This Architect Is Redesigning Humanity for Life in Space

Space Café Podcast - Navigating Our Interplanetary Ambitions

🚀 The Cosmic Scoop

In this expansive and deeply human conversation, Phnam Bagley challenges everything we think we know about architecture. From floating tables to engineered space hearts, she reimagines what it means to design for a future where gravity is optional and emotion is essential.

Together, we explore the untold questions of life in space:

• What is a “table” without gravity?
• Can architecture heal isolation?
• Do space-born humans need new organs?
• And above all: Are we building habitats—or are we building ourselves anew?

This isn’t just about design. It’s existential. And it’s urgent.

💬 Quotable Insights

💐 “You don’t design for the void. You design for the soul inside it.”
💐 “Maybe you don’t need a flat table. Maybe you need a soft, spherical one with holes to hold your apple in zero-g.”
💐 “If the ground disappears beneath you, maybe it’s time to build one inside yourself.”
💐 “The aesthetics of survival is still survival.”

🕰️ Cosmic Timeline (Timestamps)

• [00:02:12] The O’Neill Ring: cities in the sky and funding the impossible
• [00:06:02] Rethinking furniture and spatial logic in microgravity
• [00:12:00] Microgravity, partial gravity, and the risks of existing too far from Earth
• [00:18:08] The window to nothingness, and why we still need to see home
• [00:29:20] Function. Aesthetics. Value. The true holy trinity of design
• [00:31:05] AI in space design: from mood lighting to biometric ecosystems
• [00:38:46] Bioprinted hearts, sci-fi organs, and the ethics of conception in orbit
• [00:45:43] “The human software” – the greatest unknown of all
• [00:54:09] Would she go to space? Yes—but only with a drill
• [00:56:21] Music for the Space Traveler: Björk – Crystalline (Biophilia)

🎧 Music for the Aspiring Space Traveler's Playlist

🎵 Björk – Crystalline (from Biophilia)
“Because if you’re going to float, do it in fractal wonder.”

🔗 Links to Explore

• NonFictionDesign
• Vladimir Tsiolkovsky’s space architecture sketches
• Museum of Jurassic Technology, Los Angeles
• Vast Space – Haven One
• Space Architecture Foundation
• Björk – Biophilia

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