"We are all astronauts" is the motto of an interdisciplinary and international conference being hosted by the Institute for European Art History of Heidelberg University from 22 to 25 October 2015. Junior researchers in collaboration with renowned experts will analyse the changes the image of the space traveller and explorer has undergone since 1968 and what its future may hold. American architect and thinker Richard Buckminster Fuller coined the term "Spaceship Earth" in the title of his book, in which he compared the earth to a spaceship with limited resources travelling through space. ...
