Space Renaissance Italia

24
Jun
2014
The SRI international Congress to be held in July 2015 (SRI Newsletter)

The SRI international Congress to be held in July 2015 (SRI Newsletter)

The SRI Executive held a meeting Sunday June 22nd, and decided that the second international congress will be held in July 2015, as it was scheduled by the first congress in 2011. It was unanimously agreed that several relevant reasons exist, to undertake the congress works, not only to respect the four years frequency established by our statute.
First of all the radical innovation in our strategic plan. SRI was born as a philosophical international association, and this is what it is and wants to keep on being. End of 2012, SRI decided to build national chapters, strongly rooted on territory, where members can work together, seeing themselves in face, organizing local events, talking to the people. Nowadays we have a working chapter in Italy, Space Renaissance Italia, a new chapter in the US, Space Renaissance International USA, a chapter on the way to be incorporated in India, Karnataka, and another chapter to be incorporated in UK, Scotland.
Our Theses, written in 2011, need to be updated as well. Many things occurred in the world, confirming our analysis, that expanding civilization into space is an essential condition to its survival: the conflicts for the remaining earthly resources are worsening. Opening the high frontier will allow the advanced countries, thanks to their technology, to “unplug” from the disastrous confrontation with tribal societies, and to become a moral model for the young people of those countries, removing them from the suicidal philosophy of the Jihād, and achieving them to the noble big project to assure new resources, energy and space for the whole civilization.

Read the whole newsletter here: SRI_Newsletter_24062014: The SRI international Congress to be held in July 2015

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12
May
2014
The power of ideas: the messages of the Space Renaissance Italia’ congress – by R. Russo

The power of ideas: the messages of the Space Renaissance Italia’ congress – by R. Russo

The de-growth is an ominous prospect for humanity. The expansion into space is inevitable and urgent. Space tourism: the first mature sector toward civilian astronautics. The multi-culturalism as an essential tool to reach the conscience and to let people understand that space is not that far as it is perceived.

These are some of the conclusions of the Space Renaissance Italia’ national congress, held on May 8th and 9th this year at the Politecnico University of Milano, entitled “Space without frontiers: a greater world is possible!” An unique in its kind event, about which many were skeptic, that instead proved to be a great success. Futurists, scientists, philosophers, engineers, humanists and trans-humanists, technologists, musicians, and writers. And more, communication, television and films experts, as well as students. All of them integrated into the debate, giving rise to a deep cross-fertilization along the thin line of the Space Renaissance philosophy, which sees the expansion of civilization into space the healthiest and urgent solution, and perhaps the only one, to the crisis of growth that our civilization is facing, while the natural resources of our beloved Mother Earth are now insufficient to support its development. Echoing what Konstantin Tsiolkovsky said, humanity has to leave its cradle.

The conference clearly showed that we are now a mature movement, with great potential for growth, byb the way in strong agreement with the Futurists, the Trans-Humanists and with the “anthropic” imperative  proposed by the Italian Institute for the Future, to ensure the long term survival of human civilization.

Read the newsletter here: SRITALIA_Newsletter_12.05.2014-e

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