- What kinds of Earthly reliances and restrictions do we take for granted?
- How might Earthly life expand beyond the Earth?
- What notions about life do we assume because of our shared planetary heritage?
Engage with imaginative storytelling, build exciting new prototypes, and curate a collaborative vision of Life without Earth
Interdisciplinary students and faculty will engage with questions related to the interconnections between life as we know it and this planet we still call home. We will also imagine possibilities for futures in space alongside other literary, philosophical, scientific, social, and cultural attempts to unravel our entangled concepts of life and Earth. In collaboration with faculty and experts, students curate, design, and produce an exhibit of their inquiry’s final outcomes to advance the public’s understanding as we consider what life without Earth will look like.Impact Outcomes
Interdisciplinary students and faculty in the Life without Earth Lab engaged with questions related to the interconnections between life as we know it and this planet we still call home. They also imagined possibilities for futures in space alongside other literary, philosophical, scientific, social, and cultural attempts to unravel our entangled concepts of life and Earth.
In collaboration with faculty and experts, students curated, designed, and produced websites that detailed their inquiry’s final outcomes to advance the public’s understanding as we consider what life without Earth will look like.
View their final impact outcomes here
Enrollment Information
Spring 2020: Monday and Wednesday, 12:15pm-1:30pm and Monday 10:45am-12pm*
Ross Blakely Hall, Room 171
- Humanities Lab HUL 394
- Arts, Media, and Engineering AME 394
- Fulton School of Engineering FSE 394
- Earth and Space Exploration SES 394
Instructional Team

Joshua Loughman
Humanitarian Engineering Design/Energy and Sustainability Fulton School of Engineering Life Without Earth
Spring 2020

Adam Nocek
Director of Center for Philosophical Technologies School of Arts Media and Engineering Life Without Earth
Spring 2020