Agenda of the Meeting

The preliminary program will be the following, which also reflect a possible layout for the whitepaper:
  • Day 1- A/Playground: (I) Scales, causal structure and uncertainties in the current cosmological paradigm. B/Powers: (II) Epistemology of past, present and future potential footprint inc. state of the art on II.a) cross-contamination II.b) signaling II.c) others (time capsules, debris, trash, Kessler effect, alteration of orbits). (III) Discussion on the ontology of powers.
  • Day 2-Ethics: (I) Review of existing ethical propositions. (II) Exploration of potentially relevant ethical doctrines. (III) Exploration of the scope of potential outcomes within the Playground/Powers paradigm. (III) Evaluation of III.a) importance, III.b) urgency, III.c) tractability, III.d) underassessment and III.e) underappreciation, of the question of large scales space ethics.
  • Day 3-A/Governance: (I) Review of the agents shaping space governance, and the challenges of New Space/rising powers. (II) B/Discussion: (I) pertinence and modalities of a long term workgroup on large scale space ethics ? (II) Necessity to empower global governance/public awareness with the question ? C/Strategies: discussion on the strategies to achieve such goals.