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All Women Crew Celebrating Women in Art, Astronautics and Astronomy a Leonardo/Olats Workshop March 20 - 21 2020 (by invitation only) organised by Annick Bureaud with the contribution of Ewen Chardronnet and Susmita Mohanty			in partnership with FEMeeting

avec le soutien // with the support of


All Women Crew participated in the exhibition Con(tacto)/ August 15th - September 15th curated by Marta de Menezes at Cultivamos Cultura in Saõ Luis Odemira, Portugal

Information on the participants and their presentation by clicking on their portrait.

Annick Bureaud Leonardo/Olats Director Art critic and Curator	Yulia Akisheva Cockpit Operations Research Engineer at Alten Event Manager of SG[France]2020-Our Giant Leap at SGAC	Hélène Ben Aïm Drieux PhD Engineer - Open Innovation Project Manager - CNES

Fabiane M. Borges Doctor in Clinic Psychologyst - PUC/SP & Post-phd fellow at PGETE/INPE / Director of Space/Art Platform SACI-E/INPE/Brazil	Marie-Pier Boucher Assistant professor of Media Studies at the University of Toronto, Canada	Kitsou Dubois French Choreographer, Dance Researcher, Artistic Director of "Ki Productions "

Félicie d'Estienne d'Orves Artist	Elizaveta Glukhova Researcher and media artist	Ségolène Guinard Ph.D Candidate in Philosophy, University Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis

Michelle Hanlon Associate Director, Air and Space Law Program, University of Mississippi School of Law	Flis Holland Artist, Finnish Academy of Fine Arts	Dalila Honorato InArts Lab - Ionian University

Adriana Knouf Artist/Writer/Xenologist; Assistant Professor of Art + Design, Northeastern University	Minna Långström Artist filmmaker, MFA	Aoife van Linden Tol Artist, Vice Chair ITACCUS

Daniela de Paulis Artist, Astronomers Without Borders	Mirjana Povic Ethiopian Space Science and Technology Institute (ESSTI) Assistant professor and Head of Astronomy and Astrophysics Research and Development Division, Ethiopian Space Science and Technology Institute, Ethiopia Associate researcher, Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia, Spain Honorary professor, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Uganda	Neha Satak CEO, Astrome Technologies Private Limited

INTRODUCTION

2019 Apollo 50th anniversary has been the opportunity to dig out from the closets of history all the women that took part in the programme and contributed to the success of the Moon Landing.
2019 is also the year that saw an "all female EVA" (Extra Vehicular Activity) cancelled because there were not enough EVA space suits...suited for women onboard the ISS ...
An "all women crew" still makes the headlines when it would never occur to any journalist's mind to write about an "all men crew aboard the ISS"...
Astronomy is not doing any better that is still hugely male dominated although more and more women are starting breaking the glass ceiling.

Teaming up with the FEMeeting initiated by Marta de Menezes and Dalila Honorato in Portugal in 2018, Leonardo/Olats proposes the 2020 Leonardo Space Art, Science and Culture Workshop focusing on women. FEMeeting's main purpose is to disseminate projects that are being carried out by women in order to contribute (a) to the development of research methodologies in art and science and (b) to the development of collaboration strategies that can increase knowledge sharing and bring communities together.

This workshop does not intend to discuss the "role" of women in astronautics and astronomy nor to try to define what a "feminine approach" to space could be. Rather, totally inline with the FEMeeting, it is to give the floor to women that work in those fields be they artists, scientists, cultural players, ingeniers and in so doing making them visible and, possibly, imagining a more balanced and non patriarcal vision of/for space.

The "All Women Crew" 2020 workshop had to be cancelled. We are working to reprogramme it in 2021.

However doing things remotely is rather banal in the space activities. This is why we have decided to produce the series of podcasts as a collective remotely built contribution by all of us to share with all of you.

PROGRAMME

LIST OF ABSTRACTS

PODCASTS

ALL WOMEN CREW ON THE MOON

As the participants to the workshop could not meet in Paris, they decided instead to go to the Moon using Daniela de Paulis Visual Moonbounce technology.
Moonbounce image:
Daniela de Paulis (IU0IDY) initiated and developed the Visual Moonbounce technology as an artistic process in 2009, with the technical support of the CAMRAS team (PI9CAM) based at the Dwingeloo radio telescope in The Netherlands. Over the years the technology and methodology she developed has become increasingly popular amongst international radio operators. For the "All Women Crew" project, she has been collaborating with fellow radio operators Daniel Gautschi (HB9Q), Nando Pellegrini (I1NDP) and Mario Armando Natali (I0NAA).
Poster design by Quentin Aurat