to urban settlement on Mars.
Interstellar Lab's BioPod prepares for plant cultivation on the moon
Jan 28, 2021by Shreeparna Chatterjee Jan 28, 2021
Revealed at the Future Investment Initiative in Riyad, the inflatable, environmentally controlled plant cultivation pod is intended to sustain flora beyond the earth’s surface.
ICON, BIG and SEArch+ reveal ‘Project Olympus’ as 3D-printed homes on moon
Oct 09, 2020by Zohra Khan Oct 09, 2020
The initiative funded by NASA aims to develop a 3D printed infrastructure on the moon, constructed autonomously using indigenous materials of the lunar surface.
PriestmanGoode pioneers space travel with Spaceship Neptune
Aug 31, 2020by STIRworld Aug 31, 2020
Designed for Space Perspective, Spaceship Neptune will shuttle space explorers and research payloads to the edge of space in a high-performance balloon and pressurised capsule.
Space-inspired village EBIOS reimagines sustainable living on Earth and Mars
Aug 24, 2020by STIRworld Aug 24, 2020
In 2021, Mojave Desert, California will harbour the first self-sufficient village, built using space technology and developed by Paris-based aerospace company Interstellar Lab.
Vibha Galhotra’s ‘Beyond the Blue’ in New York explores the ideas of cycle of evolution
Apr 17, 2020by Rahul Kumar Apr 17, 2020
Artist Vibha Galhotra employed traditional processes and urban media at her solo show in New York that referenced the impact of human actions on the ecology.
Envisioning 2001: A Space Odyssey, an exhibit at The Museum of Moving Image, NY
Mar 16, 2020by Vladimir Belogolovsky Mar 16, 2020
Vladimir Belogolovsky reviews the show at New York’s Museum of the Moving Image, devoted entirely to Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece - the futurist sci-fi film Space Odyssey.
New media artist Yuliia Korienkova creates tech-enabled artwork, inspired by the future
Jan 23, 2020by Shraddha Nair Jan 23, 2020
Abu Dhabi-based Korienkova, fascinated by the development of robots and artificial intelligence, likes to capture the rise of the same in her artworks.
Jitish Kallat showcases ‘Terranum Nuncius’, an immersive solo exhibit in Mumbai
Jan 15, 2020by Rahul Kumar Jan 15, 2020
The contemporary Indian artist’s new show at the Famous Studios in Mumbai constitutes two significant works that revolve around the theme of the unknown and alien.
Studio Drift pays tribute to the 50-year milestone of the Apollo 11 mission
Jul 18, 2019by Zohra Khan Jul 18, 2019
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of NASA’s mission that landed man on moon, Studio Drift creates a swirl of drones backed by live performance by Duran Duran.
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