Join the Aurelia Institute in the Museum’s Alaska Airlines Education Center for an interactive, family workshop on designing a home in zero gravity.
How do we design habitats, furniture, and other objects for zero-g? What might “home” look like in low Earth orbit? Aurelia Institute’s Sana Sharma and the Museum’s Daniela Robles explore what it’s currently like to live in space and how we might design and build environments that make space feel like “home,” such as the TESSERAE pavilion, now on display as part of the Museum’s Home Beyond Earth exhibition.
Participants will design and build their own habitats and interiors, either to take home with them or to add to the Museum’s community space habitat.
All ages are welcome to participate. Family Workshops are designed to encourage families of all kinds to work and learn together while exploring the worlds of aviation and space.
Workshop Details
Date: Thursday, December 5, 2024
Time: 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Location: Alaska Airlines Aerospace Education Center in the T.A. Wilson Great Gallery
This event occurs during December's Free First Thursday evening when admission is FREE from 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM.
Sana Sharma Biography
Sana Sharma is a designer and researcher specializing in zero gravity habitats and interiors. She is a Co-Founder and Chief Design Officer at Aurelia Institute, a non-profit space architecture R&D lab. Sana leads Aurelia’s first foray into full-scale space architecture through the design of space habitat concepts and interiors showcasing what life in space may look like in the future. Sana previously held design innovation roles at IBM Quantum, Watson Health, and the Broad Institute. She is a research affiliate with the MIT Space Exploration Initiative where she leads the Astronaut Ethnography Project, which captures and distills the human-centered insights from spacefaring individuals. Sana earned her BA in Architecture at Yale University, and a Master of Design + Technology from Harvard GSD.
