Ariel Ekblaw

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1,219 appearances 5 recordings 4 series first heard May 2025 last heard 26 Jun

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Short Wave · Could Architecture In Space Make A Greener Earth? · 16 Dec 2025 podcast

We're about to go back to the ISS in early 2026.

Exactly.

Prototypes that help us test the algorithm of self-assembly, test the energy required to pulse through the magnets, because in addition to coming together, it's a self-correcting system.

So the tiles have essentially like AI built into the pieces themselves, into the hardware.

Right.

And they can decide if they bonded correctly.

And we're really inspired by biomimetic systems, like how proteins and DNA self-assembles in the body and can correct itself.

It's both.

So I went on this amazing trip, and we had an incredible opportunity to help restore ancient Roman mosaics.

And we learned about tesserae, these tiny little tiles that make up the bigger mosaic.

And I came home incredibly inspired to make my work fit in that word.

Yes.

It's a terribly tortured acronym.

Never going to do this again.

Exactly.

You got to lean into the nerd dub.

So it stands for Tessellated Electromagnetic Space Structures for the Exploration of Reconfigurable Adaptive Environments.

Tell me that's too much.

I know it is.

Yeah.

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