Program: Round Table

ON NANOSATELLITES - WHAT ARE THEY FOR? WHAT DOES IT MEAN IN A NEXT FUTURE. WHAT TO DO WITH SPACE DEBRIS?

Groups engaged in the production of nanosatellites discuss the engineering of nanosatellites, technologies for satellites deorbiting (disintegration of the satellite into the atmosphere to prevent the formation of space debris) and nanosatellite constellations soon.

With CubeDesign / INPE, Antares (UNICAMP) and Zenith Aerospace (USP)

SACI-E / ARTISTIC RESIDENCES IN INPE

Artists who did an artist residency at INPE 2019/2020 talk about their experience at INPE, their work during the residency, their research and their future projects.

By Karina Karim and Pitter Rocha

TALKING WITH THE PIONEERS OF BRAZILIAN ART / SCIENCE AND SPACE ART

Three pioneering artists of art/technology and space art in Brazil talk about their trajectory and current research, in addition to telling episodes of space history from the point of view of Brazilian art.

By Artur Matuck, Guto Lacaz and Wagner Garcia

ARCHAEASTRONOMY AND / OR CULTURAL ASTRONOMY

A dive into indigenous astronomy with an ethnoastronomy specialist who built a mobile planetarium that shows the sky of Brazil's Indians in indigenous and non-indigenous schools.

By Germano Bruno Afonso

SCIENTIFIC FICTION, SPECULATIVE PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENCE - A FEMINIST PERSPECTIVE

Three science and science fiction researchers speak of feminism in science fiction and science. What criteria, what impasses? Example of female protagonists in science fiction literature, role and missions of women in space sciences. Feminist sci-fi and technoscience in Brazil, how is it?

By Anastasia Guidi Itakazu, Alice Gabriel and Claudia Nicoli

BRASILEIRXS ARTISTS TALK ABOUT ART AND SPACE SCIENCES - MEETING / COLLISION

Three artists talk about their works with space arts, telling their trajectory, showing their works, sharing their discoveries and difficulties.

By Paula Scamparini, Caio Fazolin, Denise Alves Rodrigues

AFROFUTURISM AND BLACK FEMINISM IN LITERATURE AND SCIENTIFIC FICTION CINEMA CHARACTERS AND MISSIONS

Two science fiction experts talk about Afrofuturism - a cultural movement that operates with futuristic themes from the post-colonial condition, rescuing images of the future of traditional Afro-descendant peoples.

By Lu Ain Zaila and Kênia Freitas

XENOPHILY AND XENOPOLITICS IN SPACE ART / SCIENCE

An international view on space art from the perspective of two experts in the field. Adriana Knouf, considered the first transgender to send a work of art out of Earth, tells of her experiences, talks about xenology and alien culture, and shows some of her main research in the area of space art. Ewen Chardonnet, one of the creators of Autonomous Astronauts, gives us historical insight into space art, about his research as a critic and curator in the area, and talks about xenopolitics and alien capitalism.

By Adriana Knouf (USA) and Ewen Chardonnet (France)

SPACE LAW

What is the history of Space Law? How does it work? Who leads? How does it work in Brazil? Which institutions judge spatial processes? What licenses do you need to place a satellite or probe in orbit? Who is entitled to Space? How do the current militarization projects of Space work and how is this seen from the point of view of the Law?

By Marcia Alvarenga / INPE, Inez Lopes Matos Carneiro de Farias (UNB) and Ingrid Barbosa Oliveira / UNISANTOS

ACCELERATION AND CLIMATE CHANGE

A scientist and a philosopher talk about climate change, utopias and dystopias that are presented in the current context, the political and economic movement concerning ecology. The motto of the meeting is the ideas around Accelerationism and Climate Change.

With Antonio Donato Nobre /scientist at INPE e Hilan Bensusan - philosopher at UNB