Professor Guilherme Moura Fagundes (Department of Anthropology/FFLCH-USP) participated in an international workshop of the Sanctuary on the Moon project, an initiative sponsored by NASA and UNESCO aimed at creating a long-term archive to be deposited on the Moon, composed of 24 sapphire discs containing information about humanity's scientific and cultural heritage.
As a result of this participation, the professor published the essay "Archiving Life in the Age of Collapse" in piauí magazine, presenting the behind-the-scenes aspects of the project and discussing the anthropological and political implications of archiving "memories of Earth" on a more-than-terrestrial scale.
Read the article: https://piaui.folha.uol.com.