Inhabiting Extraterrestrial Space - Data set of 477 images

Data set of 477 images on Space Habitat Abstracted from the research project « Habiter l’espace extraterrestre » HEAD-Genève Partenaire scientifique : L’Observatoire de l’Espace, le laboratoire culturel du CNES (Paris) Projet financé par le Fonds national suisse de la recherche scientifique (FNS) website : habitat-extraterretre.ch Abstract of the project Objects conceived and realized to inhabit extraterrestrial space are arousing a strong resurgence of interest with regards to the ecological questions as well as the economic issues they cover. Thus, "Leaving earth" has become a contemporary reality often mentioned but whose understanding is, however, rarely based on scientific research dedicated to space or extraterrestrial habitats and remains most often far from a specific basis, whether historical, material or cultural. The two historical and cultural lines followed by this research start from the same point: the implementation of a corpus of space research images made up of documents produced within the framework of authenticated works, supported by state institutions at an international level (Space Agencies) belonging to an official voted project and specifying one or more elements of an inhabited space object. At the margins of this framework, we have opened this corpus of documents to "pioneer" engineers who worked before the advent of the space age in 1957 and whose influence will be lasting on its future developments. The corpus of images from the fields of space communication, architecture, cinema and visual arts, are based on proven links between the objects and images they gather and those of space research. They are also opened to other images and objects, whose connections stem from these first connections. The relationships of these images and objects can be queried through descriptors applying to all the fields of the database. They ensure a given research to have transversal or multidisciplinary dimensions. Each corpus generated by these researches is a scientific material of knowledge related to the cultural history of space habitat. This research main goal is to enable researchers from the human sciences as well as artists to seize these corpuses and to contribute in the writing of this history. Research team Christophe Kihm, Associate Professor, HEAD - Geneva, HES-SO (principal applicant) Floriane Germain, Doctor, PHD in museum studies, mediation, heritage, space archives expert (scientific assistant), Jill Gasparina, Assistant Profes