Publications — Anastasia Prosina

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“If you think about luxurious experiences, you want to make sure people feel okay. Sleep quality is something astronauts speak very openly about.”
Anastasia Prosina, in Scientific American — “How to Vacation in Space” 2026

Our definition of space architecture

“Space architecture is the theory and practice of designing and building inhabited environments in outer space. It borrows from multiple forms of niche architecture to accomplish the task of ensuring human beings can live and work in space.”
Originally given in an interview with Discover magazine, and now cited on Wikipedia as a definition of the field.

Selected Coverage

Upcoming

Prosina, Anastasia. Space Wombism: The Next Billion Years of Human Shelter. Foreword by Frank White, author of The Overview Effect.
Upcoming talk — Space Architecture at the Stanford d.school forthcoming

Academic Papers

Ekblaw, A., Prosina, A., Newman, D. & Paradiso, J. "Space Habitat Reconfigurability: TESSERAE platform for self-aware assembly." 30th IAA Symposium on Space and Society, 2019 — 10 citations
Summit, S., Prosina, A., et al. "Training Safer Spacewalks." SpaceCHI, MIT Media Lab forthcoming 2026
Prosina, A. Kepler Institute — "What's Space Architecture?" Spring 2021
Basu, T., Prosina, A. & Uraz, A. "Redesign of Salyut Station for Dual-Use of Research and Tourism." 30th IAA Symposium on Space and Society, 2019
Cohen, M. & Prosina, A. "Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion House as a Paradigm for a Space Habitat." Proceedings of ASCEND 2020 — 1 citation
Prosina, A. "Algae-Based Printer Ink As the Way to Foster In-Situ Resource Utilization in Habitation Structures." ASCEND 2020, 4048 2020
Prosina, A. "Do More with Less: Efficient Furniture for Mars." University of Houston 2019
Prosina, A. "A Settlement Strategy for Mars." Novosibirsk State University of Architecture, Design, and Arts 2018

Acknowledgments

"Concepts and Models of Design for Urbanization of Space" (Koç), Space Environment and International Politics 2024
Ekblaw, A. & Coleman, C. Into the Anthropocosmos. MIT Press, 2021 — 3 citations
"A Methodology for the Systematic Review of Space Architecture Concepts" (Rollock, DeLatte, Ekblaw), International Conference on Environmental Systems 2023
"Accessibility on a Lunar Base — Feasibility Study" (Sattler, et al.), OSF 2023
"What Do We Give Up and Leave Behind" (Häuplik-Meusburger, Cohen) 2020

Awards

Parabolic flight award, sponsored by MIT / Aurelia Institute / AIAA Space Architecture Technical Committee 2024
Payload Pioneer 30 Under 30, Payload 2023
Best 2019/2020 AIAA Space Architecture Technical Committee Professional Paper Award 2019
First Prize, Annual International Exhibition of Undergraduate Thesis — "An Urbanization Scheme for the Martian Environment", Volgograd, Russia 2018
People's Choice, Eleven Magazine Marstopia Architecture Competition — Desert Snowflake 2018
Honorable Mention, Eleven Magazine Marstopia Architecture Competition — Peristalsis Project 2018

Jury & Advisory Roles

Contributor to the Space Architecture Decadal Survey, AIAA 2025
ASCEND AIAA 2023 — Space Architecture Session Chair 2023
NASA Human Research Program — Workshop Jury Member (3×)
Jury member, Hong Kong Drone Port, Non Architecture (partnered with BIG — Bjarke Ingels Group) — alongside Liam Young (speculative architect & filmmaker) & Irene Luque Martin (MLA+) 2022
Space Settlement Entrepreneur Competition Mentor & Adviser, STEM-E Youth Career Development Program 2020
Space Architecture expert for #DesignYourHabitat, SciArt Exchange 2020

Professional Memberships

Space Architecture Technical Committee, AIAA (SATC AIAA) — Member since 2021
Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium (LSIC) — Member since 2024
International Conference on Environmental Systems (ICES) — Paper Reviewer, Space Architecture 2019–2022
ASCEND — Paper Reviewer, Space Architecture since 2022
Themed Entertainment Association (TEA) — Member 2021–2023
The Science & Entertainment Exchange — Consultant 2019–2022
SpaceArchitect.org — Member since 2017

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