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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Terraforming"”.
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The Terraforming of Mars as Seen Through the Lens of Biocentrism and Ecocentrism
… guide human space exploration in general and the terraforming and colonisation of Mars in particular. The first part involves the provision of the necessary background information: the history and motives behind human space exploration and Mars colonisation, the reasons why anthropocentric …
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The Mothership: Multiplanetary Becomings and Reproducing Worlds
… future in which we will build new worlds, terraforming environments both physically and ideologically. These “moon to mars” missions mark a new era of deep space exploration, the first in fifty years since the Apollo missions in the 1970s. This time, NewSpace venture capitalists are playing …
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“Soon it will be a concrete jungle”: Perceptions and Projected Impacts of ‘El Proyecto Techos de Esperanza’ in Bastimentos, Panamá
… destructive land use practices have incited terraforming and hydrological alterations which this study projects will expose resettled residents to environmentally hazardous conditions amplified by key regional climate change risks, threaten cultural subsistence ties, and limit local adaptive …
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Constructing the virtual as a social form
… real estate speculation, urban development and terraforming patterns. Yet there is a mismatch between the logic and the purpose of these virtual environments, which is a collective, and the presence among others, unencumbered with immediate contexts and limitations. This thesis theorizes on …
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Allocentric Design: Critical Practice in the Age of Radical Technological and Environmental Change
… practice and Benjamin Bratton’s conception of terraforming as a means of de-centering the human in geopolitics. If critical design practice in the Anthropocene must abandon the egocentric, anthropocentric perspective, the penultimate chapter investigates how an allocentric framework can embrace …