From 7 to 9 July, the much anticipated Space Renaissance Art & Science Festival came to a close in Berlin Germany. Nearly one hundred in-person participants joined a larger virtual audience at the Archenhold Observatory for a celebration and exchange of ideas surrounding civilian space development and the Space Renaissance.More than 1000 people already viewed the sessions on the Space Renaissance YouTube channel.
In total, the program spanned three full days and saw over 60 speakers/artists presentations.
The full Acta of the Festival -– with links to all the speeches on YouTube –- can be seen on the SRI website.
Day one of the Festival, Philosophy and Policy Day, was structured around a panel on Civilian Space Development. Distinguished speakers from around the world gave lectures on topics ranging from theology to policy to law and STEM.Among others, Adriano V. Autino presented “A feasible utopia for 21st Century”, restructuring the UN 17 SDGs for the sake of true sustainability, by the addition of an 18th SDG: bootstrapping Civilian Space Development.
Giuseppe Reibaldi presented the Moon Village Association program. Helga ZeppLaRouche talked about the actuality of the Krafft Ehricke vision. Jan Woerner (former Director General of ESA), Michelle Hanlon (President of the US National Space Society), Bob Zubrin (Founder of the Mars Society) and others addressed the critical topic: what to do to kick-off civilian space development before 2030.
Day two, Astronauts and Civilians, Science & Tech Day, convened a group experts to fill both a panel on Space Habitats and a panel on Analog Training. Various interactive exhibits were interspersed among the panel activities, notably including a moon rover which participants got the opportunity to drive!
Bernard Foing (President of Space Renaissance International and chair of Euro- MoonMars) chaired the two panels, and gave an excel-lent overview of the analog training around planet Earth.
Space Night brought the second day to a close with a barbecue and night observation with the the Observatory’s giant telescope.
The ensuing morning brought Space Art Day, which gathered artists working with space related concepts from all over earth to share their work. Barbara King, Priscilla Thomas, Mary Kuiper, Cheryl Gallagher, Steve Salmon, and many others, presented their beautiful works, and discussed the role of art in space.
In related space-art news, SRI is proud to announce a joint project with both the Mars Society and the Planetarium Berlin Foundation: “Art Goes to Mars” Art Goes to Mars aims to collect and encourage the submission of 100 art-works to “lay the first cornerstone for a library on Mars.” The ultimate goal will be to ensure that Art follows mankind to the Red Planet. Link to the project site below.
In collaboration with the Mars society and the planetarium Berlin Foundation, SRI is proud to present: “Art Goes to Mars” The sheer magnitude of involvement and generosity that our sponsors and volunteers put into to this event was incredible.
The 2022 Berlin festival stood and stands on the backs of contributors from all over the world who send us their time and resources and expect nothing in return. To those men and women, we are forever grateful for your help. Thank you! To the Stiftung Planetarium and the Support Association of the Archenhold- Observatory and the Zeiss-Grand – Planetarium, we would like to extend our warmest thanks for arranging access to the Archenhold Observatory during the Berlin Festival. The venue made the festival particularly special for everyone involved, and we feel so very lucky to have had such a marvelous backdrop for the event!
THANK YOU! We are who supports us.
Half a page already spent on our gratitude, and yet more thanks are in order! Sabine Heinz, Vice President of SRI and President of the SRI Germany Chapter, was the project manager of this event. She put in countless hours of work to ensure that the SRI Art & Science Festival came to fruition. Thank you so much Sabine! A big effort was also provided by A. Autino (Founder, Ambassador, Strategical Director and former President of SRI), who does the organizational and technical work on the websites, social networks, communication, supported now by a few young interns. Thank you for all the hard work Adriano!
MOVING TOWARDS PROGRESS.
TOGETHER.
A special thanks goes out to our partners and sponsors:
- Stiftung Planetarium Berlin (Berlin Planetarium Foundation)
- ITACCUS – Committee for Cultural Utilisation of Space
- Society for Culture and Space e. V. (Gesellschaft für Kultur- und Raumfahrt e. V.)
- The Mars Society
- SZ-Rechtsanwälte Steinhäußer & Zieschang
- LUNEX EuroMoonMars
- Support Association of the Archenhold-Observatory and the Zeiss Gross Planetarium Berlin e. V.
- GALIX – Global Alliance for International Collaboration in Space
Download this Newsletter in a graphic pdf format, with many images from the Festival.
Space Renaissance France (French Chapter of SRI) 
Space Renaissance USA, Inc. (USA Chapter of SRI)
Space Renaissance (Italian Chapter of SRI)
Space Renaissance India (Indian Chapter of SRI)
African Space Renaissance (African Chapter of SRI)
Space Renaissance Academy
Space Renaissance Initiative Group