InterPlanetary Transmissions: Stardust
InterPlanetary Transmissions: Stardust
This volume is a record of the Santa Fe Institute’s second InterPlanetary Festival, nicknamed Stardust, held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in June of 2019. The InterPlanetary Festival fuses an exploration of complex systems and technological innovation with music, film, art, food, drinks, and more.
During the Summer of Stardust, as the world observed the fiftieth anniversary of the momentous Apollo 11 Moon landing, the Festival celebrated human ingenuity and pondered what the next half-century might hold. Conversations centered on building other worlds — imaginatively in literature, experimentally in simulation and games, and literally in architectural design. Attendees and panelists wrestled with topics as wide-ranging as time, the future of cities, and the meaning of intelligence.
In this book, transcripts of the Festival panel discussions, each paired with new introductions by contributors including physicist Sean Carroll, poet, artist, and curator Anaïs Duplan, and speculative-fiction writer Rebecca Roanhorse, commemorate the creativity and insight generated at this one-of-a-kind cosmic event.
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Table of Contents
Preface: Red Thread
Caitlin L. McShea
Chapter 1: Zen & the Art of Space Exploration
Introduced by Michael Clark
Chapter 2: Extremophile Cities
Introduced by Nicholas de Monchaux
Chapter 3: Building Life from Scratch
Introduced by David Baum
Chapter 4: Game Design
Introduced by Frank Lantz
Chapter 5: World Building
Introduced by Rebecca Roanhorse
Chapter 6: Time
Introduced by Sean Carroll
Chapter 7: Diverse Intelligence
Introduced by David C. Krakauer
Chapter 8: Creative Black Futures
Introduced by Anaïs Duplan
Video Teaser
“Extremophile Cities” panelist Ann Pendleton-Jullian, an architect, writer, and educator, muses about the complex nature of cities in this teaser for Stardust. Might cities, and not humans, be the most successful lifeform on the planet?
Original Artwork
InterPlanetary Transmissions: Stardust contains nine original woven images, created by the staff of the InterPlanetary Festival and the SFI Press. This video discusses the thought behind these weavings, how they connect to the content of this book, and show how they were created.
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