SPACE EXPLORATION: COMMUNITY OF INTERCULTURAL IDENTITY THROUGH MEMORY SHARING.

How can design guide future scenarios of space exploration through systemsactions- visions that continue to create connections that transcend the limits of space and cultural boundaries? As emerges from current trends, in the coming decades, the human presence in space will expand from low Earth orbit to the lunar surface and the crew will be made up not only of astronauts but of new users with heterogeneous purposes and missions. Today, the International Space Station (ISS) is a place of strong cooperation, where boundaries are not defined and people, thanks to long selection processes and shared training, acquire a strong empathy so that cultural differences are not perceived as a limitation. In the future, this balance may change significantly. In fact, the risk of a larger presence of “space travelers” with their short stay, is that the space habitat becomes just a “crossing” space without an identity, without a shared memory, a non-place. The paper investigates how design in synergy with humanistic and technological fields can encourage the creation of a new community not only of interest, but with a shared intercultural identity within these new extreme environments. The research, through a Responsible Advanced Design, is mapping and analyzing which analogic and virtual practices can activate a “memory” in Space habitats capable of developing a system for transferring the experiences of places and emotions from one user to another, beyond the boundary of time and exceeding it, to give continuity to a story and eliminate the meaning that it is just about experiencing the micro-gravity space for oneself.