Space Business Podcast #124 - Johannes Torpe: A Designer domesticating Space
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Show Notes
Johannes Torpe is a well-known Danish designer who, among many other things, was the Creative Director at Bang & Olufsen, and once owned a space-themed night club called NASA. He is passionate about what he calls “domesticating space” – bringing space closer to people at large, beyond the existing space community. We met at Spacecom in Orlando earlier this year and finally had a chance to schedule a podcast episode to talk about all this. Enjoy!
https://www.johannestorpe.com/
Golden space suit event: https://www.designindaba.com/videos/conference-talks/danish-designer-johannes-torpe-power-design-create-universes
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Timestamps
0:00 Intro
2:36 Johannes's background
6:05 Golden space suit entry
11:15 Connecting people to the Space Renaissance
18:42 Domesticating Space
21:50 The Space Mountain Case and Space "Retroism"
27:22 Potential ways of inspiring people
31:06 Hotels & Resorts
34:15 "Edutainment"
37:07 NASA Nightclub
42:36 Space & the arts
47:57 Current space-related projects
53:49 Sci-fi