TALK + SCREENING:

DOUGLAS TRUMBULL +2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY

Thursday, March 18, 2010: 7 PM

A talk with special effects legend Douglas Trumbull (2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Blade Runner) followed by a screening of Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece of science fiction cinema on the massive 56’ concert hall screen.

TALK:

INHABITING OTHER WORLDS: MICROGRAVITY, PERCEPTION, PHYSIOLOGY & DESIGN

Thursday, March 25, 2010: 6 PM

A panel organized by the School of Architecture at Rensselaer with Rachel Armstrong, MD, Heidi DeBlock, MD, Ted Krueger, and Deepak Vashishth, PhD marking the opening of a student exhibition resulting from a studio dedicated to designing a medical station for a NASA lunar module.

SCREENING:

UNFICTION SERIES: MAN ON WIRE

Thursday, April 8, 2010: 7:30 PM

An Academy Award-winning documentary about Phillipe Petit’s daring and defiant tightrope walk between the Twin Towers, which became known as the “artistic crime of the century.”

EXHIBIT:

EXTRATERRESTRIAL MEDICAL WORKSTATION

March 18–April 10, 2010

Students from the School of Architecture and Department of Biomedical Engineering at Rensselaer imagine a medical center on the moon, in an exhibit of design studies commissioned by NASA’s Habitability and Human Factors Branch. These design proposals anticipate the clinical and research protocols that will be used on the moon, and perhaps beyond. The best of them will be incorporated into a full-scale prototype lunar module that will be tested in the Arizona desert in August 2010.