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M. Arnhof, S. Häuplik-Meusburger:
"Interdisciplinary Workshop on Human Habitation Concepts for Interstellar Space Travel";
Talk: 69th International Astronautical Congress, Bremen; 10-01-2018 - 10-05-2018; in: "Proceedings of IAC 2018", https://iafastro.directory/iac/proceedings/IAC-18/ (2018), Paper ID IAC-18,E1,4,10,x46685, 11 pages.

Crewed interstellar spacetravel as the biggest what-if of future human spaceflight confronts us withchallenges of time, distance and life support, and raises significant human factor issues (e.g. isolation andconfinement, radiation, weightlessness) which are exacerbated by mission duration. Yet, with the depar-ture from the well-known and familiar, developing human habitation concepts for interstellar spacetravelcan also serve as a way to foster creativity and out of the box thinking: the topic provides challengingproblems to solve and very few exemplary projects. Additionally, the subject´s high level of complexityrequires the willingness to depart from traditional disciplinary territories.The presented work will give an insight on the lessons learned from an interdisciplinary workshop for PhDand master students (aerospace engineering, space architecture, biology, medicine, physics, etc.) fromEuropean universities aiming at stimulating the student´s creativity and generating ideas for fully self-sustaining space habitats that have complex ecosystems, simulated gravity, and could potentially preservehuman life in Outer Space for several generations.It provides insight with regard to the potential benefits of interdisciplinary approaches at the very begin-ning of design processes, problems that might arise when working on all scales from the "overall picture"to small details, and an evaluation of the innovations suggested.