As humanity expands beyond Earth, we face a rare opportunity: to imagine, from scratch, how life, learning, and community might be built in space. Sustaining life off-world will require more than engineering. It demands new ways of thinking about governance, care, and belonging.

This series is a bold experiment in planetary learning.

We invite small, interdisciplinary cohorts of students to use their academic disciplines as launchpads to prototype the building blocks of society — from legal frameworks to cultural rituals. The goal is to surface insights that not only shape space futures, but also help us address complex challenges here on Earth.

Designed especially for students outside the space sector — particularly from the humanities, arts, and social sciences — the series begins with a pilot: Rethinking Space Law and Governance.

Before we build habitats or launch missions, we must ask how decisions are made, and who gets to decide. As legal norms lag behind the pace of space activity, this pilot explores new governance models imagined from first principles rather than inherited precedent.

We begin with two unexpected fields: jazz, which models improvisation, trust, and relational coordination; and regenerative systems, which center care, cycles, and long-term interdependence. Each design lab brings graduate students together to craft legal ideas rooted in these logics — opening up new, life-affirming possibilities for how we govern beyond Earth.
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