Abstract
As architects, planners, and engineers develop novel human habitats for living on the Moon and on Mars, they must consider the delicate and dialectic partnership between the human body and the closed-loop architectures that maintain life support in these remote environments. This chapter traces how human waste becomes an anthropological problem in off-world environments. Critical attention to space design illuminates the ways in which categories of pollution, waste and purity shift to imagine new constellations of body, habitat and ecology. Doing so allows one to conceptualise new modes of living in space, but also crucially, how the human body and its waste might be imagined differently on Earth.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Matter Out of Place |
| Subtitle of host publication | Anthropological Explorations of Bodies, Dirt and Morality |
| Editors | Rebecca Lynch, Joseph Calabrese, Roland Littlewood |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books |
| Chapter | 3 |
| Pages | 56-72 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-80539-684-0 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-1-80539-683-3 |
| Publication status | Published - 31 Jan 2025 |