Design your own interstellar generation ship

Really: Design an interstellar ‘generation ship’ to spend decades among the stars with Project Hyperion competition

Rather than focusing on the design of the propulsion system, or structural design of the ship, researchers are specifically interested in answering what an ideal space habitat architecture and social system would look like for such a journey. For the competition, a team of at least one architectural designer, one engineer, and one social scientist is tasked with designing the habitat of a generation ship, including its architecture and system of societal organization.

Should you happen to have friends in the required professions, here you go: a neat hobby.

One word of caution I think ought to be offered to participants: No matter what you think humans ought to be like, all the people on your generation ship will be actual humans, with human instincts that constrain what will succeed as far as societal organization goes.

No doubt somebody with a primary interest in architecture could offer a similar caution about that. Hey, here’s a suggestion: Ditch the Brutalist aesthetic and go for … what? Anything else, really. I would personally get a kick out of designing a generation ship with Classical Greek temple-style architecture!

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