Marie-Pier Boucher

Programs: CCIT; Graduate Appointment at Faculty of Information
Specialization: Media Studies, STS, Biotechnology, Health, Environment, Outer space, Urban Studies and Architectural Design, Art History and Communication Studies

Dr. Boucher’s research focuses on the design of habitats for sustaining life in extreme environments. She is currently working on a book project, which looks at the relationship between health, architectural design and perceptual activity in a range of extreme environments (physical and symbolic) to examine how the changes in direction and orientation induced by levitation and microgravity can inform the design of Earth-based habitats. She is also working on an umbrella project, Interplanetary Habitation: The Earth, the Moon, Mars and the City, which investigates the socio-technical future of planetary life in relation to growing concerns over health and biotechnology, mobility and artificial intelligence.

Research:
Dr. Marie-Pier Boucher’s research focuses on the design of habitats for sustaining life in extreme environments. She is currently working on a book project, which looks at the relationship between health architectural design and perceptual activity in a range of extreme environments (physical and symbolic) to examine how the changes in direction and orientation induced by levitation and microgravity can inform the design of Earth-based habitats. She is also working on an umbrella project, Interplanetary Habitation: The Earth, the Moon, Mars and the City, which investigates the socio-technical future of planetary life in relation to growing concerns over health and biotechnology, mobility and artificial intelligence. Under this umbrella project, she is developing 2 sub projects: (1) Space and the City, which looks at the impact of outer space science and technology on urbanism and architecture and; (2) Space Feminism, which investigates the power of feminism to actualize a redistribution of power in space exploration.