Moontrip 2019

Brand Griffin is the Program Manager for a Single-Person Spacecraft at Genesis Engineering Solutions. Before joining Genesis, he supported NASA's Advanced Concepts Office at the Marshall Spaceflight Center where he participated in the analysis and design of lunar bases and deep space habitats. Formerly, he worked with Boeing as the lead configurator for Space Station Freedom and as their Habitation Module Manager. Among his innovative designs are an open-cockpit lunar hopper, wheeled-landing pressurized rover, a horizontal lunar lander, and the Skylab II deep space habitat. His next generation space suit was on display for 10 years at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum. Mr. Griffin has authored over 35 technical publications and numerous articles in books and periodicals. He was co-chair of the System Architecture and Mission Design Department at International Space University and was on the faculties of Tulane University, Rice University, and the University of Washington. Mr. Griffin holds BArch, MArch, and MFA degrees, and won the Prix de Rome Fellowship in architecture. He is a pilot and has 50 hours neutral buoyancy space suit experience.

Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta (1957), architect, space architect and urban planner works on neurosciences, neuroaesthetics (since 1985) and space-time cognition. Active member of the New York Academy of Sciences, of the American Society for the Advancement of Science, of the Academy of Arts, Sciences and Letters of Paris (Gold Medal of the Academy in 2017), of the Architecture and Urban Planning Council of Brazil, of the Order of Architects of Portugal and of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics among others. He is Awards Sector Chairman of the AIAA's Space Architecture Technical Committee. With more than eighty books published worldwide, he is present in the Universalis Encyclopedia (Britannica, 1991, paper) among many others. In 1980 he coined the "virtual architecture" method, and in that same year he created the first virtual planet in history, anticipating Second Life in more than twenty years - for which he won an AICA, UNESCO, Council of Europe prize in 1993. He started researching and working on space architecture in 2000. In 2011 he created and directed a space architecture course at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, the first in the country and considered the second in the world. He is professor regularly invited by several institutions like the universities of New York, Georgetown, Tsukuba, Minho, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Monte Verità Foundation and the Technion Institute. His website, started in 1993, is www.emanuelpimenta.net

Mark Kerr is an architect with the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) in the Seattle District and a Lieutenant Commander (LDCR) in the reserve component of the Navy Civil Engineer Corps. Mr. Kerr has worked for USACE for 8 years and has served in the Navy Reserves for 16 years, which included deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. In addition, LDCR Kerr deployed to Haiti where he served as an Engineering Planning Officer conducting fieldwork after the 2010 Earthquake. In 2013, LDCR Kerr led a group of Seabees and Marines in construction of two emergency evacuation centers for the Yup’ik tribe of Newtok, Alaska in the event of flooding from the Ninglick River. Additional professional experience include serving as a crew member for NASA’s Human Exploration Research Analog (HERA XII); work as an ECLSS Engineer at Bigelow Aerospace; an instructor of Human Factors in Design at the University of New Mexico; an attendee to the 2002 European Space Agency, Lunar Base Design Workshop in the Netherlands; a research technician in pulmonary physiology at the University of Washington; a hyperbaric technician at Virginia Mason Medical Center; and, two summers at the South Pole Station in Antarctica. Mr. Kerr is also a Registered Architect in the State of New Mexico and a Fellow of The Explorers Club. With a background in design, construction, and human factors in extreme environments, Mr. Kerr’s background and interest closely relates to outer space for the purpose of creating, as closely as possible, simulations in which to understand the complex factors involved. His goals are to continually blend his passion for exploration, specifically space exploration and to aggressively engage in analogue locations such as mountains, caves, deserts, Polar Regions, oceans, and other intense analog environments. Mr. Kerr holds a Bachelor of Science in History from Iowa State University, a Space Systems Certificate from the Naval Postgraduate School, a Master of Arts in National Security and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College, and a Master of Architecture from the University of New Mexico where his Master’s Thesis, “Architecture in the Exploration of Isidis Planitia” focused on a single habitat as a greater part of mobile strategy for exploration of the Martian surface. ACADEMIC 2018 Master of Arts, National Security and Strategic Studies, Naval War College, Newport, RI 2010 Space Systems Certificate, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA 2004 Master of Architecture, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA 1993 Bachelor of Science, History, Iowa State University, Ames, IA

.Barbara Imhof is an internationally active space architect, design researcher and educator. Her projects deal with spaceflight parameters such as with living with limited resources, minimal and transformable spaces, resource-conserving systems; all aspects imperative to sustainability. Barbara Imhof is the co-founder and CEO of LIQUIFER Systems Group, an interdisciplinary team comprising engineers, architects, designers and scientists. Projects, she has led for LIQUIFER include the design of the first transportable European space simulation habitat SHEE (Self-deployable Habitat for Extreme Environments), the design of sampling tools for human-robot collaboration in project Moonwalk. Adding to her experience about space simulations she served as simulation astronaut for the project Moonwalk’s Mars demonstrations in Rio Tinto, Spain in 2016. Another path Barbara has been following since the 2000s are biomimetic designs for architectural structures such as in the projects Biornametics and Growing As Building. LIQUIFER’s partners and clients belong to internationally renowned institutions and space agencies.

BIM Architecture expert, Architect, Space architect, Designer. Member of architecture and culture-working group of the Moon Village Association (MVA). Member of 'Le Réseau disruptif sur les architectures extrêmes' in France (RSTARCHES), Member of space architect.org, Expert member of 'COMMITTEE FOR THE CULTURAL UTILIZATION OF SPACE (ITACCUS)', Founder and project manager of BiB Lab.

I transitioned from a career in the fine arts as a stage designer to a career in aerospace engineering seven years ago. Straddling those two worlds has taught me to be open to and seek out unorthodox design methodologies built around intensely collaborative and creative environments. There's no reason the process of design cannot be as vibrant and colorful for engineering as it is for the arts. As an aerospace engineer, I have seen this first-hand through the invaluable experience of working with small teams on rapid spacecraft formulation, nano-satellite development, model-based-systems-engineering, and launch vehicle design. It's thrilling to support any design-focused project that contributes to our future in space, builds on the success of an interdisciplinary team, and delivers a product that is both a challenge and an inspiration. Currently I dedicate the majority of my time as a lead engineer to the development of the booster stage for the Firefly Alpha launch vehicle.

Anne-Marlene is a space and extreme environments architect from the Swiss Federal Polytechnic Institute in Lausanne (EPFL), where she studied architecture and space technologies. She has worked on various projects, including satellite design, Mars human exploration mission planning and habitat design, and is currently working on space logistics optimization.