Re-imagining plant design to enable off-earth habitation and to improve sustainable food production here on earth.
Re-imagining plant design to enable off-earth habitation and to improve sustainable food production here on earth.
Announced in November 2022, a new research centre, led by the University of Adelaide, will focus international expertise on finding ways to provide the next generation of space explorers with nutritious foods, and the on-demand supply of materials and medicines. The mission of P4S is to re-imagine plant design and bioresource production, through the lens of space, to enable off-Earth habitation and provide transformative solutions to improve on-Earth sustainability. P4S is a major global collaborative transdisciplinary venture partnering 15 academic institutions, five space agencies and enablers, five Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) companies, six education providers, and seven government and technology partners that collectively harness a global fit-for-purpose critical mass not found elsewhere.
when and where
date and time
TUE, OCT 17, 2023
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
location
Cinema Theatre - UTS Building 6
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Our panel of experts will explore how innovations designed for space and new developments in alternative proteins can create a regenerative, circular agriculture system suitable for deep space travel, and also to support a healthy and biodiverse ecosystem here on earth.
